Festival season is finally here, and if you’re organising a music event this summer, there’s a lot to think about. From sound systems to catering, your to-do list is already huge. In today’s world, event security is a major concern – custom lanyards for music festivals are one of the best and most cost-effective security tools available to event organisers, allowing for easy visual identification whilst creating a premium keepsake attendees will wear long after the music stops.

Here’s why ordering branded festival lanyards should be at the top of your to-do list

Colour-Coded Access Control

One of the biggest challenges at any festival is managing who can go where. Artists and their crew, security teams, media teams, sponsors, VIP guests, festival staff, and general ticketholders all need access to different areas, and security teams must be able to immediately identify anyone in unauthorised areas.

Custom lanyards for music festivals make quick visual identification easy through colour coding. Assign a distinct lanyard colour to each access category and your security team can spot whether someone belongs backstage, in the VIP enclosure, or the general admission area – no need to check guest lists, a quick visual cue makes it clear who’s who.

• VIP guests – Choosing luxurious lanyards in premium colours like gold, silver and bronze can help differentiate tiers of VIP access. Our colour matching in Pantone and CMYK ensures you get the shade you’re looking for.
• Artists and performers – Choose distinctive, bold designs to get artists through access points without friction, allowing them to keep to their busy schedules without delays. · Security teams – Black is the traditional colour associated with lanyards for security teams as it carries connotations of authority and strength. We offer pre-printed security lanyards that include a safety break as standard, helping protect your team in the event of an intervention.
• Media and press – Choose a distinct colour such as red or orange to make press teams identifiable for photo pit access and press area entry. Since press teams often have close access to artists for interviews and photographs, it’s a good idea to include a badge ID holder to display their press credentials.
• General staff and volunteers – Coordinated lanyards make staff identifiable and keep everyone looking professional. You could also choose to distinguish
• different areas of staff such as catering teams, cleaning crews and general marshals.
• Medical Staff and First Aid – Green is the colour traditionally associated with first aiders, making them easily identifiable in an emergency. We offer pre-printed lanyards for first aiders to make ordering quick and simple.
• Sponsors and guests – Custom branded lanyards double as promotional exposure for corporate partners and can create an additional revenue stream by offering sponsors the opportunity to feature their logo on lanyards and in premium placements throughout the festival.

A colour-coded system simplifies personnel management at large events, keeps crowds moving, and improves overall safety and security for everyone involved.

Choosing the Right Printing Method for Your Festival Lanyards

Not all festival lanyards are the same quality, and the printing method you choose has a big effect on the appearance of your final product.

Different printing methods are better suited to different designs. We offer two options: dye sublimation and screen printing.

Dye sublimation (heat transfer printing) is the ideal choice for most festival lanyards. It produces full colour prints for complex designs and gradients, perfect for festival branding, which is often bright, colourful, and detailed. It also has a faster turnaround, which is key when you have an immovable fixed festival date and set deadlines. We also offer a 3-5 day express lanyard service for dye sublimation if you’re in a real hurry.

Screen printing is better suited to simpler designs with a limited number of solid colours. If your festival has clean, bold branding with a straightforward logo and up to 4 colours, screen printing offers sharper results with precise Pantone colour matching. It takes a little longer to produce, so plan ahead if this is your preferred option.

For festivals with vibrant, multi-coloured designs, dye sublimation is the better choice. But if you have a simple, iconic logo you want reproduced crisply with perfect colour accuracy, you might want to consider screen printing.

Considerations for Festival Lanyards

There are some important considerations when designing and ordering your festival lanyards to ensure great results:

Quantity – Be sure to account for staff, crew, VIPs, performers, media, and sponsors separately. It’s always worth ordering surplus for replacements and last-minute additions.

Design – Consider readability as well as aesthetics. If you’re using lanyards as part of a colour coding system for crowd management, your lanyards need to be bold, distinct colours to ensure performers, VIPs, crew and more are easily identifiable. Accessories – Badge holders allow ID badges and credentials to be displayed, reducing friction at checkpoints. Retractable ski pass reels are also useful for keyholders who need access to different areas throughout the day. Safety breaks reduce strangulation risks, allowing the lanyard to simply snap off if caught or grabbed – we include safety breaks as standard on all lanyards.

