{"id":515,"date":"2025-08-13T17:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T21:20:51","slug":"what-kodaks-merch-drop-gets-right-about-branded-merch-and-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/what-kodaks-merch-drop-gets-right-about-branded-merch-and-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"What Kodak\u2019s Merch Drop Gets Right About Branded Merch and Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Amanda Hofman, Chief Swag Officer and Branded Merchandise Expert<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kodak just dropped some of the best branded merch we\u2019ve seen this year\u2014and it\u2019s got <em>everything<\/em> going for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1002\" height=\"838\" src=\"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-13-at-5.17.28-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-13-at-5.17.28-PM.png 1002w, https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-13-at-5.17.28-PM-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-13-at-5.17.28-PM-768x642.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s break it down \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t your average retro reprint.<br><strong>It\u2019s nostalgia, refined.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>vintage logos<\/strong>? On point.<br>The <strong>film-inspired color palette<\/strong>? Delicious.<br>The <strong>Super 8 energy<\/strong>? So real, you can practically hear the whirr of the projector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the real magic is in the balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The cuts are clean. The lines feel modern.<br>It doesn\u2019t scream vintage\u2014it whispers it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what smart <strong>branded merch<\/strong> should do:<br>\ud83d\udd25 Tap into memory<br>\ud83d\udd25 Feel emotionally true<br>\ud83d\udd25 Stay visually fresh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great swag doesn\u2019t just promote your brand.<br><strong>It reminds people why they loved it in the first place.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the power of <strong>nostalgia marketing<\/strong> done right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>When your <strong>custom company apparel<\/strong> tells a story\u2014one people already feel in their bones\u2014it doesn\u2019t need to shout. It connects instantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kodak Print just showed every brand how it\u2019s done:<br>Make history feel alive, wearable, and wildly relevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amanda Hofman, Chief Swag Officer and Branded Merchandise Expert Kodak just dropped some of the best branded merch we\u2019ve seen this year\u2014and it\u2019s got everything going for it. Let\u2019s break it down \ud83d\udc47 This isn\u2019t your average retro reprint.It\u2019s nostalgia, refined. The vintage logos? On point.The film-inspired color palette? Delicious.The Super 8 energy? So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotomarket.studio\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}