Ladies of Beer
Sure, beer can have the reputation as a guy’s drink (think Homer Simpson), but as these examples from the Button Museum can attest, ladies and beer have a long history together. Clockwise from top right: 1. Valley Forge Beer button from the 1940′s/1950′s. The beer survived Prohibition and was brewed up into the 1980′s. 2....
Emma For President, 2044
When researching ideas for her daughter’s 5th birthday photos, the only inspiration photographer Jaime C. Moore could find involved princesses. But, as Moore says in her recent blog post, princesses are just characters— just a fantasy for girls other than Kate Middleton: “It started me thinking about all the REAL women for my daughter to...
Button Museum featured in The New Yorker
Readers of The New Yorker may have noticed a pinback button featured prominently in the April issue. The Busy Beaver Button Museum was honored to have a 1970′s women’s rights button from our collection featured in the header of Susan Faludi’s article, “Death of a Revolutionary,” about the life of activist Shulamith Firestone. Busy Beaver...
Octopus Alone Buttons Up
Octopus Alone, the newest book by Divya Srinivasan is out today! After creating glow in the dark buttons for her previous book, Little Owl’s Night, Divya made a set of 10 buttons featuring the creatures in Octopus Alone. We haven’t had a chance to read the book yet, but judging from the button featuring an octopus being...
Dam Good Deal: 10% Off Magnets!
From Wednesday, May 15 through Wednesday, June 5 Busy Beaver is offering 10% off all Magnets. Just use coupon code “MagnetMay2013” at checkout on BusyBeaver.net. Coupon code good for magnets only. One use per customer. Valid until June 5 at midnight CST.
How To: Buttons For Craft Beer Week
Looking for a way to promote your brewery during Craft Beer Week and the summer festival season? Check out these four creative and fun ways to use buttons for your brewery: Sell Them This one’s kind of a no-brainer, but selling buttons is an easy and cost effective way to let the world know about...
Historic Rectangle Examples from the Button Museum Collection
Last month’s introduction of our new 2×3″ rectangle size had us thinking about some of the interesting rectangle examples from The Button Museum. Rectangle buttons have been around for decades and used primarily used for advertising and promotions. Check out some of our favorite rectangles from the museum’s collection: 1. One of our favorite odd...
Design Inspiration: Type + Shadow
Looking through the Button Museum collection, there are buttons that speak clearly of their time and those that seem like they could’ve been made just yesterday. I came upon this pair of advertising buttons for Persil laundry detergent and Sanitol talcum powder and was struck by how much they fall into the latter category– both...
The Button Museum Roaring 20′s Collection
In anticipation of the release of the new movie version of The Great Gatsby this weekend, it seems that the 20′s are back. The Button Museum has plenty of buttons from the 1920s in it’s archives, including quite a few of the “roaring” variety– buttons that epitomize the bobbed hair, sexual freedom and fun-loving attitude that personified...
Celebrating Camp Traditions With Buttons
Check out these cute buttons by Hidden Valley Camp in Granite Falls, Washington: Ned Harrison, Assistant Director of the camp, says of the buttons, “These buttons will be used this summer to divide Hidden Valley Camp into Fun Day teams. Fun Day happens on the first Saturday of each session. It is a break from...
George W. Bush Paintings Make Great Buttons
Busy Beaver is always on the lookout for new and emerging talent to partner with for button making. When the news of George W. Bush’s skill as a painter leaked this spring, we knew that his work would be perfectly suited for buttons. According to Bush’s art teacher, the former president has painted “over 50...
