Our Favorite Enamel Pins of the Week: #7

 

As the founder of Strike Gently Co, I deal in pins and patches on a daily basis. The Creators Project asked me to pull together a weekly roundup of the best newly-released pins. Most of these will probably sell out. If you like them, smash that “add to cart” button. Every Wednesday, you can head to the bottom of this article for an exclusive discount code so you can keep your pin game sharp.  

Spring has sprung. Denim jackets have turned into denim vests, or, for the true patricians, leather vests. I’m not cool enough to wear any sort of vest and so I’ll have to find something else to put all of these pins on, because they’re really fantastic. Week by week I’m continually stoked by the ingenuity and creative energy of all of these little companies. Go support them, young fashionistas! Spend your FUN money on pins instead of supporting oppressive South American regimes!

Lil Bullies Club

 

You can have die-cast pins made of just about any reasonably sized object. Supreme did middle finger pins once. But why not replicate a bar of Xanax for people to show off in gold on their lapel? It’s sort-of the ultimate millennial gift: an imagistic presentation of recreational pharmaceutical use. Hey, it’s what we were raised on…

$8.00 here.

Ball & Chain Society

 

Ball & Chain are an anomaly because they consistently put out some of the best pins and patches available in the world and yet manage to also be one of the lowest-priced shops I’ve seen yet. Many of their designs draw from tattoo imagery but also the rich art historical lineage of the macabre… The darker, the better. Grab this perfect pin and check out some of their other stuff.

$6.99 here.

Feral Social

 

Feral Social’s goods are for the pin connoisseur who doesn’t mind spending slightly more for beautiful stuff that’s pushing the boundaries of pins and helping collectively to make the trend more than just a trend. As I’ve said before, these are tiny works of art. One of the goals of design was to bring art back into the people’s hands. Enamel pins are literally made using, yes, enamel. You’re buying a tiny painting by a tiny artist. It’s worth it when it’s good.

$12.00 here.

Rent Your Plants

 

This wouldn’t be a good article without some pointed post-internet ironic commentary on America’s visual value system, right? Rent Your Plants makes weird vaporwave-type art but also has a shop where they occasionally sell products like this, a bootleg of a bootleg of every pickup truck driver’s favorite bumper sticker. That’s the beauty of Calvin—you can buy a bumper sticker of him pissing on anything. Doesn’t matter if it’s Trump or Bernie, gun rights or hippies. Calvin’s the great equalizer. Rent Your Plants, ever Nietzschean, questions this and asks us poignantly, “What if Calvin is really just pissing on another Calvin?” Truly remarkable.

$6.00 here.

Hypist

 

Thanks to Japan and skateboarding, BDSM is now beloved by punks and hypebeasts alike. Hypist just released this wonderful bondage-inspired pin that echoes Drake as much as it does Araki. I mostly love their Instagram, where they post pictures of their pins of various branded products and then ironically thank those same brands in their posts. Millennial seal of approval.

$10.00 here.

This week’s discount code is SPRUNG. Use it on Strike Gently Co’s site for 20% off any order. Stay tuned next week for five new pins and a new special secret code.

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