After 6 successful years we have out grown our dear old and beloved website bandbadges.com.au and thus moved operations to a new and improved website. We’re not just for bands anymore!

All of those out there who fear change - Fear Not! As we will still offer the same great custom badge products, service and speedy turnarounds you love us for as well the convenience of a seamless ecommerce checkout and expanded product range.  Allowing you to take full advantage of all the functionality the web has to offer the astute shopper plus range of great new badge, magnet and key ring products!

Custom Made Promotional Badges
Our staple supply of custom made badges has been expanded to include 25mm, 55mm and 75mm diameter badges.  View custom made badges.

Custom Made Magnets
Just like our promotional badges, except for your fridge!  Badge fronts with heavy duty magnet backs in sizes 25mm and 55mm. View custom made magnets.

Custom Made Key Rings
New fantastic plastic round key rings! 35mm diameter key rings with your design on front and back. View custom key rings.

These are just a few of the new products we will be offering at our new home makebadges.com.au.  Please take some time to see all the improvements we have made and let us know what you think at info@makebadges.com.au.

Formerly www.bandbadges.com.au, now www.makebadges.com.au!

Make Badges
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Thornbury VIC 3071
Tel. 03 9016 4416
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In 2001, Brendt Barbur, Founder and Director, was compelled to start the Bicycle Film Festival after being hit by a bus while riding his bike in New York City. Instead of being deterred by this experience, it inspired him to create a festival that celebrates the bicycle through music, art, and film. Now in its ninth year the festival is held in 39 cities worldwide. 250,000 people are expected to attend this year.

The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle in all forms and styles. If you can name it - Tall Bike Jousting, Track Bikes, BMX, Alleycats, Critical Mass, Bike Polo, Road Cycling, Mountain Biking Recumbents - we’ve probably either ridden or screened it. What better way to celebrate these lifestyles than through art, film, music and performance?

The Bicycle Film Festival is on now across Australia and across the world through out November, view the Bicycle Film Festival program here and visit their webiste proper for all the pedal powered action at http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/

Roughly based on similar projects in London, Berlin and in particular the DUMBO Collective; a market set up by artists under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York - The Rose St. Artists’ Market utilises a former junkyard in the back streets of Fitzroy to display the work of up to 70 artists and designers each Saturday and Sunday, some emerging and some more established.

In a city brimming with creativity, there’s no telling what products you might find. From quirky furniture design and stunning fashion through to intricate jewellery and unique paintings. In fact, over 600 individuals are listed on our growing catalogue of artists and designers here each week selling everything from the wacky to the wonderful!

The Rose St. Artists’ Market has taken a fresh approach to the traditional market concept giving you the opportunity peruse the numerous displays, collect, source and commission unique works; and of course meet, greet and speak with artists and designers in person.

Be sure to head to the Rose Street Artist Market on any given Saturday, great gifts, great people and badges, badges badges!

http://www.rosestmarket.com.au/

Feltpets.com, make the cutest, smallest, most life-like felt pets we have ever seen. Ok, these are they only felt pets we have ever seen, but that shouldn’t stop you from checking them out (especially the Dachshund) and perhaps commissioning your own life-like interpretation of your fur-kid in the medium of felt.

These are truly amazing, the amount of time and effort and attention to detail is definitley worth checking out! Feltpets.com

Put simply - “Little hand-painted people, left in London to fend for themselves…”

You can see more of slinkachu’s Little People and more at the blog, be sure to pick up some Little People badges while your there!

Aged between 14 and 28? Got something to say?

Turn It Up! is a huge competition brought to you by NOISE and SBS.  And they want you to get creative and share your stories about the issues affecting your community. Theres $12,000 worth of prizes up for grabs, as well as an internship with SBS and the opportunity to have your work showcased on NOISE and across SBS Radio, Television and Online.

Head to Noise or SBS for all the fine print.

weAreTheImageMakers presents 12×12. 12 Aussie Artists, 12 artworks each on a 12 x 12 canvas. 

12 x 12 is back for another year, featuring the very very best of Australian artistic talent with works from everyone (well technically 12 everyones) from apeseven to jeremyville to miso the show will be a-showing in sydney and melbourne in june / july 2008.

Head to weAreTheImageMakers for more info, but here are the dates for all you quick-fixers out there.

sydney 

aMBUSH gallery
4A james street, waterloo
www.ambushgallery.com
opening night - friday 20 june 2008, 6pm-9pm
exhibition - saturday 21 june to saturday 5 july 2008
gallery hours - wednesday to saturday, 12pm-5pm
melbourne

no vacancy gallery
27-33 red cape lane, melbourne
www.no-vacancy.com.au
opening night - friday 18 july, 6pm-9pm
exhibition - saturday 19 july to friday 25 july 2008
gallery hours - seven days - 10am-5pm

Shaw Brothers Classics: Monkey - Journey To The West

Born from an egg on a mountain top, the monkiest monkey there ever was…

Brought to popularity by the 1970s television show Monkey, the story of the Monkey King and his pilgrimage to India is a well-known tale. The show was based on the classic Chinese story Journey to the West, written in 1590s during the Ming Dynasty it is a fable that has been retold in books, opera, theatre, film and television.

This collection brings together the four film versions made by the iconic Shaw Brothers studio in the 1960s.

Monkey - Journey To The West is available for Siren Visual http://www.sirenvisual.com.au/ along with a mess of other good stuff, including Penn and Teller, Red vs. Blue and more!

A quick reminder of the art exhibition opening going on this week, check it!

Patchwork Blanet Poster Launch this Tuesday the 6th of May at Horse Bazzar on Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne from 6pm. Then back it up with A Very Blimey Exhibiton on Wednesdaythe 7th of May at 696 on Sydney Road, Brunswick from 6 - 9pm. Both events will tingling with creativity and excitment be sure to get in on the action. Scroll down the blog a wee way to get more info on both events!

Seriously, blanket is an amazing FREE magazine bound to get your creative bones, well… creating I suppose.  Don’t linger on that sentence too long as it starts to sound a little blue, just move on to thinking about all the wondrous coalescence that will attend the launch of the first ever Patchwork Blanket Poster. Whilst your at the launch be sure to pin down the members of blanket crew and pry (and ply) them for the details of the fantastic button badges they created with the help of the artistic posse and BandBadges.com.au. See you there! Visit blanket magazine.