Obama Buttons Outsell McCain Buttons
Obama trounces McCain … in sales of T-shirts, badges, caps - Breitbart
The article above takes a look at merchandise sales for Barack Obama and John McCain. Obama merchandise is much more popular than McCain merchandise. Last week at a popular website, McCain barely beat out Hillary Clinton in merchandise sales.
If you make political buttons, you’re probably already aware of the popularity of Obama buttons. It’s interesting to see a news article written about the discrepancy.
What Should Obama Wear?
Early in the presidential race, Barak Obama caught some heat for not wearing an American flag lapel pin on his suit.
Over at The New York Times, Steven Heller asks a few designers what Barak Obama should wear on his suit instead of an American flag pin. There are some interesting suggestions - such as an Abraham Lincoln lapel, lots of lapels, and more.
The buttons below were submitted by illustrator Oliver Munday.
Button Packaging
If you sell buttons in a retail store (or are thinking about it), you’ll probably need packaging for your buttons.
A company called Pure Buttons offers custom button packaging. The company offers five different types of packaging. They’ve been doing packaging for over three years.
Uncle Sam and Hitler
There is a very unique interactive button on ebay. The button features Uncle Sam pulling down on a rope. Unfortunately, Uncle Sam needs your help pulling the rope. When you pull the rope, Adolf Hitler is revealed.
Currently there are no bids on this auction and the price is $75.
Lumberjack Days Button Revealed
Story via TwinCities.com
Lumberjack Days is an annual event held in Stillwater, Minnesota. This year the event is July 23-27.
There is a treasure hunt with a $1,000 prize. But, in order to win the prize, you must be wearing a button. The $3 button was designed by Ben Alpert, a student at the University of Minnesota.
Buttons on the cover of Wired Magazine
The July issue of Wired Magazine has a few buttons on the cover.
The buttons say “I’m a Red-Hot Republican,” “Kiss Me I’m a Democrat”, and “Watch Out Vote”.
Decorate Your Bathroom with Toilet Paper Buttons
In a previous post I gave readers an idea to use the button display case as a bathroom decoration.
If you can’t make buttons yourself, you may want to just buy some toilet paper buttons from Buttonhead over at Etsy. The buttons are $1.50.
Buy the case for $45, buy the buttons for $15, and you have some pretty cool bathroom art for $60.
Unique Theodore Roosevelt Button
There is a unique Theodore Roosevelt button for sale on ebay. It’s not your typical round button. It features a mechanical mouth that opens up at the bottom.
There is quite a bit of interest in this little button. With less than a day left in the auction, the bidding is up to over $800.
4th of July Buttons - Flag, Patriotic, Red, White, and Blue
Happy Independence Day,
There are over 300 hundred, Fourth of July Buttons on Zazzle. A search for Fourth of July buttons on CafePress returns more than 2,000 results.
There aren’t a lot of buttons over at Etsy specifically for the 4th of July, but Koolbadges has 1″ buttons below for sale.
American Patriotic Buttons - ButtonStore.com
Partriotic - Badges of Honour
Button Graphic Creator for Photoshop
Today, I’m releasing a great little file in Photoshop that was created for my company over a year ago.
This file will allow you to easily import a graphic and Photoshop magically turns that graphic into a button. Take a look at the results below. The first file is the graphic imported into the file, and the second file is the completed button.
The completed graphic:
Here is another button created:
If you are familiar with Photoshop, then this will be very easy for you.
Go to “File” and select “Place”. Select the file you want to import. Once the file is imported, you can move it around, scale it, etc. Press “enter” to place the photo.
If you graphic is not automatically in the group that says “Place photo in here”, then drag it into that group. I’ve illustrated that below. If the graphic is not visible when placed in the group, make sure you either 1) place the graphic above “button-biz-graphic” or de-select the “eye” to left of “button-biz-graphic” and make sure the “eye” is selected next to the graphic just imported.
This is going to be very valuable to people making their own buttons.
