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Badge / Button / Pin

Badge / Button / Pin
By Gavin Lucas

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Badges, buttons and pins have been around for over a century. Today they're everywhere: on lapels and bags all over the world and in the sketchbooks and on the screens of some of the hottest graphic designers, artists and illustrators. A badge can be a cheap and easy way to display political or cultural affiliations or it can simply be a fashion accessory. Cheap to produce and easy to make at home, the humble badge is the new Tshirt. A guide to the best and most beautiful badges being produced right now â be they graphic, textual or plain illustrative â this book explores the rich variety of uses of the badge since the year 2000 â whether it be promotion, revenue-raising or simply decorative. It will appeal to graphic designers, illustrators, fashion designers, artists, music lovers and badge enthusiasts of all ages.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #159982 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-07-16
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 128 pages

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About the Author
Gavin Lucas is Staff Writer at leading monthly communication arts journal Creative Review. He is the author, with Michael Dorrian, of Guerrilla Advertising: Unconventional Brand Communication.

Customer Reviews

Wear it with pride5
An interesting book for all counter-culture button fans. Advertising buttons have been around for years, especially prevalent during election time but the contents of this book are more to do with points-of-view rather than product pitching.

The five chapters with five hundred images (Decorative, Promotional, Packs, Websites and Art with ) cover the topical trends in a very visual way with the buttons presented as cutouts with a drop shadow. I thought the Art chapter rather intriguing with images created with dozens of buttons, each one has a bit of the overall picture. In the Promotional chapter, graphic designer Karen Jane has created a font based on the little bit of wire used in the back of all buttons.

The layouts are crisp and colourful and overall I thought this was a lovely little book, the square format helps too.

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