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.

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!

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

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:

http://www.oneinchround.com

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!

Check out Retard Riot AKA artist Noah Lyon’s awesome pinback button packs!

These six button packs feature some of Retard Riot’s coolest one inch art buttons!

Check out his home-grown button collection!

Check out the new button packs from Montreal’s “the cute institute”! Featuring Samurai, Geisha, cats, and more sweet treats!

Button packs available on the button packs page.

Or visit the cute institute’s button store here.

USA Made by One Inch Round Custom Buttons