12 Limited Edition Badge Sets. Each set contains 4 handmade badges, lovingly crafted from 1970s cookery books by my own fair hands. each pack is unique. Available to buy for just £3 per pack. Available on my sunday stall in person and also via email bunny@wonderleague.co.uk (same method as shop orders) until i get a chance to update the shop.
Bunny
UPDATE 15.10.07: At the flea yesterday two lovely customers informed me that my food badges were featured on the created in birmingham blog (thanks pete!) which is lovely but then I'm slightly peeved by the comment when someone basically politely implies that I rip off mark pawson. I don't want to get really defensive about this and rant on but im a big fan of mark pawson and id like to point out how seem as mark is a legendary and established badge maker it is pretty difficult for anyone else to make packs of badges without obvious comparissons, I was not aware of Mark's food badges (made from take away flyers) when I made my own food badges (made from 1970s cookery books). Its pretty damn hard to make 100% original anything in this day and age and the bottom line is what makes a mark pawson badge so great is that mark pawson made it! and what makes my badges great and unique is that I personally made them! For the record I also make other badge sets, nothing like a mark pawson badge set:
An yes you'll see I sell a set of badges made from the fabric of my very own dresses, well before i discovered mark's favourite shirt badge sets, so shoot me! I also love collecting things, making things from things personal to me, use a print gocco, sell trading cards and like pee wee herman but i'm pretty sure me and mark pawson aren't the same person. (although, have you ever seen us in the same room...)
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Not to mention the irony of being accused of ripping off someone who's based his whole career on appropriating found images!
too true! thanks for the defense and thanks for the mention in the first place!
S'okay. I discovered Pawson through the zine world in the mid-90s. He sort of overlapped with the Slab-O-Concrete related comics scene a bit and would do stalls at small press fairs. I guess he was a big influence on my thinking in some way, though I wouldn't like to say how. Practically there was the "photocopier as art tool" thing (I used to be a bit of a Xerographer before the internet took over my life) but there was something more philosophical about it too.
So when I see people like yourself doing similar things it makes me happy, not because of the surface similarities but because it's an indication that that sort of thinking is going on. And that's a good thing.
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