Accessories – Badge holders allow ID badges and credentials to be displayed, reducing friction at checkpoints. Retractable ski pass reels are also useful for keyholders who need access to different areas throughout the day. Safety breaks reduce strangulation risks, allowing the lanyard to simply snap off if caught or grabbed – we include safety breaks as standard on all lanyards.

Timeline – Summer festival season is busy, so make sure to order in advance to make sure your lanyards arrive in time. Screen printing requires each colour to be printed individually with drying time in between and takes longer. Dye sublimation lanyards can be produced in as little as 3-5 days for urgent orders, but it’s a good idea to build in extra time for design tweaks rather than leaving it all to the last minute.

Material – We offer multiple materials with different finishes including nylon and polyester. If your festival has environmental values or a green policy, we also offer rPET and bamboo sustainable lanyards for eco-conscious festivals.

Design your Custom Festival Lanyard

Custom lanyards for music festivals do far more than just hang around your neck – they serve as tools for crowd management, staff identification, brand awareness, sponsorship opportunities and long-lasting keepsakes too. Unlike that one friend or colleague still religiously wearing a faded summer music festival wristband at Christmas, a high-quality custom printed lanyard will look great and last for years.

If you’re ready to get started ordering your custom printed festival lanyards, read our step-by-step guide on how to use our personalised lanyard design tool or get started below.

If you need support, our team are available to help. Simply get in touch and we’ll be happy to guide you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Lanyards are seen across a variety of industries from offices to leisure and hospitality. Almost every workplace uses lanyards, but there’s a big difference between a plain, generic lanyard and one that’s branded with your company logo and colours. Branded lanyards reinforce your company’s professional image, strengthen brand awareness, and contribute to workplace security, and give your team a cohesive and easily identifiable look.  

So why should your business invest in custom branded lanyards? Let’s explore the benefits of custom printed lanyards. 

How Personalised Company Lanyards Create Brand Awareness  

Your staff are your best brand ambassadors! They spend 8 hours a day working for you, so they know more about your products and services than anyone and are the best people to represent your company to the public. By adding a branded lanyard to your team uniform, you help get your company in front of a wider audience in a way that doesn’t feel forced. Whenever your employees are at their desks, meeting potential clients, out on lunch, commuting, or grabbing shopping after work, they’re wearing your company logo and creating impressions of your brand.  

Cross Sector Uses for Branded Lanyards 

Branded lanyards can be used almost universally. They work across virtually every industry and business type: 

• Retail and hospitality businesses can use branded lanyards to help customers identify staff quickly for a smoother customer service experience. 

• Corporate offices may use branded lanyards to maintain a professional appearance, but also as a security feature to identify staff and control access points, which is particularly important in buildings that may host multiple offices. 

• Healthcare settings use lanyards for clear staff identification, protecting vulnerable patients and forming part of safeguarding procedures. Branded NHS lanyards help patients feel more confident in their care provider. 

• Schools and universities use branded lanyards to differentiate students, staff, and visitors. Branded lanyards for the education sector allow for access control under safeguarding policies, helping to identify anyone who shouldn’t be on site. 

• Corporate events and conferences can use branded lanyards to identify organisers, speakers, and attendees whilst also presenting an advertising opportunity for brand partners and sponsorships.  

How to Design your Custom Branded Lanyard 

Getting the most from your branded lanyards means thinking carefully about the design process to make sure your lanyard reflects your brand accurately and your logo is clear and prominent.  

We offer full colour heat transfer printing or screen printing. Heat transfer or dye sublimation works using plain white lanyards and special inks that impregnate the lanyard with dye that replicates your chosen design exactly. This type of printing is ideal for complex multicolour logos and vibrant designs and offers quick printing at the cost of some crispness and colour fidelity.  

