No.203 YOU ARE

Badge by Anneloes Van Gaalen

Anneloes Van Gaalen

No.202 I AM HERE

Badge by Livia Rossi

"My first reaction, when I saw for the first time the T-shirt my badge would go on, was the one of standing back. I find it strange to see me, a bit of me on a map of England. In a way it makes it really clear to myself that I’m here. It’s six years I live in London, but I keep telling myself it’s just a temporary solution. At the same time I don’t really wish to go back. Definitely not now. Italy it’s not the best place to be at the moment. And I consider myself lucky not to be there and have to deal with the daily frustration of seeing a beautiful country falling into decay.

I consider myself an existential migrant. Someone that left their home country by choice and not by any form of necessity, and that enjoys the status of foreigner.

I Definitely like being an outsider, it offers a much better observing perspective on things.

At the same time though I have a terrible need to belong.

If I could, I would live a life in between. A bit here and a bit there.

So here is my badge. It states “I’m here” (England), but the landscape I tried to recreate next to it, it’s a different one. It’s made out of glass and pebbles from the beaches of the Amalfi coast, near my home town.

You might argue that I completely stripped it of what a badge suppose to be: really graphic and easy to reproduce.

If it has to be my badge it couldn’t have been made in any different way: a bit of sanding, lots of hammering and a mini collection of badges with holes in them (that’s what happens when you try to hammer too hard with bad quality punch letters into a badge).

I deeply enjoy making."

Livia Rossi

No.201 WIGHTY

Badge by Jemma Austin

JemaA
@TheStouche your teeshirt is missing the Isle of Wight. Though not asked, my badge would be: where the fuck did wighty go?

TheStouche
@JemaA the isle of white is kind of incorporated into the bottom. Nice idea though!

JemaA
@TheStouche Is it? Is it really?

TheStouche
What typeface would you use to make the Wighty badge? Would it be capitals, lower case or sentence case? Also what colours? @JemaA

JemaA
@TheStouche let me ponder this. Something nice and rounded. Colours would match the tee but wight would be white. I'll draw something.

TheStouche
@JemaA don't ponder too long!

Jemma Austin

No.200 200 OK

Badge by Mike Patrick

"Hey, don't get me wrong - I love failure as much as the next guy. OK, so a little more. But that isn't to say errors are all I wanna see, all the time. So fuck it: this badge is about success. Specifically, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request success.

"Possibly lesser known than its cousin, the infamous 404 Not Found, 200 OK is the standard response for successful HTTP requests. Sure, as HTTP statuses go, maybe 200 comes across a little goody two shoes, or maybe even smug? I hear you, 'but, 404 is cool', '404 is baaaad', 'Homestar Runner endorses 404'. And yeah, you're right, but 200 has its charms, too. It's upbeat and optimistic. Yet it just doesn't overstate it, never blows any single success out of proportion.

"Since I've been working with the protocol a fair bit recently, and Stu's own homepage is currently a tribute to the popular 404, 200 OK's the only response I felt comfortable offering to the brief to design Badge No. 200. So here you go ;)

URLs:
http://hrwiki.org/w/images/0/03/404.PNG
http://www.aswellasdesign.com/ "

Mike Patrick

No.199 SAVE STU

Badge by Gerlin Heestermans

"I personally feel my badge design is far from genius compared to other badges Stu did or the two last designers did. I'm just not a designer. However, I did want to make one because I feel it is important to support Stu in what he does. I blogged about him months ago when the project had only just started. Never would I have thought it'd grow out to be something so great. So first I thought I'd do a 'Support Stu' badge but that sounded a little stupid. But supporting him is definitely the idea behind it, I believe more people should do it. Then I thought of 'Ferris Bueller's Day off', one of my favourite films. There's a scene with a big balloon saying 'Save Ferris' which is pretty funny if you know the film. Anyway, it sounded nice to say 'Save Stu' and also a little silly. I guess the point doesn't instantly come across but that's okay.

"You think this is ok? I'm not quite sure what to say in relation to the t-shirt but I feel that it's not necessary.”

Gerlin Heestermans

No.198 Touch my face

Badge by Max Kropitz

In 1791 Edward Rushton founded a school for the blind in Liverpool, the school was the first of it's kind in Britain and the second in the World.

"Since people with a visual disability will not be able to see a person's face, they will usually ask if they can touch it to get a feel for the person's expressions and what they look like. This can cause awkward situations, since you would not usually touch someone's face if you have just met them. Wearing this badge signifies that you are open to this approach, and willing for visually impaired people to get to know you."

Max Kropitz

No.197 70% by 1%

Badge by Sam Hill.

"70% of land in the UK is owned by 1% of the population. Source: Anna Donaldson, Beacon PR, Jan. 2008"

"The function and purpose of all things is negotiable - as Stu has
illustrated, exhaustively - but badges often compel us to communicate in a
particular behaviour; concisely, assertively and visually: to others and to
oneself. The brief Stu provided implied many contextual layers and
audiences. In no specific order the communication to be designed was for a
badge, a map, a t-shirt, Stu, his following and perhaps less tangibly - an
imagined client, tutor or patron.

"Maps tempt me to draw from experience: "this is where I'm from", "this is
where I live", "this is where I went last summer" etc. Obviously, nobody
cares. Instead I set out to find the most interesting piece of information I
could on the British Isles, which turned out to be that the distribution of
land here is worse than Brazil (where it is a point of violent conflict)."

Sam Hill

MAKE ME A BADGE PLEASE

I have set a brief to a few people asking them to design a badge for this T-shirt.
Expectations + reasons not mentioned yet, as I don't want to influence thinking too much. But very excited to see what is produced.

T-shirt printed by T-shirt Dave

No.196 One part badge (b) ?

No.195 For part badge (c)

No.194 Four part badge (b)

No.193 Lino #3

This object will be made into a badge.

No.192 Lino #2

No.191 Lino #1

Lizzy Burt (e.a.b) reminded me that Lino existed, thank you.

No.190 SHARP POINT PRESENT

No.189 PostPost

"I'm so over post, I'm PostPost."
Made & drawn whilst waiting for things to arrive in the Post.

No.188 Blank Badge #12

No.187 pin hole pin

No.186 ballast

To help keep your feet on the ground, or if you are going down simply discard.

No.185 ;D (badge integrity reducing badge)

Badge integrity reducing badge.

183

To commemorate 1/2 a year of making one badge a day, I spent day 182-182.5 which worked out at around 11 hours doing this.. Images Here.



(Thank You Re: The inputting of the Inclination that this would/ could be worthwhile. - Ward, Feo, Mariscal, Peters, Sharpie & anyone else who can actually draw things they are thinking.)