The Swipe Festival is an exhibition space and online competition for all things digital in association with 2014 Limerick City of Culture. They asked us to make them some lovely button badges.

They’re running a competition for Primary and Secondary School students in Limerick, aged 8-18, to enter into four categories of Visual Communication, Digital Storytelling, Filmmaking & Animation and Apps & Coding. Winning entries will be included as part of an open exhibition in the Swipe Festival space. Final entry deadline closes on September 14th.

The lovely Sophia from Flowermoon Studio is attending the Duleek Fair this coming weekend. She’ll be selling her stunning artworks from Friday ’til Sunday and on Sunday she’ll be selling cards, tote bags and even some badges too! What a treat! 

If you’ve sharp eyes you’ll have noticed the refreshed packaging with our fabric badges. In the past when I sold at markets, I used a simple white card backing so I could pin the label to a cork board display. It was the best I could do at short-notice but it never quite hit the right note with me.

Over the last few months I’ve been in the cycle of designing, prototyping, and tweaking things, trying to work out the most beautiful way to display badges. Finally, I settled on the stunning luxury hessian and kraft card and dammit does it look fabulous.

For today’s release of new designs, we’re firmly sticking with lovely fabric designs. Each of these dazzling designs are designed and made by Spike Badges. And of course, they’re hand-pressed with love. You can now grab the stunning Origami Black Bear and Charcoal Fox designs individually or as a beautiful two-pack. 

Last year, our good friends over at Mad Hatter’s Kitchen got in touch looking for some custom badges. A few weeks ago popped us a mail and asked us to help them with their upcoming music festival kicking off this weekend!

Some custom birthday party badges we made recently. I don’t know about you, but I think it looks a lot like Walter White…

Say hello to our beautiful new sets of cotton fabric badges. Our Hello Sailor and Anchor badges and magnets are over in on Fabric Collection available in pale blue, marine blue and a lovely raspberry red.

Lovely pin badges we made recently for the folks over at Strandhill People’s Market.