Posted On March 31, 2009 at 11:50 am in Button badges, Stock
Button Badges for Clubs and Groups
For many clubs however, the classic enamel badge is the one they want for their members. But classic doesn’t have to be boring or one dimensional. With a selection of enamel button badges which include a range of finishes and processes which include printed as well as hard and soft enamels, with or without a decorative fill , enamel button badges can be bold and colourful or discrete and classy and versatile. With the addition of a suitable fixing the button badge can be worn as a brooch, tie pin or cufflink. Many prestigious clubs and professional institutes like to give their members this choice particularly those which welcome both men and women as members.
A button badge can be used to communicate, identity, membership status, or merit – any or all of these functions. It represents your club or group and what you stand for, a coveted symbol, a badge of honour to be worn with pride.
Button badges are an inexpensive but highly attractive and visible way to promote the image you want for your club or group.
Whether your club or group is political, charitable, sporting or purely social it is important that it has its own recognizable identify. Button badges are simply a great way to promote your club and what it stands for
Button badges can be as unique in design as your club or group. Inexpensive and quick to design and produce, once introduced they quickly become a coveted sign of membership and are worn with pride. Whatever the purpose or function of your group and its members , its name, status, persona and image is important for members and non-members alike.
Over the years button badges have been used to promote or signal membership of many diverse groups and causes. In the 1970s button badges became part of the youth cult , for the fans or rock and punk bands they symbolised membership and affiliation with a particular form of music. In a very different vein the Boy Scout movement was issuing button badges as merit awards.
Today the awarding and wearing of Button badges is as popular as ever and has become firmly established as a way of promoting and identifying membership of a huge and diverse range of societies, groups and clubs. And its easy to see why. Modern button badges are, attractive and affordable and can be easily and quickly customised or tailor-made to incorporate an emblem or logo – with or without additional text.
With a choice of materials and sizes, from the discrete to the unashamedly big and flamboyant, and with prices to suit your budget our button badges can be tailored to your specific design requirements, (in large or small numbers) in a very short space of time.
Plastic button badges are often the first choice for groups coming together for promotional , or one off events where their eye-catching properties can be used to good effect to draw attention to the cause as well as identifying the organisers.
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Posted On March 5, 2009 at 12:01 am in Button badges, Stock
Button Badges were originally invented by a American company based in New Jersey called Whitehead and Hoag and that was in 1896. They were responsible for several novelty items one of which came to produce was a button for holding up men’s trousers. This first and original button was made using a unique process which involved a piece of cloth being placed over a metal shell. A metal collar was then pressed into the back holding the piece of cloth in place and stretching it tight across the front of the shell. Eventually in 1896 this was modified to manufacture “all classes of jewelry such as cuff-buttons, and especially link buttons, stick-pins, badges (and) brooches”. The Button Badge was born but not exactly as we know it today as it still had a front made of material.
About the same time John Wesley Hyatt invented “celluloid” which is a tough thermoplastic that can be printed on and was durable enough to stamp. Switching the material for the celluloid produced the first Button Badges as we now know and love them. Whitehead and Hoag in 1896 quickly moved to announce “improvements in badges for use as lapel pins or buttons, or other like uses.”
Because the original Button Badges were a simple advance in the trouser Buttons being 1 inch or approximately 25 mm in diameter and the badges were made in the same way as the clothing buttons they were and still are called “Button Badges” or Pins.
Any Badge Maker in the world today would still make Button Badges in more or less the same way but with marginally different materials. Surely a tribute to the simplicity of the original article and the the skill of its inventor.
At this time metal die struck Cloisonne Enamel Badges were the only badge pins or promotional badges available. Enamel lapel pins were very popular however they were too expensive. The brand new “Button Badge” was such a favourite alternative advertising and marketing item that that in the very first year over a million Button Badges were made.
In the early years Button Badges were most frequently used to promote sports stars, actors and politicians. They were given as promotional gifts and even an incentive when a packet of cigarettes was bought. They were also given to promote political messages in England during the Boer War with messages like “England expects every man to do his duty”. Even today the humble button badge fulfills those same roles. Most recently featuring prominently in the 2008 – 2009 recent American presidential elections. The button badges for the successful candidate Barack Obama making iconic status with their simple messages and
The Button Badge uses have been so varied since its conception that it requires a more in-depth look at its uses. It is impossible to calculate accurately how many button badges have been made in the more than 100 years since their invention, certainly it will have been several billion. There have been very few items that have persisted over such a long period, and the future looks secure for what has become a fashion icon.
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Posted On March 1, 2009 at 6:26 pm in Button badges
Button badges are a great way to advertise your company, event, activity, society or club. Simple to design and quick to produce, it can be possible to have them being worn on lapels within just a few days of the initial idea.
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Button badges are a long lasting worldwide fashion that still fosters identity in a uniquely low cost way. Buttons are easily produced in large numbers for little cost, and a great way to promote your brand. If your budget is small then button badges are ideal, because as well as cheap to mass produce they are always available in short productions runs.
Lapel badges are worn for a range of events and and causes. From political events to charitable causes, they are universally used to help their wearers broadcast their message. Political button badges are always a feature of American political campaigning, with many memorable buttons acquiring value long after the vote, for the wit and humour displayed on them.
Button badges can also be used as accessories to handbags, scarves, t-shirts and even greeting cards. Although originally aimed at children the archetypal “I am 5″ badge has crept into the adult market and in fact it has become almost compulsory for grownups approaching the milestone birthdays for 30, 40 50 or even 60 to receive one of these type of badges to wear on their big day, however embarrassing that might be.
The most common form of badge is the 1 inch button (25mm button badge). This is an enduring standard as the first buttons produced over a hundred years ago used the same format. Although they are now available in a variety of sizes and shapes, the one inch button badge is the enduring standard. Even the means of attaching it to your clothing, a safety pin, has not changed substantially over the years., and of course why change a method that works. The simplicity of the button badge is probably the secret of its enduring success.
Novelty button are often a collectible item but they also make a perfect commemorative item. Easily adapted as a key ring or a fridge magnet, button badges are a perfect way of promoting your corporate identity and enhancing brand loyalty.
From company advertising to a congratulatory birthday badge or hen party badges, the simple button badge can send a wide range of statements and messages. It could be that the most you want to say is “I am 6″, declare your allegiance to a political party, or your love of a particular band, often it can simply be a silly message to raise a smile on the faces of friends and colleagues.
Lapel button pins are flexible to any task or message and are a great means of promoting and advertising for brand identity. It does not matter if you are starting a new brand or campaigning for an existing product, button badges are the ideal media for your message. Priced at just a few pennies each, it would be hard to think of a situation that would mean the expense would not produce a profitable return. The low unit cost and short production runs make it ideal for a any number of campaigns.
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