Public Image Ltd (PiL): Original Vintage 1970s 2" Bin Lid Button Badge
Public Image Ltd (PiL): Original Vintage 1970s 2" Bin Lid Button Badge
Info: Original vintage badge, in very good condition.
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Excellent piece about punk badges from Vice Magazine:
Joly MacFie and Better Badges have been involved in the punk scene since day one.
The UK button-badge manufacturer, created the first punk badge in West London in 1976 and between 1977-1984 became the leading publisher/merchandiser of punk and post-punk badges - exporting millions worldwide from their offices at 286 Portobello Road.
Considered a pioneer viral marketer, Better Badges helped fuel independent labels' fan-based promotion and the approximately 40 million badges they manufactured was crucial to the rise of punk around the world.
MacFie's principle was that anyone could afford and wear a badge, and that fans, rather than labels or the music industry, could dictate trends. He also branched into printing fanzines including Jamming! and Panache and what would eventually become the British street-style magazine i-D, but the one-inch punk badge is what he's best known for.
Image As Virus is a new exhibition at New York's 80 Washington Square East Gallery that celebrates the history of the punk badge and Better Badges.
The exhibition comes from the personal, 10,000+ badge collection of Kevin Pedersen, head of the Brooklyn-based What's Your Rupture record label and initiator of the Punk Badges Instagram site.
Image As Virus includes original badges designed by artists such as Peter Saville, Barney Bubbles, Jamie Reid, and Linder Sterling and rarely-seen original merchandise from bands such as Ramones, Buzzcocks,, Crass, Suicide, Joy Division, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Modern Lovers,and Motorhead.
(full article is on the Vice website)
Public Image Ltd (PiL): Original Vintage 1970s 2" Bin Lid Button Badge