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...
Pinback Project: Tattoo Button Inspiration
Looking for inspiration in creating your entry for this month’s Pinback Project “The Tattooed Button”? Check out these great tattoo-themed buttons created by Busy Beaver customers over the past few months. 1. Tyler Evans made this button on behalf of his wife Lynne, whose likeness (created by artist Quyen Dinh) is featured. Lynne is behind...
Rooster Teeth Button Packs
Check out this new button pack from Rooster Teeth, using our Display Packs. These packs are being use to promote their newest animation series RWBY which will be premiering this summer at RTX in Austin. For more info on these Rooster Teeth packs, go to roosterteeth.com.
Best In Show
Check out these custom square buttons recently created by Spokane WA’s local newspaper, The Inlander: A play on the “Best in Show” concept, the newspaper’s art department used these fanciful dog images to illustrate the recent “Best of” issue featuring the best restaurants, shops, and entertainment options in the Spokane area. The buttons were then...
Frankenfoods Buttons Up
Check out these 8-bit button designs from Karakasa Games in Austin, TX: According to Karakasa Games’ Creative Director Wiley Wiggins, these buttons are being used to promote Frankenfoods, an iPad game currently in development. Details on the game are scarce— Wiggins says more info will be online closer to the launch date— but according to...
Gold, Wild and Free
Valentina Vincent is a New York-based designer who, after dreaming of starting a t-shirt company for years, decided to finally go for it by creating a personal challenge for herself: design a t-shirt a day based on something trending on Twitter. Each shirt design was chronicled on her blog, and the collection of 8 special...
Feminism at Thirteen
With the recent publication of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, feminism is suddenly mainstream news again. Leaning in, pushing back, getting a seat at the table and having it all are all concepts currently being hotly debated amongst my friends. But I’m in my thirties— what does feminism look like to...
Wonderfully Weird
I’m a huge fan of pop surrealism and the DIY aesthetic, so when I saw these beautifully grotesque buttons by artist Sage Perrott come through I had to get the back story. Perott said of her buttons, “I’m using the designs as part of a gift shop in my MFA Thesis show. Some will be...
Red State Date Buttons Up
Calling all single Republicans! We recently made a trio of buttons for RedStateDate.com, a site geared specifically for the single conservative. No more will they have to weed through a sea of liberal weenies at the corner bar– with Red State Date, only red-blooded conservatives need apply. The buttons were used at a singles event...
Donuts + Buttons = Delicious
Ready for some delicious buttons? Check out these sweet pinbacks from Donuts are Forever: Donuts are Forever is an annual tribute party and fundraiser held in honor of hip hop producer J Dilla who passed away in 2006. Proceeds from the event go toward a scholarship fund that sends teens to after-school Dj-ing and music...
Buttons for Love
Love for Love is a project by artist Gregory Sale currently on display in the group exhibition More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing at the Ackland Museum in Chapel Hill, NC. Composed of 10,000 1.5″ buttons, each features love-inspired text from Chapel Hill-area residents whose voices aren’t always heard: recipients at a food bank, people who...
Blue Sky Alpacas Buttons Up
Blue Sky Alpacas has been making buttons for the past couple of years to promote their line of natural fiber yarns. The buttons, for both the Blue Sky Alpaca and Spud and Chloë brand, are used to promote the company at the National Needlearts Association trade show and are also distributed to retail yarn stores to...