Screen printing works best for bold, simple logos with a limited colour scheme. It takes longer to print and requires each element of your design to be printed one at a time with drying in between, but produces a clearer, sharper looking result. Screen printing works best when you have a bold design that you really want to stand out.  

Beyond dye sublimation vs screen printing, you should also consider additional lanyard accessories such as ski pass reels or ID card holders to add utility to your lanyards. 

Ready to Order Your Branded Lanyards?

Creating your branded lanyard couldn’t be easier with our personalised lanyard design tool that lets you see changes directly in the editor. Choose colours, custom text, and place your company logo then preview your design immediately. Or save your design for later and download a quote to continue when you’re ready to make a decision.  

If you need a little help, you can contact our friendly team for advice or just dive in right away if you’re ready!  

We’ve got an in-depth tutorial on how to use our personalised lanyard design tool which shows you the full process step-by-step, and our designers are available to help if you get stuck. 

Start designing your custom lanyards today or get in touch with our team for support. 

Need custom printed lanyards fast? Whether it’s for an event, employee uniforms or something else entirely, our custom lanyards spread brand awareness and make your logo instantly recognisable. Our UK-made express lanyards deliver professional full-colour designs with a fast-turnaround of just 3-5 working days using advanced heat transfer printing technology. 

Our Express Lanyard Service Explained

Our express lanyard service is designed for businesses in a hurry. Our custom printed lanyards are manufactured and dispatched within 3-5 working days. We aim to approve all artwork within 4 hours and begin production within less than one day. Using heat transfer printing technology, we can ensure a rapid printing process, delivering high-quality branded lanyards even when deadlines are tight. We manufacture our products right here in the UK, allowing us to ship to other UK destinations quickly.

We have a minimum order of just 25 pieces, making it perfect for urgent conferences, last-minute events, or emergency replacements.

Each order includes full-colour double-sided printing, free safety break, and standard setup at no extra cost.

Who Needs Express Lanyards?

Lanyards are helpful across a range of multiple sectors and are a vital part of staff uniforms! They make your teams easily identifiable improving customer trust and addressing security concerns.  

Express custom lanyards can be used in schools to improve student safety by making staff, students and visitors easily distinguishable. Schools, colleges and universities may need lanyards on a short notice at the start of terms or throughout the term for replacements.  

Other sectors that might need custom lanyards quickly include NHS, the defence and military sector, security teams, or even utilities companies who need their teams to be identifiable to customers.  

We also supply a lot of express lanyards to trade shows, corporate events and charity fundraisers where customised lanyards are usually needed on short notice to hand out for promotional purposes. In these situations, we work to your deadline to make sure the lanyards are ready in time for your event date.  

Fast Turnaround with Heat Transfer Printing

Our express printing service uses a heat transfer process – it’s the secret to our success! Unlike traditional screen printing that requires lengthy setup and drying times, heat transfer printing allows us to get to work quickly as soon as your artwork is approved.  

Heat transfer printing (sometimes called full-colour or dye sublimation) uses a combination of heat and pressure to digitally print your pattern with unmatched accuracy. It involves using heat to transform ink into a gas to impregnate plain white fabric, printing your design and your background colour simultaneously. The result is a seamless finish with vibrant colours. Because the dye is integrated with the fabric, there’s no risk of cracking like you’d see with traditional iron-on methods.  

Heat transfer printing technology allows us to deliver clear, crisp results with high quality colour. Whereas other techniques can produce grainy results, our heat transfer press always creates a clear image, so you can be sure your logo looks spectacular.  

We also print on both sides of our lanyards for maximum brand visibility!  

Whether you need event branding, staff uniforms, or promotional freebies to hand out, we work hard to keep our quality high and our customers happy regardless of any timeline pressures. 

Express Lanyard Delivery Options

We offer two express options to match your urgency requirements: 

5-Day Express Service

Our 5-day express lanyard printing service offers quick delivery, ideal for events where you need quality lanyards without waiting. Production begins the day after artwork approval with guaranteed dispatch within 5 working days.

3-Day Rush Service

Our 3-day rush lanyard printing service handles urgent situations where every day counts! Select this premium option at checkout for priority production and dispatch within just 3 working days of approval.

