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Buttons & Badges Aus 2014
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PAX Prime and East both have a thing called Buttoneering, where people make a bunch of the same button\badge with a picture that represents or is meaningful to them, and then trade with each other over the weekend. You end up with a bunch of different buttons\badges and hopefully having met a bunch of fellow PAXers. I brought a bunch of Beaker buttons\badges with me last year just to hand out and people seemed to really like the idea. I will be bringing a new Aussie themed version of my button again this year, and would love to trade with others and get some of your buttons to bring home.
If we do this, should we stick with the American name Buttoneering, or something new? Badgeneering?
Link for a very fine button tracking site the other PAXes use.
http://buttoneering.org/
Link for PAX Prime 2013 Buttoneering thread for more info on what they did.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/178037/buttoneering-it-is-time#latest
If we do this, should we stick with the American name Buttoneering, or something new? Badgeneering?
Link for a very fine button tracking site the other PAXes use.
http://buttoneering.org/
Link for PAX Prime 2013 Buttoneering thread for more info on what they did.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/178037/buttoneering-it-is-time#latest
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With that said, there is a company in Australia called "Button Empire" who do the same job, for an albeit pricier cost. But, it's the cheapest I've seen locally. They will do 50 25mm circular badges for 99 cents each, bringing the cost to just under $50.
I haven't been in contact with these guys, but they might be the alternative this activity is looking for: http://www.buttonempire.com.au/
tho sadly i lack creativity and probably wont be able to comeup with a design
a question tho, roughly how big is the pack of say, 50-100 38mm badges?
What do you mean how big? If you mean the size of each badge, then I made this up in GIMP:
Alright, turns out this is actually 31mm, so it's a little bit bigger than the image above.
50 of those is $54 and 100 of those is $97.
And in terms of designs, it doesn't need to be something the looks AWESOMESAUCEWTFOMG, but just needs to be something the represents you, or something that you like!
rough estimates are more than welcome
guess ill try to comeup with a design and join the fun
http://www.enemy-agency.com
Aus14 Omeganaut - Nef
Edit - They are the same as my Forum avatar
Sanity is a slippery slope, and I'm wearing Teflon shoes.
It's a discount, and brings the price of 50 38mm badges down to $48.60, or under a dollar a badge. Not too shabby.
If you're interested, these guys sound like a good Australian alternative to PureButtons, so visit them here: http://www.buttonempire.com.au/
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Hey look at this! http://buttoneering.org/events/pax-australia-2014/buttons
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PAX Prime 2014 Buttoneering!
@jreid anything specific you want help on? Basically pick\make a design. Then work with someone or somecompany to make the buttons for you. Bring them to PAX and swap them with other people for their badge, or just give them away to cool people you meet. The threads for the other PAXes have tons more information if you are interested.
In addition to those the PAX Prime thread has grown quite a bit since I originally posted and might be a good resource as well now
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/189477/buttoneering-promo-code-get-trading-pins-before-it-was-cool#latest
Speaking of, has anyone been able to secure a promo code from anywhere?
Purebuttons offered their code for Prime, which i'm going to use, but that doesn't help you guys. Ultimately someone would need to talk to someone local for you and try to convince them of the potential business to get a discount code.
I want to promote our gaming team/group thing but not sure how this button thing works...
If you are just going to trade, 50 is probably plenty. Button trading is still new at Aus and while you guys seem love them, its going to take a bit to catch on. Personally, I like to just give mine away also, so i'll be bringing probably about 200. I expect I'll probably be bringing some home with me. For buttons to promote your group its up to you. Are you going to only hand them to people you meet or play games with? Are you going to introduce yourself to people in lines your in and hand them out? Is it something you will only hand out to people local to you, in which case that will shrink the amount you need as you will meet people from all over Aus and elsewhere.
If you can i'd make the buttons a bit generic, no year or anything, so you can order more than you think you would need and can then use extras at other events or at next years PAX.
Keep in mind PAX prefers you did not advertise a business in person in the hall unless you have a booth. Its kinda unfair to those that paid to be an exhibitor. What you do outside the building in the public area of course is up to you. It doesn't sound like this is a business of yours, but just wanted to be clear. Although if you do have flyers you are welcome to leave them at the Info Booth for people to pick up.
Hope that helps.
I've found some through these guys in Geelong: http://www.gopromotions.com.au/shop/acrylic-badges-60-x-60mm but at a $2.00/badge pricepoint I don't think I can afford to go acrylic!
I'm looking to make 300 or so and this is my first time badging so I thought I'd ask around for some advice
Piccy!
And if we are going with badge over button, then my vote surely has to go to Badgering.
Only a mere 136 pins to go!
I thought it would be fun to tie it into participating in the Omegathon, so please come and support me and grab a button
Aus14 Omeganaut - Nef
Can anybody recommend somewhere?