Time Out tells you how to customise at a budget price

Beijing is the design-it-yourself capital of the world, where everything from hair ties to umbrellas can be customised for a budget price

Umbrella 50RMB from Shengcai Siwang Yinshuangchang
How to: Email your design to shengcaiys@126.com . Next-day service available.

Silica gel wristbands 260RMB for 100 from BYST
How to: Email your design to byst888@163.com . Delivery provided within the Fourth Ring Road (free for orders over 500). Minimum order of 100.

Slip-on shoes from 128RMB from Feng Guo
How to: Design an image and bring it to the shop counter. Shoes take 1-2 weeks to make (up to size 40).

Thermal mug 150RMB from Shengcai Siwang Yinshuangchang The mug changes colour when hot water is added to reveal the image
How to: Email your design to shengcaiys@126.com . Nextday service available.

Poster from 60RMB for A1 size, photo-paper quality from WayTron Printing
How to: Call or go to the shop to order. Price does not include frame. For tips on framing, see Interiors, page 26.

T-shirt 50RMB from T-shirt Go
How to: Email your design to tshirtgo@ go.com .

Polymer clay figure 388RMB from Viplus Unique Gifts
How to: Take a headshot to the stall, and then choose from a book of figures ranging from a red revolutionary guard to Obi-Wan Kenobi . Orders take 20 days to make.

Hair tie 28RMB from Liwudiy
How to: Email your design to 623469870@qq.com and call to confirm (note: we didn’t design these ones). Minimum order of ten items required.

Sign 60RMB from Beijing Qiang Zi Li
How to: Email your design to lvjq_003@yahoo.com.cn . This 1 metre by 0.5 metre cardboard sign was designed by Plastered T-shirts’ Dominic Johnson-Hill.