Enamel Pin Projects
A brief review of enamel pin (and similar medium) designs by project.
Created with various means: Procreate, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, manufactured in China with various manufacturers.
Created with various means: Procreate, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, manufactured in China with various manufacturers.
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The Death of Jane Lawrence Pin
2021. Antiqued metal base, soft enamel, with embroidery thread.
Created for the release of Caitlin Startling's new novel about medicine and magic, The Death of Jane Lawrence. The pin design is based on the cover illustration by Colin Verdi, and is the first time I have attempted a mixed media pin! This is the first I have seen of threaded enamel pins, and I hope to make more creative designs like this in the future.
The Luminous Dead Pin
2021. Anodized rainbow metal with glowing soft enamel.
The other collaboration with Caitlin Starling in honor of her first novel, the sci-fi spelunking horror story of The Luminous Dead. Available for retail during open shop days.
Jägermeister Brand Ambassador Pins
2020. Nickel base pins with transparent hard enamel and screen printed details
Created for the brand ambassadors of Jägermeister. first foray into transparent enamels over dimensional metal. Clients requested personal identifiers for each representative and a hidden Jägermeister deer logo.
Hameowlton Pin Series
2019
Reappropriated from a project that fell through with a client, a set of thirteen pins were successfully crowdfunded via Kickstarter and are available for retail when my online shop is open for orders. Here are twelve of them.
Beam Suntory Challenge Coins
Causing a Stir 2018. Team Taco 2019. Soft enamel challenge coins.
Challenge coins to distribute to attendees of the Beam Suntory Causing a Stir event at Tales of the Cocktail in 2018, and for Team Taco participants at San Antonio Cocktail Conference in 2019. The Team Taco coin is especially personal to me as I have been an active volunteer for the organization since 2015 and wanted to incorporate as much imagery into the coin as I could to make it extra special. I designed it to look like a role of blue tape, and the style of my carnivorous foods series.
Sipsmith Activation Pins
2021. Copper base pins with Hard enamel and chain detailing.
Created for two regional events in the Eastern US in 2021 hosted by Sipsmith and inspired by the corresponding illustration. Dapper Mr. Swan checks his pocket watch to see that it is indeed Sips o' Clock, and the martini glass gets a vaporwave Miami makeover in Sips and Sunsets.
Get off the Fence Pin
2018. Powder coated base and soft enamel
This is the first pin I ever designed, it was created for Courvoisier cognac and Sipsmith gin in their "Battle of the French 75s" ongoing events.
These are some of the original images that inspired the pin
Miss Daisy Dee Branding Pins
2019 - Present. Various styles of pins.
Trinket pin created as a gift for subscribers to my twitch and patreon pages for over a year, it is a hard enamel nickel pin with glowing puke, glittered eyes, and screen printed details. Based on my ongoing branding.
The moth and jackalope designs (along with other twitch sub badges) are used to check quality of manufacturers when I don't have a pin design in the pipeline. For now they are inconsistent and priced lower than they would be if they were a full set.