Both services offer the exact same high-quality service you expect from us – we never compromise on materials or craftsmanship to meet faster deadlines.

Our Express Lanyard Artwork Approval Process

Following artwork submission, our in-house design team will review your artwork/logo to make sure that it is suitable for printing.

Whilst you can upload JPEG, PNG, or even GIF files to our online lanyard designer, for the best possible printing quality we require editable PDF, EPS or AI (Adobe Illustrator) files. If you don’t have these, we have an in-house art designer who will convert your logo to the correct format. We offer this service for free, though charges may apply if you decide not to go ahead with your order.

We begin production only once artwork is approved, so for the fastest possible service, please familiarise yourself with our FAQs and follow our guidelines closely. The less time we spend at the artwork approval stage, the quicker we can put your order into production.

Getting Started With Custom Lanyard Design

Getting started with our express custom lanyards is easy! Simply head to our express lanyard page and follow the design steps. Choose your lanyard colour from our stock options (we even have a rainbow option) or add your own pantone reference, then use the design tools to position your logo and text. Next, select any additional attachments and then submit your design. Select express shipping at checkout or our 3-day rush shipping if you’re in a hurry! 

Once your design is approved, our team will produce your lanyards.  

If you have a specific deadline, please contact our team via phone or email and we can do our best to make sure your deadline is met.  

In the world of business, standing out from the crowd is absolutely crucial. Whether you’re representing a startup or a seasoned corporation, the significance of leaving a lasting impression is very important. This is where promotional lanyards step in as powerful ambassadors for your brand. As the face of your business, these customisable accessories offer a unique opportunity to showcase your logo, message, or brand identity in a practical and stylish manner.

Maximising Exposure at Events

Events are perfect for networking and brand exposure. Custom and promotional lanyards provide a tangible way to keep your brand at the forefront of attendees’ minds long after the event concludes. Consider distributing branded lanyards as part of event registration packets or goodie bags. Attendees will appreciate the practicality of having a lanyard to hold their badges, keys, or other essentials, while simultaneously becoming walking advertisements for your brand. Additionally, hosting interactive activities or giveaways tied to your lanyards can further amplify engagement and brand recall.

Just Lanyards: Your Partner in Promotional Success

At Just Lanyards, we understand the power of first impressions. With our comprehensive range of lanyard services, we empower businesses of all sizes to elevate their brand presence through premium-quality promotional lanyards. From concept to creation, our experienced team collaborates closely with clients to bring their vision to life. With fast turnaround times and competitive pricing, we ensure that every customer receives personalised attention and exceptional value.

In conclusion, promotional lanyards are not merely accessories; they are strategic tools for brand amplification and recognition. Whether you’re aiming to leave a lasting impression at trade shows, conferences, or corporate events, custom printed lanyards offer an effective and budget-friendly solution. Partner with Just Lanyards to unlock the full potential of your brand and make a lasting impact at your next event.

Contact us today to discover how Just Lanyards can help you elevate your brand presence with premium promotional lanyards tailored to your unique specifications.
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They’re the friendly pops of colour that catch your eye and make both your business, your team, and your product or service, stand out. Printed lanyards are a highly effective way of promoting your business if you know how to use them. A custom design incorporating your company name, logo, and brand colours can take your visibility to the next level. And the best part is that they’re so subtle people won’t even realise they’ve just been hit with a heavy dose of marketing.

1. Make your marketing team stand out

When you’re networking at an event, working at a fair, launching a product, or promoting one of your services, your team are flying without a tether. Away from your office, factory, shop, or whatever serves as the usual ‘hub’ of your business, it can be difficult for individuals in a sea of competition to carry any level of brand recognition.

You can go the whole hog and send them in branded shirts, but for a lot of businesses that gives the wrong impression. A lanyard, on the other hand, is subtle. Easy to spot, and very easily branded, they’re a way of gaining brand recognition while retaining a highly professional look.

Have your people wear them at mid-chest level – any lower, it’s embarrassing for people to look at them. Any higher and they will look foolish.

