Category Archives: News
Anonymous Submission
We have been uploading all of those templates we have been holding on to, so if you have submitted something in the last few months it will be showing up soon in our “Scans” section to your right. Please click … Continue reading
Anonymous Submission
We have been uploading all of those templates we have been holding on to, so if you have submitted something in the last few months it will be showing up soon in our “Scans” section to your right. Please click … Continue reading
1inch Custom Pins!
Pricing has changed slightly and we are again offering 3/4 inch stickers placed on the backs of pins, perfect for web addresses. Pricing: 100+ Buttons .30 cents each (100 for $30.00) *Minimum order 200+ Buttons .29 cents each (200 for … Continue reading
Beaux And Arrow Pins
Beaux & Arrow: Of Art and Fashion. **LAUNCHING: Friday, June 3 from 5pm-8pm, Portland Museum of Art** during First Friday Art Walk. Kris Johnsen and Hannah Tarkinson have blurred the lines between art and fashion by creating Beaux & Arrow- … Continue reading
Portland Pins, Back In Action!
It’s been a few quiet months on the site, though we have been keeping busy making custom pins. With Summer coming back around, the project will be back in full swing, thanks in part to the help of a new … Continue reading
Holiday Sales!!!
This December Portland Pins and myself Kris Johnsen from Emblem Studio will be at a few Holiday Sales. Please stop by and say hi! Shop-A-Do Craftastic Art Sale – SPACE Gallery. Friday 12.03.2010, Starts at 5:00 PM, Ends at 9:00 … Continue reading
New Templates and Trinket & Fern!
We have brand new templates! Please go download one and make some awesome new pins to put in our new pin machine location. Our 25 cent machine is now located at Trinket & Fern, located at 172 Middle St. in … Continue reading
New Pin Templates!
We’ve just posted a revised template for you to submit your own Portland Pins designs on. Print out as many of the sheets as you like and leave the completed designs at one of our drop boxes in Portland!
The Green Hand Bookshop!
Our new location for Portland Pins is at The Green Hand Bookshop! We just brought the pin machine over there this morning. We’re reallly excited about putting the machine here, we’ve been talking about it since the bookstore opened, and … Continue reading
Pecha Kucha At SPACE Gallery Tonight
We know this is late notice, but we wanted to tell you that we (Bryan and Kris) will be doing a Portland Pins presentation at the Pecha Kucha Portland event at SPACE Gallery tonight! Doors open at 6:30 pm and … Continue reading
Find has a new website!
Find has a new website up! If you dont know what Find is it is a selective second hand clothing store in beautiful downtown Portland, Maine. We offer a carefully curated inventory of vintage, modern and designer clothes for men … Continue reading
Words and Images
We recently had the opportunity to make buttons for Words and Images which is a literary journal published by the University of Southern Maine. Designs by Aubin Thomas!
Pins on the cover of movies and albums!
WRBC blog pins
Recently got an order from WRBC, who we have done pins for before, they have a very cool music blog which you should check out! If you live on campus you might be lucky enough to grab one of these … Continue reading
Hope For Haiti
Recently had the opportunity for make some pins for Haiti, They will be on the road with some musicians and all the profits will be donated to Haiti.
The last batch of pins made
Here’s the last batch of pins I made before returning the Pin Machine back to Find this morning!
Brzowski
Recently made a bunch of pins for local musician Brzowski, please check out his Myspace for some awesome music and go see him live, by the looks of his schedule he’s been a busy man! Jan 27 2010 10:00P LIKE … Continue reading
PICNIC! + We’re In The Papers
We’ll be at the PICNIC Holiday Sale today with a table, where we’ll have the pin machine, as well as our own photo and illustration prints and pins for sale. Come say hi! We were excited to open up a … Continue reading
Mail in your Pins!
You can mail in your Portland Pins if you dont live in the Portland area, or cant get to one of our drop off boxes, located at SPACE Gallery, Eli-Phant and The Art Mart. You can download a template in … Continue reading
