About Make Badges

At Make Badges, making top-quality personalised badges is our passion. With 20 years of experience, we are experts in helping you communicate your creativity for promotional or personal means.

Mission Statement

Since 2004, our mission has been to provide the very best custom badges and materials to drive creativity and genuine expression among businesses, organisations and individuals.

Our custom badge solutions offer individuals and groups the opportunity to instil their personality into their designs and speak their values.

Whether a business or individual engages with our products and services, we provide them with the means to express their passions and identity with eye-catching designs.

Vision Statement

Our vision for the future speaks to our general mission statement: to provide the very best service to our business clients and individual customers and be a go-to provider for self-expression and authenticity.

We’re much more than a badge-making company. 

Our products serve a practical purpose in many settings, from promotional materials for businesses to essential guidance in organisations and schools (think of school badges and other materials that help children more easily navigate their early schooling days).

Badges, keyrings, magnets and zipper pulls are also key opportunities for personal expression. We believe in people living authentically, and that’s why we also provide products like protest badges and pronoun badges.

We’re driven by our continued vision to help businesses, organisations and groups, and schools experience positive growth. For individuals, our badges and other products offer a means of self-expression, simple communication, and a way of forging impactful connections with others.

On a personal level, our products provide the chance to celebrate our passions and values much in the same way we do with the clothing we wear, the stories we tell, and the interests we pursue. 

Origins

Make Badges was originally founded by Paul West under the name Band Badges.

He was inspired to start making badges 20 years ago while playing in a band. The band wanted classic 1-inch punk badges made as ‘band merch’. Paul had the great idea of making badges not only for his band but making them for other bands as well. 

He soon realised that local bands didn’t have a huge budget for merchandise, and the jaunty website he had created was garnering enquiries from many different corners of the community. With this realisation, the company’s name was quickly changed from Band Badges to Make Badges as we know it today.

As he also came from a background in website development, graphic design, and eCommerce, Paul was well-positioned to translate his skills into a setting of producing promotional materials such as badges, zipper pulls, magnets, key rings, and name tags. 

He built Make Badges as an online-based product and service provider that businesses, groups, and individuals alike could easily navigate and order from with ease.

Evolution

Over the years, as Make Badges grew, we implemented various quality-of-life improvements to the badge ordering and design process.

Along with allowing customers to submit their own custom designs through the use of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator or by making a quote request, we implemented a user-friendly Design Studio onto our website.

This Design Studio allows customers to easily customise their orders, including colour, images, graphics, text, finishing touches, fastener type (pin, clip, magnet) and more. The introduction of this Design Studio has made custom designs more accessible than ever to our base of wonderful clients and customers.

Accomplishments

Since our humble beginnings in 2004, Make Badges has grown from strength to strength. Nowadays, we produce over one million badges every single year.

Another key point of pride for us is the overwhelmingly positive response we’ve received from our thousands of wonderful customers over the years.

With hundreds of positive reviews, our customers inspire us to iterate and innovate upon our products, services and practices every day.

2024 marks our 20th year in business, and we couldn’t be prouder of our storied history and the growth we’ve achieved. It’s all thanks to the fantastic businesses, organisations, and people who’ve engaged with our services over the last two decades.

The future is looking bright for Make Badges, and we can’t wait to see what happens over the next 20 years. To those who’ve done business with us and those who will in the future, we can’t thank you enough.

If you need any personalised badges or other items, from custom name badges to Christmas decorations, we can make it a reality. 

You can order however many you want, customise the design as you see fit, and we’ll deliver with a quick turnaround.

If you have any questions or want to enquire about large orders or specific design requests, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.