The idea for these button badge mock-ups came as a result of a number of experiences since I moved to Birmingham. The theme: the oddities of interpretations of place names in Birmingham derived from typos, spell-check suggestions, mispronunciations and adolescent mischief.
The full set, should you want to turn them into badges yourself, is here.
via BiNS.
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I just HAD to click on this, and I found this greatly amusing :D This, a B:iNS pin and a Bostin T-shirt and you could truly say I was a posterchild for the Midlands.
Love the badges -
Ha! Born
Ties Leigh
SPAR Kill
Herding Tonne
!Chelle Done?
hehe. well cool.
I said I was going home to Halesowen the other night to a guy and he thought I’d said ‘Hell Zone’