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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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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
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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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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!
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Kris Johnsen
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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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Meagan Anderson
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Meagan Anderson
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Kris Johnsen
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Meagan Anderson
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