About us
The story behind Gaming Merch, the artwork on every piece, and the guy who draws it.
Meet Peter
I'm Peter, I'm 32, and I have been drawing for as long as I have been gaming. Which is a long time. I was eight when I first picked up a controller, at my friend's house, on a console his parents definitely should have been watching more closely.
Art turned into the actual job. Art school, then years of illustration and design work for other people's brands. Good work, mostly. None of it mine.
Then the VI trailer landed and I watched it about forty times in a row. That pink and orange sky. Palm trees against the water. Neon on wet asphalt at 2am. I stopped working on client stuff for a week and just drew it.
Why I started this
My setup looked like everyone else's. Black desk, black keyboard, grey console, grey controller. I was spending hundreds of hours in the most colourful game ever made, then looking down at a desk with no colour on it at all.
So I went looking. What I found was posters of fan art on one end and stickers that curled up at the corners within a week on the other. Nothing I actually wanted to put on my desk.
I drew my own instead. The controller shell came first. Then a lamp, a keycap set, a desk mat, posters. Friends came over, saw the setup and asked where I bought it. That question, asked enough times, is the entire reason this store exists.
It starts on paper
Every piece starts as a drawing, not as a product. I sketch the scene first and work out what it should live on second. Always that way round.
That matters more than it sounds. It is why the sunset on a shell lines up across both halves, and why the keycaps read as one picture instead of 68 separate squares. One drawing, cut up and laid back down.
Most scenes never make it past the paper. The ones that do get redrawn five or six times before anybody else sees them.
Why Gaming Merch?
Original art. Every scene is drawn from scratch, in the mood of a world we all love, which is also the only way to make something worth putting on your desk for years.
Made for the setup, not for the shelf. This is gear you use every day, so it has to survive every day. Real materials, proper printing, and a three year guarantee behind it, because a thing that fades in four months was never worth buying.
We build the gear we wanted and could not find anywhere. That is the whole plan.
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Three year guarantee
If it breaks within three years, you get your money back
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Come see what's on the desk
Every piece in the store started as a drawing. Here's where they ended up.
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