not your mama’s buttons

Buttons can be a nugget of inspiration, a medium to display your creative ability, or just random bits of colorful imagery. For designers, “icons can communicate ideas in your design projects. They can communicate ideas through your buttons as well.”  smashingmagazine.com

Buttons are a transportable fun that we can carry pinned to our laptop case, purse, or jacket. Buttons are like tokens of our childhood. They are reminiscent of the playing cards we would trade, or the stickers we would place on everything.

I noticed a one of my classmates carries a bag-buttons clinging to the side-with her to class everyday. She is an illustrator, some of the buttons are her own creations. The buttons one chooses to pin to his or her belongings tells a lot about a person. “Buttons are powerful because they show what is important to the person wearing it, which ideas he or she supports and what kind of a person you are dealing with. Some buttons can make people pass away with a subtle smile, the other ones can send a message to the world, and as such, pose a very powerful medium to explore.” smashingmagazine.com

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