I won’t lie…. the party was epic!!! Here’s a little video teaser thanks to Trent J.

Thanks to everyone who came out to the One Inch Round 10 Year Anniversary Party and showed some love, shook their booty, and wagged a finger. We love you all back! In the coming days (lets be real…. weeks) we’ll post more photos and videos as they come in. While Koi Fushion Cart, Voodoo Doughnuts Van, The Woods itself, and the foam fingers were awesome, anyone who was there knows that Billy & Chris’s Death Star Pinata stole the show. In some ways, it was a crying shame to see their beautiful masterpiece destroyed, but I guess it was okay since it was done with a light saber bat.

In honor of ten years shipping buttons ’round the planet, and three years from here in Portland, we’re throwing our 10-year anniversary party at The Woods for our friends, customers, fellow button enthusiasts, and anyone else who wants to come out and have a kick-ass time. Come join us and dance to the soulful stylings of DJ Cooky Parker, eat your food cart heart out, enter our drawing to win 1,000 free custom buttons with your logo, come take a swing at a custom pinata full of buttons and other goodies… Are we ballsy enough to make the pinata look like our boss? You’ll just have to come to find out.

RSVP via Facebook

When: Saturday July 3rd at 8:00pm ’til late
Where: The Woods Portland
What: DJ Cooky Jar Spins Soul, Win 1000 custom buttons, Mystery Pinata, and more…

Admission is 21 & over and FREE!

Get the full scoop here

This was our One Inch Round & Badge Bomb ad for the Crafty Wonderland program.   Thanks to our pals Richie, Jen Smith, and Seasons K Designs for lending their Tony Award worthy acting skills & amazing art studio.

Check out all the amazing local artists & crafters that make this city such a great place!  We are excited to be part of this year’s spring Crafty Wonderland!

Come early to grab one of the 200 goodie bags given daily at the door with special surprises.  And stop by our PDX themed cardboard booth to check out some brand new buttons from the likes of Susie Gharemani’s Boygirlparty, Twinkie Chan’s Yummy You, and much much more!  Don’t forget to enter our contest for a chance to win free Badge Bomb PDX button packs and Portland made custom buttons with your own art!

Badge Bomb PDX buttons

April 22 - April 30th @ the Hollywood Theater

Jackpot Records jump starts its film festival this year with an opportunity to get in on the action early. While the following week’s films are presented at no charge, we preamble the festival this year with a fundraiser showing of the legendary T.A.M.I. Show.

This festival is made possible with the support of a number of local folks & businesses, including One Inch Round.

Portlanders, check out the rad PDX storytellers tonight at Mission Theater & don’t forget to grab one of their free custom buttons!

Backfence PDX - Mission Theater

While participating in this years infamous SXSW Indie Rock extravaganza in Austin, TX, I had my eyes peeled for any festival goers with particularly interesting button stylez.  I figured someone would be thinking outside of the button box at a week-long festival showcasing the newest of new and hippest of hip in the music-verse.  It wasn’t until the final day of the festival that I spotted this beauty at the roller rink show on Cesar Chavez Blvd.

Matt, of Toronto based band dd/mm/yyyy (spoken aloud as day-month-year), doesn’t seem to think one button is enough, or even that the front of a button is what’s important.  To me, Matt’s DIY masterpiece is a “meta-button,” or a button about buttons; by velcro-ing smaller, building block buttons together to form one mega, franken-button, Matt forces us to focus on the buttons themselves rather than the images they display.  Thanks Matt for being so rad!  Check out dd/mm/yyyy’s myspace here. I recommend the “Imagine” video.

Q: What’s one of the greatest things about Portland?
A: Voodoo Doughnuts!

Atleast in our land of custom buttons, we enjoy many a Butter Fingering or Maple Bar:

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What exactly do we do with all these donuts? Well to be quite honest, we bought 2 boxes this week, then we washed them down with coffee, and we’ll be back for more next week! Maybe they are the source of inspiration for some creative art buttons? Who knows!

YEAH!  One Inch Round - the sole maker of Badge Bomb products was recognized today with this awesome RecycleWorks Award from the City of Portland’s Office of Sustainability. Here we are today celebrating with this cool “Bike Sprocket” plaque that they presented to us - another sprocket for our car-free workplace!