30 Back to School Design Ideas You Need to Try!

About this video

The creator presents 30 low-competition back-to-school design ideas with prompt ideas (promised in the video description), found using a mix of the Amazon search bar, Google Search, Etsy search, and paid tools, always double-checking trademarks and copyrights. He says, as his own track record, that he has been doing this over eight years, has sold over $500,000 in royalties (his claim) and over 125,000 products. His validation method is consistent: check search-result counts (many examples land in the low hundreds), then read the Best Sellers Rank over the last 30 days for a downward, consistent-selling trend rather than a single spike. Ideas include ‘Game On’ plus a grade and a sport (baseball, football, basketball), ‘Hello [grade]’ with pencils, apples and backpacks, an axolotl ‘ready to ask a lot of questions’ pun across grades, a dabbing pencil, sea-creature and duck designs, ‘Game Over back to school,’ a raccoon element he shows being reused across 4th of July, back to school and potentially Halloween, retro ‘welcome back to school’ (one listing at about 43K BSR, which he estimates means over five sales a day), ‘ready to tackle [grade]’ football, school bus squad, lunch lady, kindergarten wildflower, ‘school custodian of tiny humans,’ school counselor, and a dabbing first-grader. He generates variations in Ideogram AI, warning that outputs need cleanup (extra hands, spelling). Two cautions stand out: a game-controller design that looks like a PlayStation controller is risky, and ‘we are hungry for learning’ shirts copying the caterpillar from the popular children’s book are, in his words, playing with fire. He closes by pitching his research vault, which he says delivers 20 low-competition niches weekly.

Key takeaways

• Validate back-to-school ideas by pairing low search-result counts with a BSR that trends steadily downward over the last 30 days.
• Build one concept across every grade level — kindergarten through eighth grade multiplies a single winning idea.
• Cross a grade phrase with a passionate hook: sports, axolotls, dabbing characters, ducks or the trending goose.
• Target school staff as well as kids — bus drivers, lunch ladies, custodians, counselors and teachers are separate sub-niches.
• Use AI (he uses Ideogram) for layouts and inspiration, but clean up errors and never copy protected artwork like the famous storybook caterpillar or a console controller.

Episode details: published July 27, 2025 · 28:29 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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