Comments on: Hacker convention badges … http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/hacker-convention-badges/ Science fiction, science fact, and all that's in between ... Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: James http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/hacker-convention-badges/comment-page-1/#comment-92677 James Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:04:58 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/hacker-convention-badges/#comment-92677 I have some ideas: Holograms Flashing Lights Badges that play tunes like those birthday cards you open that sing. Can you do those for 70p? I have some ideas:
Holograms
Flashing Lights
Badges that play tunes like those birthday cards you open that sing.

Can you do those for 70p?

]]> By: Paul Raven http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/hacker-convention-badges/comment-page-1/#comment-92674 Paul Raven Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:45:25 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/hacker-convention-badges/#comment-92674 I was being ever so slightly facetious, Eddie ... but your point is well made. Maybe you could arrange to charge a 'funky badge supplement' for those who wanted them? ;) I was being ever so slightly facetious, Eddie … but your point is well made. Maybe you could arrange to charge a ‘funky badge supplement’ for those who wanted them? ;)

]]> By: Eddie http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/hacker-convention-badges/comment-page-1/#comment-92571 Eddie Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:14:57 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/hacker-convention-badges/#comment-92571 Speaking as someone who has produced con badges, I'd love to have done something like the above, if only I'd had a budget of more than 70p per badge, which to put it into context, is about half what it would cost to make just the lanyard on the above badge. Also, those badges don't appear to be name badges, and producing a few hundred identical badges is easier and cheaper than producing a few hundred unique badges. Still, one can hope, perhaps a con committee will see the value in spending 10 per cent of the con budget on the badges. In the meantime, all suggestions gratefully accepted, as I'll be making the badges for Redemption '09. Speaking as someone who has produced con badges, I’d love to have done something like the above, if only I’d had a budget of more than 70p per badge, which to put it into context, is about half what it would cost to make just the lanyard on the above badge. Also, those badges don’t appear to be name badges, and producing a few hundred identical badges is easier and cheaper than producing a few hundred unique badges. Still, one can hope, perhaps a con committee will see the value in spending 10 per cent of the con budget on the badges. In the meantime, all suggestions gratefully accepted, as I’ll be making the badges for Redemption ’09.

]]> By: James http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/hacker-convention-badges/comment-page-1/#comment-91541 James Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:41:36 +0000 http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/hacker-convention-badges/#comment-91541 Yes, SF needs more designers :-) Yes, SF needs more designers :-)

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