Anyone here have experience designing and selling enamel pins + knows a reliable place to order them from? I would enjoy looking into it and learning to do so, even if I just ended up with a bunch of silly pins to give away.
@zens That's brave! I don't think I'll be hand-making them; too difficult for me.
@metkis oh! then what? is there a service?
@zens Yeah, that's what I'm asking about. I'm not sure of a reliable service that can help with the manufacture side.
@metkis passing along advice I got from Jonathan Sims who has made some beautiful pins:
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@metkis βSo I mostly just looked at other template references and then built a template from scratch based on my designs.Β It's attached. It's absolutely crucial that it is a vector file. You also will need to figure out the pantone colors, and choose which type of metal you want.
My reference info is probably a lot more than in necessary, but I wanted to put together something really solid that I could send out to a bunch of companies.β
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@metkis
β I went with Pinpoint [seems to be closed now]
The next best option would have been Pin Game Strong.Β http://www.pingamestrong.com
Pinprosplus.com andΒ thepinpeople.com andΒ qualitylapelpins.com are also worth looking at.β
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@metkis this is from a chat in 2016, but I hope still useful! Good luck!
@tendigits whoa thank you so much!!
@metkis gosh my mom used to do enamel. i donβt know about designing and selling them, but i know that making them by hand is a whole fucking thing involving a kiln