About Us: Next State
Next State offers custom fabric printing. We are based in Melbourne Australia
A bit more about us: We are a custom fabric printer and product manufacturer. We can custom print and make fabric products featuring your artwork.
Print fabric on demand with a one metre minimum and fast turnaround time. We currently ship to Australia and New Zealand.
You can print your own fabric design or select from our Artwork Library and print beautiful artist designed fabric.
Next State is empowered by the latest in digital textile printing technology.
Services
- Custom fabric printing
- Custom printed and made-up fabric products. Our Print and Make includes tea towels, totes, napkins, tablecloths, cushions. Perfect merchandise products for a one-off or your next market, event, exhibition.
- Print your artwork on fabric
- Print designer fabric from our Artwork Library
- We can create an artwork for you or support you with file management to get you file ready for print.
- You can supply polyester fabric for printing.
Our customers
Everyone that has a creative vision is welcome at Next State. With our one-metre minimums we work with first time textile explorers right through to advanced wizards. We enjoy working on all print projects big and small and happily work with students, textile, fashion and surface designers, interior designers, artists, schools, universities, galleries, government bodies, sewists, even organisers and all lovely folks with an idea. We are always available to contact for anyone who wants to know more about us and what we do.
Who we work with
We build strong relationships with our customers. Our level of care and love for our work has allowed us the privilege to partner with Australia’s best designers, galleries, art centers and museums. We have worked with many of our customers for over eight years and always deliver. We can work to tight timeframes and problem solve as a team to get the best outcome for every job.
The Aha moment
While lounging back on a wooden chair on a beach in Vietnam, newly married couple Chole Kerr and Geoff Spink were on honeymoon and decided that year they would begin the dream of starting a textile print company. Mojito in one hand and pen in the other they jotted down all the ideas about us, and of what Next State could be.
Chole came from a fashion background and was working in textile print and manufacturing. She identified the lack of accessible, affordable printing for short run customization in Australia. With extensive experience in local manufacturing Chole understood the industry demands and the way customers and people need to be treated and supported by their suppliers.
Geoff, having worked in corporate global business and recently transitioning into web and software development, identified the key role technology can play in achieving brilliant results on small scales. Geoff’s digital literacy and business skills brings process and function to a manufacturing environment.
As partners in life and business Chole and Geoff’s unique skillsets set forth to launch Next State in 2014. Fast forward to the present day and two factory moves, two babies, hundreds of thousands of meters printed and many beautiful people met, the journey is just getting started.
Next State is what it is and continues to evolve further because of the brilliantly talented and driven in-house team that bring their A-Game every day. The contribution, ideas, implementations, innovations, and passion of the Next Sate team through the years makes them the true creators of this company.
About us and our Vision
Our vision is to change the way we consume and connect with textiles and products.
We believe in customisation for individual needs and creating short runs to service specific requirements. We believe in local manufacturing and ethical supply chains, and having a connection to the people who produce textiles and the environment in which they do it. We believe in mass customisation to service dream outcomes instead of mass production for basic satisfaction.
We believe in using technology to empower design and make it attainable to anyone with a creative vision. Design in textiles is to be celebrated and shared by all as one of the oldest crafts is the world, we feel privileged to be a part of the technological movement in the industry.
We are here for you and to listen and guide you on your textile journey and to share our knowledge and expertise because we are the digital textile print and product manufacturing experts.