Golden Button Awards: Fangamer
Fangamer is this year’s winner of the “High Score Award” and it’s no wonder— they made 43,932 buttons in 2011 year alone! Check ‘em out: Wow, that’s a whole lotta buttons! Thanks to Fangamer for spreading the button love in mass quantities.
Golden Button Awards: Ravelry
When it comes to clever wordplay, our friends over at Ravelry have the market cornered. That’s why they were the hands-down winner for this year’s Golden Button award for “Pun-iest Button” of 2011. While the “daily dose of fiber” design pictured above is a world-class pun for a website community devoted to knit and crochet...
Golden Button Awards: WordPress
Winner of this year’s Golden Button award for “Most Blog-Worthy Buttons” is WordPress. A natural choice, sure, but we really love their simple, direct design and lovely color choices. Plus, the WordPress folks are clearly button fans, too— just check out their Wordcamp Planning website banner. Pretty swell, eh? Thanks to WordPress for helping spread the...
Golden Button Awards: Wisconsin Film Festival
The folks at the Wisconsin Film Festival love their buttons! In fact, a few years back, the festival changed their name badges to shoelace-style lanyards because volunteers and attendees wanted wider lanyards to show off their button collections. In 2011, the festival gave away 8,000 1-inch buttons. Meg Hamel, director of the fest, said of...
Golden Button Awards: Coudal Partners
Button Ambassadors are the kinds of customers who carry the gospel of buttons wherever they go. They share our devotion to these tiny pin-back forms of expression and are always up for trying something new and making their custom buttons one-of-a-kind. We’re proud to honor Coudal Partners with this year’s “Button Ambassador Award”. Their creative...
Golden Button Awards: The Poetry Foundation
This year’s “Platinum Pin-back Award for Button Excellence”, the highest honor given during the Golden Button Awards, goes to the Poetry Foundation. Not only are the folks at the Poetry Foundation one of Busy Beaver‘s oldest clients—they’ve been ordering their famous Eric Gill Pegasus buttons from us for almost a decade— they are also some...
Golden Button Awards: People’s Choice Voting
Voting for the 1st Annual Golden Button for People’s Choice Award is now open! YOU DECIDE THE WINNER. VOTE NOW! Vote below for your favorite design of 2011. Polls are open between February 20 and February 23— cast your vote below. Just choose the number below that corresponds with your favorite numbered design above. After...
Golden Button Awards: People’s Choice Nominees
We saw thousands of amazing buttons in 2011— it was hard to narrow down the choices to just a few! But, after much debate at the Busy Beaver Button Co. headquarters, we came up with twelve special buttons worthy of celebration. Here are the nominees for the 1st Annual Golden Button for People’s Choice Award....
My Fave: Couch Potato Button
Among the many buttons displayed in the Busy Beaver Button Museum, nothing tickles my fancy quite like this “Couch Potato” button from 1983. I love that the potato is chilling with beers while only wearing sandals and a fez. What unique ideas would you like to see on a button? Create your own buttons now...
Rhymes with Peace
This one goes out to all the ladies… named Denise. Busy Beaver shipping guru, Nicholas Rouley, made me this 2.25-inch button magnet last week. It’s simple, direct, and makes good use of a rhyming dictionary. Thanks, dude!
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The 1st Annual Golden Button Awards
Busy Beaver Button Co. is proud to announce the 1st Annual Golden Button Awards! The Golden Button Awards honors the previous year’s exemplary button artwork and our customers’ commitment to spreading the button love. We believe custom buttons are more than decorative flair. They are conversation starters, wearable mementos, and commemorative objects. Buttons are a...
