{"id":266,"date":"2004-03-07T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2004-03-07T13:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/uncategorized\/draw_it_up_cut_\/"},"modified":"2004-03-07T13:53:52","modified_gmt":"2004-03-07T13:53:52","slug":"draw_it_up_cut_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/print-design\/draw_it_up_cut_\/","title":{"rendered":"draw it up, cut it out and badge it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/designermagazine.tripod.com\/BadgeItREVIEW.html\">Badge it<\/a> from the usual outlets for about 20quid, which I think is pretty good. For us mac people, there wasn&#8217;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&#8217;ll look like. The one above isn&#8217;t great, and I think the random ones down work so well as the personalised ones that I&#8217;ve attached to cards (homemade cards are transformed, and people don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re cheap &#8211; hey it took me ages!) I will happily post any badges that people send me and I will try to figure out posting .pdf&#8217;s so that you can all grab a template and a page of badges. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imakethings.co.uk\">Imakethings<\/a> suggested I look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearitwithpride.com\/\">wear it with pride<\/a> 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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}