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Find Portland Pins at:
- the Portland Museum of Art (7 Congress Square. Portland, ME)
- Pinecone + Chickadee (6 Free St. Portland, ME)
- Hello Hello (formerly Rock City Books - 316 Main St. Rockland, ME)
- The Oak + The Ax (140 Main St. Biddeford, ME)
The Portland Pins Project was created in 2009 by Bryan Bruchman (HillyTown) and Kris Johnsen (Emblem Studio) in Portland, Maine. We ask local artists to submit their own hand-made designs for 1" buttons that are sold in gumball machines!Categories
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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
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Tagged awesome, books, buttons, maine, pins, portland, portland pins, the green hand bookshop, toast
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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
Pins on the cover of movies and albums!
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Tagged album cover, buttons, johnny knoxville, movie cover, pins, portland pins
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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
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Tagged 1 inch pin, art, bates college radio, blog, buttons, custom, monkey, pins, portland pins, wrbc
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Kris Johnsen
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Tagged 1 inch pin, art, button, design, emblem studio, kris johnsen, maine, pins, portland pins
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Etsy finding
Here’s some very cool “almost” naked lady pins recently found on Etsy by Button Bistro 7.
Place setting
A very cool place setting idea!
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!
This boy Loves pins!
Ok so they might be badges. But they sure do look like pins to me!
Kris Johnsen
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Tagged art, buttom, design, emblem studio, kris johnsen, pins, portland pins
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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
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Tagged brzowski, buttons, http://www.myspace.com/brzowski, maine, music, pins, portland, portland pins, ryan lamunyon, tour
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Bryan Bruchman
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Tagged 1 inch pin, Bryan Bruchman, drawings, hand drawn, maine, pins, portland pins, template
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Portland Pins at Shop-A-Do!
Portland Pins we be at Shop-A-Do! this year, which falls on Dec. 4th and 5th at SPACE Gallery (538 Congess St.) in Portland. Come say hi, there will be new buttons as well as prints, posters and clothes at our … Continue reading
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Tagged clothes, emblem studio, maine, pins, portland, portland pins, posters, shop-a-do!, space gallery
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Portland Pins at Find
Go get your Portland Pins at Find, at 16 Free St. in Portland, Maine! Meet the owner of the store Laura Ker, pictured above holding a Bryan Bruchman original pin out of our machine.
Bryan Bruchman
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Tagged 1 inch pins, Bryan Bruchman, custom pins, design, drawing, maine, pins, portland, portland pins, template
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Bryan Bruchman
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Vintage Pins Seen This Weekend
This weekend I came across some interesting vintage 1″ pins. At the Big Chicken Barn I found a huge selection of pins (both 1″ and otherwise) including those pictured below (oddly placed on a hat covering a Phrenology bust) as … Continue reading