All of us here at PureButtons wish your daughter a Happy Birthday!
Here is one of the recent PAX Button Trading game buttons. For more information about PAX view our previous post about PAX. I will be taking more photos so everyone can see them.
Here is a great example of a 1 inch button being used to its fullest potential. Notice the clean bold font. This helps make this small 1 inch button stand out. This is a great example of making a small but, mighty button turn into a great promotional button.
WP Candy featured The Button Post on their website. They liked us so much that they ordered buttons from us. Below is a quick photo I shot before this order shipped. Thanks WP Candy!
From the Associated Press, huge button news:
“Oops! Wrong Larry shown on Idaho campaign buttons
Jul 27, 2008
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Some Democratic campaign buttons made for distribution in Idaho show an unlikely pair: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Larry Craig.
But don’t expect the staunch Republican to throw his support behind Obama or for the presidential candidate to ask Craig to change his mind and run for Senate again. Apparently the button manufacturer picked a picture of the wrong Idaho Larry.
The 3-inch button by Tigereye Design was intended to show Obama beside Larry LaRocco, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, the Lewiston Tribune reported.
Craig is not seeking re-election following his arrest in a Minnesota airport restroom sex sting.
The buttons weren’t ordered by the LaRocco campaign, said Dean Ferguson, LaRocco’s communications director. They appear to have been produced by a commercial firm that makes campaign memorabilia involving Democratic races around the country, he said.
“That sounds like it’s going to be a collector’s item,” Ferguson said. “I’m sure Sen. Obama appreciates Sen. Craig’s support.”
Bill Hall, editor emeritus of the Tribune’s editorial page, said he bought 10 from the company’s Web site before they were withdrawn and fixed. The Obama-Craig buttons are no longer available for purchase.
“I realized it was a mistake, like finding a coin that’s been damaged in the making, so I quickly ordered 10 of them,” Hall said.
Neither officials with Tigereye Design nor Craig’s office could immediately be reached for comment Sunday.
Information from: Lewiston Tribune, http://www.lmtribune.com”
Hey Jeff,
We just got our buttons in today and we all loved them immensely! They are done so well and the color is great! Thank you sooooooooo much! We will definitely be ordering more.
Thanks Again!
-Lauren
Newbreed Girl
First, I’d like to say I’ve seen a lot of great looking buttons over the years but, I’ve also seen some of the worst looking buttons over the course of time as well. Which is what struck me to create a post to help everyone create more successful buttons. Let’s face it, the better your buttons look the happier you will be and the more buttons you will sell!
- Less is more
I remember my art teacher back in high school always telling me that when you are working with small spaces “Less is always more”. I’ve included an example of a good promotional button below for you to see.
- Keep things short and sweet. (when it comes to text)
When using text, make sure the design flows. You wouldn’t want to have, on one line or even two lines ie. “ASK ME HOW TO GET FREE GAS” (Examples below). This would be using the space of the button poorly. Therefore, making your promotional button look undesirable. The idea of your promotional button is to spark conversation about the message you’d like to convey. (To draw in your customers and to ask a question about what message is on your pinback button).
Above, are a few poor examples of a promotional button
Here is how I would have laid this pinback button out. Notice how much more legible this is. Also, the worth of this pinback button was improved by simply repositioning the text.
(see digital mock up below)
- Use colors that flow.
Sometimes colors look great together on your monitor but, let’s face it sometimes when they print it makes the button extremely difficult to read. A rule a thumb I always tell our customers (when they ask me how there button(s) will look) I have them print their artwork out of there home or office printer. That way they can see if things are legible and the colors are what they are looking for.
- When using a smaller button try to keep the design detail to a minimum. As you can see in the example below this is a highly detailed button design, but also notice there is no text. If there was text on this, it would make it extremely difficult to read.
- Be sure to have a full bleed for your design. I believe pinback buttons that have a full bleed look better and have higher quality value to them. I would highly suggest always designing your buttons with a full bleed.
These simple tips will help your pinback buttons be more successful, and you will also be happier with your button order.
It is every company’s responsibility to be as responsible as possible when it comes to the environment. Here at Pure Buttons, we take that responsibility very seriously. Our shop, uses high efficiency bulbs, they use about 1/10th of the power our other bulbs used and they last 4 times longer. Our button paper is 20% post consumer recycled and is acid free. Our button packaging cards are 30% post consumer recycled. The material that we use to top our buttons is more environmentally friendly and it looks better.
Better buttons for a better world.
Finally, PureButtons is on Twitter. We have gotten a lot of inquires about this, and we made the steps to allow you all to tweet us! Be sure to follow us. Now you can know exactly what we are doing.
We look forward tweeting it up with you!