Introducing Rectangle Buttons and Magnets!
Busy Beaver is excited to announce the addition of our newest button and magnet shape: the 2″x3″ rectangle! Rectangles are the shape for getting your big messages heard! Available in both horizontal and vertical layouts, our rectangles can be pinned on as buttons or made as magnets. Use our special finishes– cosmic, metallic or glow–...
Button Up For Trade Shows
John Costello of Cherry’s Industrial Equipment recently enlisted the help of our in-house designer, Natalie, to create these custom trade show buttons: But these buttons aren’t just good lookin’, they’re also meant to represent the three reasons that make Cherry’s stand out from their competition, as Costello explains: Buy American “Many of our competitors in...
Top 10 Reasons to Button Up for SXSW
Headed to South by Southwest in a couple weeks to spread the word about your totally amazing band/movie/start-up/website/awesome idea? Busy Beaver’s got you covered with custom buttons to get you noticed by all the movers and shakers. Here are our top 10 ideas for using buttons at SXSW: 1. Network, network, network! Give people a...
JCPenney To Give Away 80 Million Buttons
As part of their Black Friday promotion, starting today JCPenney will be giving away 80 million free pin-back buttons. 80 million! Now that’s what I’d call spreading the button love. And not only will shoppers get a fun holiday button to wear, they’ll also have a chance to win prizes. Each button will have a...
Break The Ice With Buttons
Ah, the holidays! Cookies, presents, yuletide cheer… and obligatory social events. Yep, it’s that time of year again where you have to make small talk over eggnog at countless holiday parties. To avoid awkward conversation, either you can do as I do and make friends with the household pets, or you can take inspiration from...
Etsy Hearts Buttons
Our pals over at Etsy came up with these cute button designs for their latest batch of one-inchers. Designed by Jeremy Perez-Cruz, a handmade lover can’t go wrong with one of these little beauties.
Q & A with Julien Chung
I recently spoke with illustrator and long-time button customer Julien Chung. Julien’s been making buttons with Busy Beaver since 2005 and you can always bet that when his new order comes in it’ll be the brightest, most colorful designs of the day. Julien uses his buttons to advertise his work to potential clients. Below he...
Tonight! The Snackpot Launch Party
Join The Snackpot tonight at Schuba’s for the official launch of their pop culture and snack review website. Guests can enjoy free beer from 7pm-9pm and complementary snacks courtesy of Top Chef’s Chuy Valencia, Pop Chips, and Pretzel Chips. And, if you’re lucky, you might even snag a 1-inch button printed with The Snackpot’s flying...
Characters with Canes (Part 5)
Charlie Chaplin’s “little tramp” character is quite possibly the most famous character with a cane. In the 1980s, IBM used the likeness of Chaplin to sell their personal computers. This IBM campaign sought to warm up its corporate image and show how easy the computer was to use.For more characters with canes buttons, check out...
Characters with Canes (Part 4)
For our latest edition of the Characters with Canes series, we have Mr. Pikle. This button from the 1940s extols one of the virtues of eating pickles; as the button states, “Pikle-Rite Keeps Your Weight Right”.Did you know that a former Busy Beaver now owns his own pickle company? Yep, former button maker Tom Perkins...
These Buttons are Kind Of Blue
Kind Of Blue is a new monthly comedy showcase, hosted by Busy Beaver Button Co’s own shipping guy and resident stand-up comedian, Nicholas Rouley. The showcase will feature Chicago’s finest up-and-coming stand-up comics. He made some classy 1-inch metallic buttons (with a little help from Busy Beaver’s Design Service) for attendees of the first showcase, taking place...
Characters with Canes Buttons (Part 2)
In part 2 of the Busy Beaver Button Museum characters with canes series, we find Mr. Peanut. This classy character was created in 1916 by a fourteen year-old schoolboy in a contest to create a new company logo for Planters peanuts. An artist later added the finishing touches including spats, a top hat, monocle, and...
