Pressing 1,000 Buttons Is the Perfect Way to Complete an Elevator Button Factory Tour
An elevator button factory in Japan allows visitors to test its vast collection of buttons by pressing no less than 1,000 of them on a specially designed display. Shimada Denki Seisakusho is a specialized manufacturer of custom-made elevator buttons and arrival lights based in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1933, the factory is a piece of […]
Artist Creates Celebrity Portraits with Thousands of Suspended Buttons
Artist Augusto Esquivel is an expert at transforming mundane objects into spectacular works of art. One of his specialties is working with standard sewing buttons, which he uses to create stunning, larger-than-life celebrity portraits. Augusto’s technique is as tedious as you’d imagine – it’s not an easy arranging thousands of buttons to form an easily […]
English Artist Creates Detailed Button Mosaics
English artist Ann Carrington uses hundreds, sometimes thousands of everyday objects to create awe-inspiring mosaics. Not everyone looks at buttons, safety pins or metal coins and sees art, but for Ann Carrington, “all objects are saturated with cultural meaning. Mundane objects like knives, gloves, shoes, shells and tin cans come with their own ready-made histories.” […]
Meet Dalton Stevens – The Button King
Dalton Stevens, from Bishopville, South Carolina, has earned the title of Button King after he spent 15 years stitching and gluing thousands of buttons on all sorts of objects. The Button King’s story began one night in 1983, when his insomnia prevented him from falling asleep. Back then, television went off at two in the […]
The Button and Pin Artworks of Ran Hwang
Instead of using pins and buttons to stitch-up clothes, Korean-born artist Ran Hwang uses them to create gigantic installations in the shape of birds and cherry blossom trees. To create her unique artworks, Ran Hwang hammers thousands of needles into a wall and hangs colorful pins from them. Seen from up close, her pin and […]