Badges to Encourage Communication on London Underground

In an attempt to encourage people to talk to each other on the Tube an American in London has been giving away badges in Underground stations. Jonathan Dunne's badges are printed with the words 'Tube Chat?' and have received a mixed response.

It's definitely an interesting use of a badge and shows how badges could be used to encourage a particular behaviour in real time and not just to display a message. However not all Londoners share Dunne's enthusiasm for chatting with strangers on public transport. A number of parody badges have been produced in response with messages like "No chat please, we're British".

Mattress Mick Documentary Badges

We recently made these great badges for the documentary Mattress Men which tells the story of how a furniture salesman in his sixties became the legend that is Mattress Mick. The badges are 58mm and turned out really well. 

Mattress Men has it's premier at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto this Tuesday 3rd May 2016 and earlier today Mattress Man and director Colm Quinn appeared on Toronto's News Channel CP24 to talk about the documentary. If you look closely at the image below you'll see Colm was wearing one of the badges. Maybe we should make "as seen on TV" our new slogan.

Watch a clip from Mattress Men