Print Media Pins

This was my final project for IMS 228. We were asked to create a design piece and implement it in the community. After I came across vintage LIFE Magazines at a flea market I decided I needed to use these in my portfolio piece. I utilized a craftivism technique and I created buttons from four different magazines from the years 1939 to 1972. I made 110 buttons and put them in three different locations with a sign that reads “If you aren’t going to read it, wear it!” I included a QR code to receive responses. My goal for this project is to subvert how people, prominently Miami students, typically think about how they receive their news and media and what people usually see at newspaper stands and have their eye go to the buttons before it usually goes to the papers.