2. Include lanyards as gifts in your promos

When you’re putting together freebies to hand out, don’t overlook the lanyard. Everyone loves to get something for nothing, and rewarding anyone who shows an interest in your product or service is a great way to encourage them to buy it.

Lanyards are surprisingly useful, especially for busy professionals. Offering them as promotional gifts means you’re likely to be remembered, and they’re likely to be worn again. When they’re worn again, the people wearing them have effectively become ambassadors for your brand.

3. Use them to emphasise the quality of your brand

Quality lanyards worn by your team are a great statement about the standards and quality of your products and services.

For example, if you have an eco-friendly slant on your products or service, a lanyard made from sustainable materials that promotes your eco ethos makes a bold statement and will speak to your potential clientele.

4. Go international

One of the fabulous things about lanyards is their usefulness and the fact that usefulness is universal. Regardless of the country, you will find lanyards in offices and businesses everywhere, from hospitals and government buildings, to banks.

Everywhere people need to frequently show their ID, you will find lanyards.

If you’re looking to bridge international lines with your brand, lanyards are the perfect way to do it. As you’re gifting them, don’t just think local – think global.

Your lanyards are an incredibly versatile aspect of your strategy. Use them wisely, and they will pay for themselves tenfold.

We all love a freebie, right? That’s why when you are planning your marketing campaigns, gifting freebies to your loyal and potential customers makes them feel appreciated. Not only are personalised lanyards cheap, but they are also stylish, practical, and fun to wear.

At Just Lanyards, we provide a wide range of designs that can be 100% personalised to meet your specific needs. You can choose from one of our many pre-printed lanyards or design your very own. You will even have the option to upload your company logo too!

Here are some of the reasons why personalised lanyards should be in your next marketing campaign to make great gifts.

Brand Recognition

Personalised lanyards work incredibly well as a marketing gift, much more so than a business card would. To put it simply, personalised lanyards are a great way of getting free advertising. Think of it this way, how many industries and people can you think of that can make use of lanyards? Now imagine how many people they will meet every day. Pop these bright lanyards around the necks of as many people as possible and there you have it – brand visibility!

When you next have a conference or marketing event booked, there are many different ways to get people wearing your company branded lanyards. For instance, you could arrange with the event holder (if that’s not your company) to pop each attendee’s name into one of your lanyards to hand out on arrival. Additionally, if you have a stall at an event, you could hand them out to everyone who passes by or interacts with your stall.

Versatile & Practical

Not only do lanyards look incredibly stylish but they are also versatile and practical. We provide a range of different lanyard accessories from hand sanitiser bottles to ID cardholders.

Complements Other Giveaways

If you are planning to give away a bundle of promotional products, then adding a personalised lanyard to the mix would be a great idea. Lanyards make the perfect addition to give away in a bundle of office supplies, USB sticks, clothing, and so on.

Cheap Personalised Lanyards

Does your company spend a lot on marketing? A big benefit for many companies is being able to order promotional products for a good price. At Just Lanyards, our personalised lanyards are affordable for businesses who don’t want to go over the top.

Our lanyards offer a wide range of customisable options to suit any budget. With us, where you will save on pennies, you won’t be losing on quality. You can also bulk buy our lanyards to bring down your marketing costs even further.

If you are looking into personalised lanyards for your business, we provide an extensive range of different designs. All our designs can be tailored to suit your specific needs. Whether you are ordering in bulk for a big event or ordering a few for your staff, we have you covered.

Why not order the perfect marketing gift to show your appreciation to your loyal and potential customers? You can also gift them to your employees and business partners to show them too.

Looking for an effective way to market your business without a large budget? Personalised lanyards are just what you need to build brand recognition easily!

1. Choose your brand colours wisely

One really simple way to build brand recognition is to create lanyards that incorporate your company colours. You can do this with ease via our online personalisation tool, where you can select from a spectrum of colours or upload your exact brand colours by using your Pantone reference. Doing this will help to actively market your business as your staff are more likely to be recognised. Whichever way you choose to design your new lanyards, make sure to incorporate your brand colours so that they fit in well with your overall marketing.

