This is our second year working closely with our friends over at the Fresh Film Festival. 

The Fresh Film Festival was founded almost twenty years ago as part of the Limerick Film Festival. Over the years, its has grown into a competition to for young people and teenagers to develop intrepid young filmmakers all across Ireland. 

The Regional Heats are kicking off in Galway, Limerick, Cork and Dublin over the next couple of weeks. 

We've had some brilliant news into the HQ this week.

Over the summer we applied to the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI) and we're ecstatic that Spike Badges has been accepted as an Associate Member.

Time for a mini-party with baby lemon bundt cakes!

Cute large button badges we made for Limerick Arts Office for Culture Night next week. If you're around Limerick next week, you may even nab one at one of the venues!

Last year the folks over at MKAI got in touch looking for badges for Electric Picnic. They did such an amazing job, they were invited to come back again this year and asked us to whip up a pile of badges for them. You’ll find MKAI rocking out at the Oxjam tent on Friday at 8pm.

Best of luck to our friends over at The Statics, who’ll be playing the Oxjam tent on Sunday at 10pm. 

We love upcycling and recycling so our release for this week is our snazzy Upcycled Security Pattern INSERT LINK badges and magnets.

We’ve been saving up security patterns for the last few months and we’ve gathered simply stunning geometrical designs. There’s literally hundreds if not thousands of alternative security patterns but we’ve a fine collection started and we’ll keep on going. We love them lots, hope you love them too!

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.