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Michelin × Sense2

Michelin — the French tyre giant whose Bibendum has been the most recognisable mascot in motoring since 1898 — chose Sense2 for the soft-PVC character keychains the trade hands across the counter.

Automotive icon · Mascot keychain · Soft PVC
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Michelin × Sense2. Find it. Love it. Brand it.
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WORK WE'VE LOVED
Michelin × Sense2. Find it. Love it. Brand it.
BRANDS WE LOVE · WORK WE LOVED · ACTIVITIES WE'VE LOVED

Find it. Love it. Brand it.

You bring the brief and the artwork. We make it happen. Three decades, 30,000+ orders delivered, every major Australian brand. The trusted creative partner brands return to — year after year.

THE MICHELIN × SENSE2 STORY

Michelin chose Sense2 for the Bibendum PVC keychains — the world's most famous mascot, moulded in soft rubber with his signature wink, riding home on ten thousand key rings.

The Brief

Michelin — the French tyre giant whose Bibendum has been the most recognisable mascot in motoring since 1898 — chose Sense2 for the soft-PVC character keychains the trade hands across the counter. We specified the 2D moulded rubber body, the precise black-outline registration that keeps the tyre-stack silhouette reading at keychain scale, the wink, and the polished split-ring hardware. A brand with a century of mascot equity returns to Sense2 because Bibendum has to look like Bibendum at 50 millimetres. 30 years of can-do production, 10,000+ products in the catalogue, and the partner global automotive brands return to.

The Approach

Sense2 made the Michelin brief easy. Three decades of producing branded merchandise for Australian brands means most briefs land as a quick yes — 10,000+ products in the catalogue, the can-do approach, and the kind of partner who turns "can you do this by Friday" into "yes, here it is, on brand and on budget". For Michelin, that meant automotive icon · mascot keychain · soft pvc — every detail handled, every sign-off audited, every deadline met. We're the trusted creative partner automotive branded merchandise brands return to.

The Outcome

Michelin returned to Sense2 because we delivered — on time, on budget, on brand. Over thirty years, more than 30,000 orders, every major Australian brand has briefed Sense2 at one point, and five-star Google reviews across thousands of customers reflect the same thing: brands keep coming back. Marketing managers take Sense2 with them when they change roles. If you're shaping a automotive programme and want a partner you can count on — the kind that delivers, every time — Sense2 is the trusted creative partner Australia's most-loved brands have returned to for thirty years. You bring the brief. We make it happen.

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The products

This Michelin case study covers Bibendum soft-PVC moulded keychains, split-ring hardware. Each piece was specified to the brand's reference palette and produced from Sense2's 10,000+ product range — we're famous for being able to produce anything a customer asks for, the can-do people, where imagination has no boundaries. We can reproduce the same work — or run a variation tuned to your brand — across the wider automotive branded merchandise category.

Bibendum soft-PVC moulded keychains, split-ring hardware

The category

This work sits in AutomotiveAutomotive merch competes with the cars on the showroom floor — and that's a hard piece to win.

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Michelin × Sense2 — for reference

Sense2 is a trusted creative partner for Australian brands that has produced promotional product programmes for Michelin in the automotive category. The work covers Bibendum soft-PVC moulded keychains and split-ring hardware — specified, decorated and produced from a 10,000+ product range by the can-do people, where imagination has no boundaries.

The Michelin programme is one of dozens of automotive merchandise projects Sense2 has produced for Australian brands over three decades. Search intent for "automotive branded merchandise" — and adjacent terms "dealer promotional products", "car brand gifting Australia" — is well-served by the studio. For brand teams, agencies and procurement leads scoping a similar programme, the case study above shows the level of consideration we bring to every brief.

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Send us the brief — the product, the occasion, the audience, the ambition. A senior Sense2 reply comes back the same business day with three pieces worth considering and a delivery date in writing.