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5 Band Button Ideas

Buttons can be great source of revenue and a great marketing tool for bands.  It only costs about $300 to get a complete button maker system.  It’s not cheap, but it will pay for itself in no time.  Not only can you make buttons for your own band, you can also make them for other [...]


5th Annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition

Stereohype.com is holding its annual button design competition.
The entry deadline is February 16, 2009.  There are two separate categories - single badge design and set of three.
For some inspiration, you can see a see the winning entries from the past four competitions.


Button Packaging from OneInchRound.com

OneInchRound.com offers a variety of button packaging for button sellers. The company currently offers three different packages.
Here is a list of some of the benefits of the packaging:

Button Packs are USA Made with domestic materials and RPET plastic
NO tooling costs when you use our pre existing molds!
CMYK front / Black back card printing for button [...]


Barack Obama’s Official Button Supplier

Buttons can be big business - just ask Tigereye Design.  The company is based in Greenville, Ohio and is the main supplier of buttons, yard signs, posters, t-shirts, etc. for Barack Obama’s campaign.  How much is that contract worth?  Over $6 million and counting.

There is a very intersting article in the Dayton Daily News that [...]


Barack Obama Button Templates

If you would like to use your button machine to make Barack Obama buttons, there are several websites that have templates and graphics ready to be printed out.
A website called Buttons4Obama has a lot of resources available.
Chris Cox over at Change the Thought has several different designs available for download.

Over at Mercer County for Obama, [...]


Buttons on Display at New York Museum

The Museum of the City of New York has an exhibit through election day that features political buttons and a variety of other political memorabilia.  Campaigning for President: New York and the American Election opened on June 24 and has buttons, oil lamps, a George Washington coat button, and more.
New York Museum Features Campaign [...]


APIC National Convention

Today is the last day of the 2008 American Political Items Collectors National Convention in Las Vegas.
The New York Times wrote an interesting story about the event and some of the people that attend it.  Buttons are not the only political memorabilia collected - you have a Mike Huckabee guitar pick and even a Hillary [...]


Oktoberfest Button

Okbtoberfest in La Crosse, Wisconsin is in its 48th year.  The event is a German tradition.  The button for the was recently revealed.

The button was designed by Dana Moe, a graphic design student at Western Technical College.  Dana is pictured with the winning entry.  That may be largest picture of a button I’ve ever seen.
Oktoberfest [...]


Button Packaging - Part 1

Every now and then I will post pictures of button packaging.  If you have packaging you think should be featured, please let us know.

From WildOlive

From Button Kings

From melissahead designs


Barack Obama / Larry Craig Button Snafu

A button maker in Idaho mistakenly put a picture of Barack Obama and Larry Craig on the same button.  You may remember Larry Craig as the Republican U.S. Senator from Idaho who was arrested in airport bathroom for lewd conduct.
Tigereye Design accidently put Craig in the picture instead of Larry LaRocco, the Democratic candidate for [...]