draw it up, cut it out and badge it.

These things were rarer than dodo poo at Christmas, but as soon as the rush died down I crept into Woolies and bought one. So far, we’ve used up about half the pins and plates that came with it, and I know that the refills are expensive. You can get a Badge it from the usual outlets for about 20quid, which I think is pretty good. For us mac people, there wasn’t a template or anything (its so low-fi), but I made my own in photoshop using various layers so that you know what it’ll look like. The one above isn’t great, and I think the random ones down work so well as the personalised ones that I’ve attached to cards (homemade cards are transformed, and people don’t think you’re cheap – hey it took me ages!) I will happily post any badges that people send me and I will try to figure out posting .pdf’s so that you can all grab a template and a page of badges. Imakethings suggested I look at wear it with pride a lovely site that features tons of badges and even allows submissions. Its lovely to see something so simple and un-techy and cool out in the shops for everyone to use. I’ve started to see bespoke badges everywhere lately, on the train and in the supermarket and I think most of them were made with a Badge it.