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.

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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

We’re excited about all our new boxes! This week brings us the new Kidrobot “Smorks & Mongers” button box Series 1. We’ve limited Production to 400 boxes, once they’re gone, they’re gone. Have a store? Pick one up today.

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

Out now from Badge Bomb,  the new Frank Kozik “1984″ button box.  Filled with 24 anti-everything designs.   Check ‘em all out  at www.badgebomb.com/kozik

Ring Ring….  “Hello Mrs. Ghahremani,  this is Lauren,  can susie come over to play?”

We’re super excited about the new BoyGirlParty box over at Badge Bomb, stuffed full of 30 Susie Ghahremani originals. All the button designs are brand new and available on BadgeBomb.com, or from Boygirlparty.com in the near future.

Monday, we’ll be setting this up in Las Vegas at POOL Tradeshow for Badge Bomb’s booth (we’re in booth #805 nudge nudge). We hired the folks down at Sirrocco Labs in Los Angeles to build us this cardboard 3/4 scale rendition of the city of Portland. Okay, maybe 3/4 scale is a bit of an exaggeration, but my math doesn’t take away from how sweet it is.

Keep an eye out for their new movie “Red Moon”. Yes, the submarine cockpit featured here is also completely made out of cardboard. We can’t wait to see it. Maybe it really will play at the Laurelhurst Theatre? One can hope.

These Spanish darlings finally have their own button box thanks to popular demand!!! Each box contains 200 one inch buttons featuring the “retro pop” art of Naranjas Chinas. Pick one up here

Here’s a look at the first of 4 new button boxes coming your way this spring from Badge Bomb!   The Yummy You box is filled with buttons featuring highly detailed photos of the crocheted creations of Twinkie Chan!  Keep an eye out for a whole line of scarfs, accessories, and savory stuff by Yummy You clothing. Boxes are in stock and ready to ship. Pick one up for your store here

Check out this translation of Retard Riot’s latest review in Sydsvenskan:

With a fantastic imagination à la Bosch Lyon gets his nourishment from popular culture, news flow, contemporary society, international politics and doomsday prophecies. Noah Lyon ”Look at All Your Stuff”

Galleri Thomas Wallner, Malmö, Sweden through May 27
Noah Lyon’s drawings are like graffiti-covered walls. Bright colors call you in to take a closer look; in the multitudes I’m drawn to “All Your Stuff”. A man, or is it a bird, in a wheelchair is chewing, like Moloch, on a naked figure, who is expelling gas in anticipation of death, while another guy without a head slinking away with a turd on his shoulders. Some poor wretch is flushed down the toilet, and a miserable bastard, trapped in an orange bag, is vomiting from his torture. The colors of U.S.A. are shining through like a dirty rainbow. The doomsday horn is blowing.
Figure is added to figure, scene added to scene, one image next to another, in a color scale that would do credit to any Concretist. With a fantastic imagination à la Bosch Lyon gets his nourishment from popular culture, news flow, contemporary society, international politics and doomsday prophecies. Full to the brim. It is important to say everything, all at once. Then he can leave the words and thoughts to the beholder. Implicitly he is offering his world, what does yours look like? ”Look at All Your Stuff” is the name of the exhibition!
The pressure in Lyon’s imagery is kept high by the small format. Sometimes down to mini size. Then they are small picture buttons that are also put together into “button paintings”. The effect is stroboscopic; quick punch lines about his world.
Alongside the image fury Lyon shows more conventional paintings. Loaded with air, light and dreams of a sort of American mythology. The painting “Pyramid Me” is just a small picture of a man in a cowboy hat in front of a wall that has been sewn together; the seam resembles a pole with a small owl. Within, I hear Hank Williams’ tragic dreams and painfully beautiful music!
Lyon’s images collide in a way that would have put André Breton in ecstasy.
- Thomas Millroth, art critic - Sydsvenskan April 30, 2009

Get some of Noah’s art on his rad one inch buttons - available from Badge Bomb!