Top 5: Illinois Museum Day
Today marks the 15th Annual Museum Day here in Illinois. While museum staff, board members and volunteers from across the state will be using this day to talk with state legislators, why don’t you use this day to visit a local museum? Here’s a list of Busy Beaver’s top 5 picks for Chicago museum visits:...
WARHOL on Buttons
Plains Art Museum in Fargo, North Dakota recently created a batch of buttons to go along with the exhibit Andy Warhol: Creating Myth and Icon. The set of six 1.25-inch buttons (along with another 2-inch square with a similar design) feature bold letters spelling out Warhol’s name. German artist Joseph Beuys’ theory of social sculpture,...
Busy Beaver Top 5: Museum Buttons
Busy Beaver loves museums (of course we do– we have one right in our offices!). And since museums love buttons, it makes for a pretty great match. Here are some of our favorite museum buttons from the past few months: 1. “Epic Win” from the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago‘s 2012 Games Summit, a...
How to Make Buttons for Your Non-Profit
Custom buttons are a great way to for non-profits with tight budgets to market to the audience you’re trying to reach. Buttons can get your name out to stakeholders, advertise your programs and services and raise awareness about issues effecting your community. Buttons are affordable, simple to customize by you or using our design services, and easy to...
Roy Lichtenstein Buttons Take Over Chicago
If you’ve been out and about in Chicago this summer, chances are you’ve come across one of these “I (DOT) Lichtenstein” buttons: Busy Beaver has produced 100,000 (and counting) of these 1-inch buttons in blue, yellow, and red for The Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibit Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective and they’ve been magically dispersing across...
