MakerMinds at FIT

Badges, buttons and pins have been around for more than a century. Now the new T-shirt, they are in art exhibits, on the lapels and bags of hipsters and fashionistas and in the sketches of the hottest designers. In Badge/Button/Pin Gavin Lucas explores the button's history since 2000 as a decorative item, revenue-raising scheme or promotional opportunity. This guide to the best and most beautiful buttons includes a set of specially commissioned buttons.

Between the optimism at the birth of Rock 'n' Roll and the disillusion of Punk, the Pop generation created a lifestyle which reached its apogee in 1966 in 'swinging London', and San Francisco's 'summer of Love' in 1967.

Craftivism is a worldwide movement that operates at the intersection where craft and activism meet. With interviews and profiles of craftivists who are changing the world with their art, and through examples that range from community embroidery projects (such as stitching in prisons, revolutionary ceramics, AIDS activism, yarn bombing and crafts that facilitate personal growth) Craftivism provides imaginative examples of how crafters can be creative and altruistic at the same time.