Art in America Nov/Dec 1966 about avant guarde buttons from Park Place Gallery in New York.
Park Place buttons at the Busy Beaver Button Co. Button Museum opening September 10, 2010
This awesome article about Park Place op art buttons is courtesy of the Chicago Public Library! Read more about the first gallery in SOHO here.
Check out the original collection of Park Place badges at the Busy Beaver Button Co. Button Museum opening on September 10, 2010 in Chicago, while you’re at it.
What’s your favorite local band, dive bar, barbershop, and place to adopt a pet? The annual Chicago Reader poll Best of Chicago 2010 wants to know.
And you know what’s totally awesome? The Chicago Reader made custom 2.25-inch buttons with Busy Beaver Button Co. to spread their Best of Chicago campaign!
Click here to vote before June 6 and qualify to win fabulous prizes, like tickets to Cubs games and Pitchfork. Maybe next year there will be a “Best Button Company” category…
White Box Space hosts a Button-O-matic tonight for it's opening in Chicago
Revel in an evening of photography, drawing, film, paint, sculpture, and art buttons at the White Box Space in Chicago tonight. Get your glow-in-the-dark Busy Beaver Button-O-matic art in real time at 837 N. Western from 6PM to 10PM for one night only! Click here for the White Box Blog.
Fake Your Own Death Hosts Button-O-matic in Portland
There’s only one “collaborative mega mini zine” in the country hosting an original Button-O-matic Series, and that’s Fake Your Own Death, curated by Nathan McKee.
Join a host of artists at the award-winning, Portland coffee shop Fresh Pot on January 7, 2010 to celebrate the Busy Beaver Button-O-matic custom series of little one-inch buttons.
