Welcome to Cornflower

Cornflower is a leading specialist in bespoke product ranges for museums, galleries, and visitor attractions across the UK and beyond. With over 26 years of experience, we understand what sells and work closely with our customers to develop best-selling, competitively priced ranges.

We believe bespoke retail is the lifeblood of museum shops. Products designed with a collection or mission in mind become powerful ambassadors for the institution - exclusive, meaningful, and memorable.

Thanks to advances in digital printing, custom products can now be the norm rather than the exception. Visitors want to take home something that reflects their experience - and when they do, they become ambassadors themselves, sharing the museum’s story through their purchase.

At Cornflower, we’re proud to lead the way in this space. The UK excels at museum retail, and we’re proud to help set that global standard with creativity, quality, and attention to detail.

Our experienced designers ensure your brand and collection are faithfully represented in the final product. We can develop striking ranges using your imagery, or, if none exists, work with you through our experienced studio and network of artists and illustrators, to create commercially appealing designs. 

Unlike typical design agencies, we understand the production process across diverse product types, helping you avoid ideas that are unworkable or too expensive. Our approach begins with examining your target audience and ends with artwork that’s not only visually effective but also practical to produce. We call this "Design for Production" - a method that builds long-term trust. Many customers rely on us year after year for their core ranges and exhibition lines; some have partnered with us for over 26 years.

“Working with Cornflower is always a pleasure. Their team helps us bring our ideas to life with thoughtful illustrations and creative input. The results have been fantastic, and we now have multiple ranges that we’re really proud of."

Isle of Man Transport 

We’re passionate about creating beautiful, high-quality retail products designed specifically for our market. While we work with a trusted network of specialist trade suppliers to bring you the best and widest range of products, we’re also proud to have our own in-house production space. This means we can offer competitive prices, quicker turnaround times, and greater flexibility when it comes to bringing your ideas to life.

Our workshop is equipped with state-of-the-art machinery, allowing us to develop, innovate and produce an ever-growing range of unique and carefully crafted products.  Whether it’s bespoke stationery finished in our in-house bindery or beautiful wooden gifts inspired by your collections, cut and engraved on our large-format laser, we take pride in ensuring everything we make is finished to the highest standard.

We value quality and source our materials as sustainably as possible, in line with our FSC® and ISO 14001 certifications, to minimise our impact on the environment.  We make sure every item that leaves our warehouse is something we’d be proud to see on your shelves. 

"The quality of the finished products is very high and several of the bestselling lines across our shops were designed and made by Cornflower."

Curating Cambridge Ltd

Our experienced product assembly team is responsible for ensuring your products are sale ready: whether that be packaging prints beautifully, assembling packs of magnets, or barcoding products. We are perfectionists when it comes to the finished product, always ensuring you receive the highest quality goods.  We then ensure timely dispatch and shipping so that you receive your beautiful bespoke products whenever you need them.  This is particularly important with exhibition merchandise, which is a particular specialism of ours.

"Throughout the decade the British Library Shop has been working with Cornflower, we have been consistently impressed with the quality of products, a commitment to personable service, and their swift delivery, ensuring our projects stay dependably on track."

The British Library