2. Remember to add your logo

Once the base colour of your lanyard is decided, you need to personalise them. When buying lanyards for traditional identification methods, the most popular choice is often to design the lanyard with a simple label i.e ‘visitor’ or ‘staff’. However, displaying your logo is vital when working to increase brand recognition. You can easily add a logo when using our online tool, but it’s up to you to decide if you would like a repeating logo to help increase the visibility of it, or if you’d prefer to display it once along with your text to assist in identifying who the person is.

3. Wear them out and about!

So, you’ve now provided a set of impressive branded lanyards to your workforce, what’s next? Encouraging staff to wear lanyards around your place of work will give a great impression to those visiting your premises, but what about when you are out of the office? It’s good to make sure that your team are wearing branded lanyards when travelling on behalf of your business. This approach goes a long way in proving to prospective customers who you are and building trust, which is crucial for encouraging positive brand recognition. Whether you’re attending a webinar online, you’re at an event or visiting a client’s office, ask staff to wear their lanyards to help get the most return on your investment.

4. Reflect the quality of your business in your branded lanyards

Because the whole point of investing in lanyards is not only to serve as ID but also for building up brand image, it’s key that your lanyards reflect your business well. What do we mean? If you opt for low-quality lanyards, it will be obvious and reflect on your company badly. Everything your business is connected to should be high quality and professional at the very first glance; without knowing it, you could be communicating to your customer that your company takes professionalism seriously, building brand recognition with very minimal effort.

Get your business noticed with branded lanyards today. You can start designing yours using our uncomplicated online design tool now!

So, you’ve made the wise decision to get personalised lanyards for your organisation. But, in order to get the most from these custom-made accessories, follow these essential tips to ensure your lanyards are spot-on.

Personalisation choices

One of the most important things to think about when getting personalised lanyards is how to make them unique to your business or brand, in a way that will be effective and eye-catching.

Your personalised lanyards should be able to identify the people who wear them, whether by name, department or brand, so choose colours, text type and logos that are truly representative of the users or your brand image. The lanyards should be easy to read or recognise, even from a distance, for maximum impact, so keep designs, text and colours as simple as possible.

Reflect your brand

The way in which you personalise your lanyards can help to reflect who you are as a business, in subtle ways that can register with those that see them. So aside from thinking about logos and text relevant to your business, think about other key elements that describe who you are and introduce them on your lanyards. For example, if you work in a formal sector and want to exude a highly professional image, a personalised lanyard in a classic text font and a neutral colour will work wonders to evoke this kind of image. On the other hand, if your brand considers itself as fun, creative and forward-thinking, you could opt for a less formal style of font, and a more playful choice of colour combinations on the lanyard.

Think long-term

Although getting personalised lanyards created can prove a really cost-effective option for businesses, you can help to lower those all-important costs even further by ensuring your lanyards offer excellent longevity. Therefore, think about how much long-term value you’ll get from the way your lanyards will be personalised. For example, if you’re looking to undergo a major rebranding imminently, you might not get much long-term use out of personalised lanyards that reflect your current company logo. Either wait until you’ve finished rebranding, or personalise your lanyards in another way that will offer them durability.

Choose a quality provider

Because you’ll be adding text, colour or images to your lanyards to personalise them, it’s important that the end result looks good, and that the personalised printed elements are clear and sharp. For this reason, it’s especially important to choose a personalised lanyard provider with a proven track record for creating high-quality products, using effective printing methods.

Think about material choice

The beauty of getting your lanyards personalised is that, as well as deciding on colour and text, you can also choose which type of material to opt for. This is actually an important consideration when getting your lanyards professionally created, as it can have a big impact on overall costs, as well as durability. For instance, some materials are stronger and, therefore, last longer than others, so are ideal if your lanyards are going to be put through their paces on a daily basis.

If you need any more tips and advice on creating the perfect personalised lanyards, then we are the ones to turn to at Just Lanyards.