Introducing Miniature Menagerie, an animal art collection made especially for Badge Bomb, by the wonderfully talented Susie Ghahremani of Boygirlparty. This button collection goes through time from the age of dinosaurs to highly evolved music-playing cats!

We loved Susie’s first button box so much that we decided to do a number 2!

Like what you see? You can buy Badge Bomb at cool boutiques near you!

All Badge Bomb one inch buttons and packaging are USA made by One Inch Round.

Please vote for your favorite Puppy Party button design!

Thanks to Gemma Correll we can rock some canine flair on our lapels, button style.  And now you can pick from the 24 button styles to make some fridge decor.  Badge Bomb will take the top four designs with the most votes and make an exclusive Puppy Party super strong magnet set that will be available at cool boutiques near you.

After you vote, be sure to submit your email address to be entered to win some Gemma Correll + Badge Bomb flair, k? The winner gets $50 in merchandise, including the magnet set, the entire 24 Puppy Party one inch button collection, and some extra special treats.

We’re also giving everyone that participates a discount to make your own Badge Bomb quality custom buttons from our manufacturer, One Inch Round!

VOTE NOW! You can vote for as many designs as you want. Didn’t win? All 24 buttons are available at stores that carry Badge Bomb! And the magnets will be released in stores in 2012!

How It Works

• Vote by 5:00 PM Pacific Time, September 20, 2011
• Winner selection is September 27, 2011

See Badge Bomb’s Facebook page for details.

All Badge Bomb Buttons are custom made in by One Inch Round in Portland, Oregon.

“We need to talk about your flair”.

Don’t worry this isn’t going to be a conversation about your button number. Whether you want to wear the “bare minimum 15″ or if you want to wear 100 buttons (that would be incredible to see so if you do please send a picture) or if you want to wear 1, it doesn’t matter. What does matter is that you express yourself.

Look, we’re not trying to be “Stan the man” here, and over emphasis the fact that flair is a form of personal expression. We know that you already know how to express yourself. It isn’t about how many buttons you wear (although a 100 is not shy of expression) its about how you wear it, where you where it, and what design you choose to wear that is 100% uniquely you, and being you is the best way to maximize your flair.

Check out this flair! How do you like to show off your button attire?

One Inch Round creates and packages Badge Bomb flair in Portland, OR.

The birth of a button is a joyous occasion.

Badge Bomb buttons are the love children of One Inch Round’s dedication to using the best button technology, and the highest quality recycled materials, plus the fun innovative inspiration that comes from the many artists, designers, and illustrators that get cozy with us. All Badge Bomb buttons are created in Portland, Oregon, but what happens after a Badge Bomb button is all grown up, packaged, and ready to leave its Portland nest?

It’s out in the world like a Cat Steven’s song, that’s right, Baby, It’s a Wild World, and like the people who wear them, Badge Bomb buttons gotta be free and expressive.

Amanda is showing off her tokidoki badge bomb button love bag.

Mary and Craig really know about enthusiasm when it comes to wearing their buttons.

Where can you find Badge Bomb next?

They can be anywhere! They were spotted at San Francisco’s Treasure Island Music Fest. It’s up too you wear they go.

If you want to see more Badge Bomb in the Wild get your camera, pen, or paint ready for the next contest coming your way so stay tuned for the details!

All Badge Bomb buttons, magnets, and packaging are made in Portland, Or by One Inch Round.

Interview with Noah Lyon

SG: Please tell us about yourself?

NL: Let me answer that question by answering the next 14 questions.

SG: Where do you currently live and work?

NL: New York City

SG: What mediums do you work with?

NL: I’ll take a medium and take it to the extreme. So it would be way more than medium, more like maximum. Maximum rock’n’roll. Maximum markers. I use paper too. But maximum doesn’t always mean the biggest it also could be, like, the smallest. So I’ll take a 1”x 1” piece of paper and make the most incredible drawing ever, nowhere near medium, if it were a pepper it would be the most hot and if it were Bob Marley it would be the most high. One-inch drawings turn into one-inch buttons & I’ll make the most of that too. Like make the maximum amount of buttons. I think 50,000 might be the max. Anyways that’s where I’m at right now. Way beyond medium. Push it to the limit, walk along the razor’s edge. I’ll make a painting with no paint. Is that medium or minimum? I try to work as little as possible. Minimum work, maximum results, any medium, bring it on.

SG: Describe your working process when creating a new work.

NL: Like I said no work is the best work so usually I’ll take something old and try to pass it off as new. I do work about 10 years in advance just so I can sit around doing nothing all day. That’s conceptual art.

SG: What kind of things do you do when you get blocked or find it hard to create something?

NL: I pull my boxers up to my nipples and walk around the house. You’d be surprised. A lot of really old men do that with their pants. They wear the waist of their pants around the middle of their chest. That’s where I get a lot of my ideas from, the elderly. So I’ll strip down to underwear & yank them up really high. That’s pretty much the equivalent of me putting on my thinking cap. Who the cap fit, let them wear it, that’s what I always say. For my birthday (September 11th - gifts and honorariums are always welcome) my wife is going to buy me a rasta hat with big dreadlocks attached to it. I think that should help with the creative process. I also like prune juice. I make my own corn syrup free Dr. Pepper. The secret ingredient is prune juice. That’s one reason people call me Doctor Ninja.

….. read the entire interview here on the Spraygraphic Blog