DePaul Entrepreneurship Center Buttons

Coleman Entrepreneurship Center 3-inch Button

Where do business owners go to develop themselves?  The DePaul University Coleman Entrepreneurship Center offers classes like Finance for Non-Financial Business Owners through the Business Owner Academy, and a Peer Roundtable forum moderated by experienced executives that discuss the challenges of running a company.

The Coleman Center is a business education destination, and they use branded buttons to engage people.  Their holiday gift shown here is a 3-inch button made by Busy Beaver with an inspirational quote by Walt Disney.  Pin it on as a reminder that “If you dream it, you can do it.”

Click here to learn more about the Coleman Center and become a member.  Click here to learn about the eMerge Alumni Council that connects graduates with DePaul.

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New Button-O-matic Series is GOLD

Busy Beaver Button-O-matic Series 10 is curated by Dustin Hostetler aka Upso

Investing in gold and art is for everyone.  Join Busy Beaver Button Company to celebrate the Grand Opening of its new headquarters with a new Button-O-matic series featuring the first-ever 24-karat gold buttons on August 8, 2009 in Chicago.

Series Ten curator Dustin Hostetler aka Upso from Threadless Select and Faesthetic Magazine used the theme “Currency” to organize artists like once-Gama Go contributor and pop painter Tim Biskup, Part & Parcel designer Damien Correll, Print Magazine’s 20 Under 30 New Visual Artists Jennifer Daniel, Fudge Factory Comics’ Travis Millard, 80s and 90s nostalgic designer Spacesick, psychedelic illustrator Ginette Lapalme, STEAK MTN designer Christopher Norris, the fantastical Luke Ramsey, technical artist Geoffery Todd Smith, and Brooklyn-based poster man Nicholas Gazin.

For a dollar or less, you can own a wearable piece of art available in thirty vending machines across the country.  Button-O-matic locations include Reckless Records in Chicago, Domy Books in Austin, and Giant Robot in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Busy Beaver makes 1-inch gold buttons available to everyone for customization through www.busybeaver.net

Third Man Records Hosts Button-O-matic

Jack White opens Third Man Store with Button-O-matic

Busy Beaver Button Company is delighted to announce the presence of a custom Button-O-matic at the Third Man Records pop up store located at 131 Chrystie Street between Broome and Delancey in New York City.  Checkout cool Jack White-driven merchandise on July 16 and 17 only.

Upon request, the Button-O-matic vending machine is filled with Third Man and Dead Weather buttons.  Will you send photos when you see it?

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Depression Era Celluloid Pins

Johnson Smith Buttons

A friend from Drag City Records in Chicago shared this awesome Johnson Smith Company catalog of buttons.  Busy Beaver Buttons collects the “Confucius says” pins made by the same company circa 1934 from Detroit.

Johnson Smith started in 1904 making novelties in Australia, moved to Chicago, Michigan, Wisconsin, and still does business to this day, over a century later, in Florida.

The catalog explains how buttons are an ice breaker:

These Buttons provide subjects for pleasant jokes an amusing conversation, and thus smooth the way to a more familiar acquaintance and cordial friendship.  They are very wittily worded and quite unobjectionable.  Wear one and see the effect.

Are these buttons icebreakers…or pick up lines?  You decide:

Slip it to me

It’s Right Here for You

Smile Darn You Smile

I am the Vampire Kid

Pretty forward-looking for 1930s pop culture, don’t you think?  What’s the 2009 version of these buttons?

Click here to read about Johnson Smith Company history.

Click here to order custom buttons from BusyBeaver.net

Johnson Smith Buttons