I love the 1″ button. Really, for the tiny amount of space it takes up it’s such a cheap and efficient communicator. It struck home when I was at the post office and I noticed someone with the Matt B button pictured here, and had a little chat about his cartoons and such. It seemed to me a nice thing to wear your heart on your sleeve, or lapel, and allow for these social interactions to happen.

For years I’ve dressed in a non-descript fashion, to a certain extent due to my dislike of marketing. But I’ve let myself be backed into a corner–while I might not be shilling for a brand with my t-shirt, I’m also closing myself off from like-minded people I randomly encounter.

So I started wearing some buttons that people had given me or I’d bought but never worn. I also got a bunch of No Media Kings buttons made, as you may have been able to guess by the site redesign. If you’d like to get one, just let me know your addy–if you’d be OK with me filling the rest of the envelope with promo postcards for you to pass around your area, I’m happy to pop for postage. (UPDATE: Sorry, all out of buttons… sign up for the mailing list if you’d like to hear when I’ve got s’more…)

Read on to see some of the buttons that have been recently lounging on my lapel.

	Sandy Plotnikoff makes his buttons on his own button machine, which allows him to run J-cloths, velcro and any number of materials through it. I liked this one because it reminded me of a ghost (the holes in the once-white material exposed the silver metal of the button beneath) though the most common interpretation was that it was the other kind of clothes button.
	One of the Global Pop Conspiracy designs, as random and fun as their DJ nights and internet radio. Check out their contentious statement that big buttons is the new small buttons.
	I think probably the finest logo ever made for a zine, now in button form: Infiltration, the zine about going places you’re not supposed to go.
	Gayla and Davin do this great project called Recyclopedia, where they cut up encylopedias they find in garage sales and such and turn them into one-of-a-kind stationary and buttons.