Avant Garb Mascots & Costumes

Avant Garb Mascots & Costumes Mascot Makers extraordinaire! We're with you from idea to mascot design & mascot creation. We had to invent how to do it. We're still inventing. We think BIG!

We started making mascots in a Berkeley CA garage before they were even a thing. We design & build small-batch, artisanal mascot characters - hand crafted in our light-filled studio in Indianapolis. We are with you from the 1st spark of an idea through design conception to completion of mascot from the top of the head to the soles of the feet ...and beyond! We can advise you on auditions, performe

r training, strategic planning for the mascot program and revenue streams. Should you want illustrations of your mascot for holidays, special games, events, we do that too! We are full service mascot everything!

The food can needs an armhole. Making the FDA’s Nutrition Label mascots. This kind of sewing requires bravery & MUSCLE! ...
01/14/2025

The food can needs an armhole. Making the FDA’s Nutrition Label mascots. This kind of sewing requires bravery & MUSCLE!

I'd forgotten about this little webpage I started a few years ago - Artist in the Materials world.I think I'm going to p...
01/12/2025

I'd forgotten about this little webpage I started a few years ago - Artist in the Materials world.

I think I'm going to pay a little more attention to it. Here's the link:

I've been thinking about 5th grade since I was on an NCAA Learning Initiative Zoom call with a 5th grade class. I spoke as part of the Creativity & Sport segment. My business, Avant Garb Mascots is very closely tied to creativity in the world of sport. Mascots & sports are allies.

A pancreas! …and a muscle, a triglyceride & and HDL. People had their pictures taken with their favorite Body Part. Ther...
01/10/2025

A pancreas!

…and a muscle, a triglyceride & and HDL.

People had their pictures taken with their favorite Body Part. There were Body Part plushes too!

When a mascot shows up, you know you’re going to have fun!



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Lions Tigers & Bears! Oh my! A little homage to the Wizard of OZ.Thinking about getting a mascot for your brand, your t...
01/08/2025

Lions Tigers & Bears!
Oh my!
A little homage to the Wizard of OZ.

Thinking about getting a mascot for your brand, your team? your school?

Let's connect Avant Garb Mascots & Costumes

I guess it is all over the internet.We (the mascot mavens ) were impressed by Tubby's moves. When we learned Flavor Flav...
01/06/2025

I guess it is all over the internet.

We (the mascot mavens ) were impressed by Tubby's moves. When we learned Flavor Flav was the performer - we knew why. Flavor Flav has moves. A great performer and a great mascot performer too!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/flavor-flav-plays-dukes-mayo-bowl-mascot-helps-give-minnesota-coach-pj-fleck-mayo-bath-after-win/ar-AA1wXM1f

Thank you Duke's. Creating Tubby was an absolutely delight. xo jennifer & the mascot mavens.

Flavor Flav was revealed as the celebrity playing 'Tubby' the Duke's Mayonnaise mascot in postgame

The Duke's Mayo Bowl our favorite - Tubby, the Unhinged Mayonnaise Jar - one of our mascots - makes a few appearance thr...
01/04/2025

The Duke's Mayo Bowl our favorite - Tubby, the Unhinged Mayonnaise Jar - one of our mascots - makes a few appearance throughout the video. Gotta love the Mayo mascot!

https://youtu.be/s5Iwh77nXq8?si=_4VrKp5GYsIJVEXW
Avant Garb Mascots

Tar Heels. Mountaineers. And a wholeeeee lot of mayo. Watch our 2023 recap video and follow Duke's Mayo and Duke's Mayo Bowl on socials for more mayo-hem.

01/01/2025

We specialize in adorable. Here's a little bit of adorable for the New Year.

Thinking about getting a mascot in 2025?

Get in touch - Cheers! the Mascot Mavens

We’ve made a few Soybean mascots over the years. Bennie The Bean was the 1st!
12/28/2024

We’ve made a few Soybean mascots over the years. Bennie The Bean was the 1st!

Making mascots is more than sewing fuzz & shaping foam. Here’s a tool rack in the mascot studio.
12/28/2024

Making mascots is more than sewing fuzz & shaping foam. Here’s a tool rack in the mascot studio.

Lovrlovelobe the tree. The lights, the star.
12/27/2024

Lovrlovelobe the tree. The lights, the star.

Yes - we create GIANT Street Puppets, as well as marvelous mascots. Here are "The Multitude of Angels" and some ornament...
12/23/2024

Yes - we create GIANT Street Puppets, as well as marvelous mascots.

Here are "The Multitude of Angels" and some ornaments & trees. They walk, wiggle and twirl down 2nd Street in Maysville, KY, every year - Our creations, with a lot of help from the wonderful children and adults at First Presbyterian Church, Maysville, KY.

Happy, happy holidays xo the Mascot ( & puppet) Mavens at Avant Garb - Big Mascots, Big Costumes & Awfully Big Puppets

One day, Fisher-Price called. They needed a few Little People mascots. It was a pleasure to bring them to life. ...
12/10/2024

One day, Fisher-Price called. They needed a few Little People mascots. It was a pleasure to bring them to life.

We try them on before we send them out -
11/12/2024

We try them on before we send them out -

We made a stylish fish -
10/31/2024

We made a stylish fish -

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We specialize in adorable. Here's a little bit of adorable for the New Year. Thinking about getting a mascot in 2025? Get in touch - Cheers! the Mascot Mavens #mascot #mascotmakers #mascotdesign #avantgarbmascots #stfrancischildrenshospital #adorablemascots #mascotcostume

We designed it and brought it to life. We made a truck - for TMAF - Trucking Moves America Forward. We call these videos, "Ooooo & Awe videos. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5vlqb89zEvs #avantgarbmascots #TMAF #mascot #truck #avantgarbmascots #TruckingMovesAmericaForward #mascotmaker #mascot #avantgarbmascots

We make some mighty fine beverage mascots. Here are 3 - just before we packed them up & shipped them to a hockey team where they will be beer-on-ice! #mascot #hockey #beveragecan #beercan #budweiser #mascotmaker #mascotdesign #avantgarbmascots #beer #marketing

So this is what we did last week. We made some Big, Angel Parade Puppets for the Maysville, KY Twilight Christmas parade. Here's a little glimpse. #Angels #ParadePuppets #Puppets #parade #christmasparade #mascots #avantgarbmascots #angels #avantgarbmascots

Jazz paws - LEO the Labs’s paws. #mascots #LEAD @LEAD #lifeinthemascotstudio

One of our latest mascots. The Bruin for Brighton HS in Rochester, NY - this is one of our “ooo & awww” videos. What do you think of this one? #avantgarbmascots #mascotmavens #mascots #MascotDesign #brandambassador #mascot #schoolmascot #brightonhs #bruin

The Multitudes of Angels - one of our Big Puppet projects. The holidays are here! #Christmas #Parade #Puppets #avantgarbmascots

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We’re Mascot Makers!

Mascot are Brand Awareness Monsters

Way back in 1986, there was a teensy, weensy chocolate cookie company in Berkeley, California. They had rented half of a table in the farthest corner of the San Francisco Dessert and Pastry Convention.

We made them a Giant, Chocolate cookie mascot.

The BIG, Cookie mascot was on the front page of the San Fransisco Chronicle.