Portal Buttons

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msleeper
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Posted Sep 22, 2008

Looks like someone over at Etsy.com is selling some Portal Hazard Sign and Achievement buttons:

Get them now before Valve shuts them down!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?li ... d=15450862

There are also some TF2 Achievement buttons too.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?li ... d=15430120

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Test Subject
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Posted Sep 22, 2008
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All buttons are sold out...
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Ricotez
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Posted Sep 23, 2008
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but before Valve shut them down!
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jrlauer
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Posted Sep 23, 2008
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You can go on zazzle.com and make your own buttons, or shirts, or what ever you want with Portal, even custom made postage stamps. They have a licensing agreement with Valve apparently.
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msleeper
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Posted Sep 23, 2008
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I think the guy is replenishing his stock, I think he makes them himself. I owe Hober $20 so I'll be buying him some!
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msleeper
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Posted Sep 23, 2008
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jrlauer wrote:
You can go on zazzle.com and make your own buttons, or shirts, or what ever you want with Portal. They have a licensing agreement with Valve apparently.

Yeah but can you make 30 different ones for only $20?

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jrlauer
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Posted Sep 23, 2008
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msleeper wrote:
Yeah but can you make 30 different ones for only $20?

Not sure, I never made any buttons. Custom made a shirt for $15.

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Hober
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Posted Sep 23, 2008
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jrlauer wrote:
Not sure, I never made any buttons. Custom made a shirt for $15.

Lolwut? The last time I used Zazzle for custom shirts (The F7 staff shirts), it was like $23 per shirt, after a bulk discount.

Ironically, it's for buying that shirt that msleeper owes me the sweet green.

The Etsy page wrote:
All the art was vectored by myself (using almost microscopic images)

I think that's the real value here. The original textures are not super-high res. Not nearly enough for print-quality buttons.

Edit: It's now 8:20AM EST and in the 10 mins since I wrote this post another bunch of the Portal buttons went up for sale. Hint, hint.

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jrlauer
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Posted Sep 24, 2008
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Hober wrote:
Lolwut? The last time I used Zazzle for custom shirts (The F7 staff shirts), it was like $23 per shirt, after a bulk discount.

Price depends on the quality of the shirt. I opted for the low end.

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Farragar
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Posted Sep 24, 2008
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These have been available on eBay for about 4 months now.
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Riven
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Posted Sep 30, 2008
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I just wanted to say:

I looked through them, and was like: "man, if only these were sold as magnets, I'd buy them." Sure enough, a little bit more investigation confirmed my suspicions. He sold all 30 of them as magnets, so I bought 'em!

-Needless to say, I'm quite pleased! He even sent the pin attachments for free so I can change them out anytime I want! Here they are:

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msleeper
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Posted Sep 30, 2008
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You need to make a cardboard Test Chamber sign with a metal backing where the warnings go.

Actually fuck, I might do that.

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Codapop
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Posted Oct 01, 2008
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inb4 wall of text -
I hope Valve doesn't shut me down. But if they tell me to.. I will...

I was BoingBoing'd in February along with notcot.org and some other random blogs. And I'm still here...

Every image was vectored to 300dpi from the standard 64px image or crappy screen shots. One of which I didn't realize was actually from PennyArcade... I'd feel like more of a dick if I stole straight from a google image search. (a lot of etsy/ebay users do it)

Really a one man band here. I draw, print, cut, press, ship, them all myself.

thanks for the post!
~Dylan
aka Slevin11 on Etsy

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msleeper
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Posted Oct 01, 2008
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Is there any way you could send me the high res vectors? I would kill for one of the Turret specifically!

Also, glad to see you here.

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Codapop
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Posted Oct 01, 2008
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I don't want to share all the vectors but I'd be happy to give out a few..

I'll have to dig up the raw files since I only ever see my print psd's.
I did half of them last December, the other half in I think Feb/March.

Pigsty of a harddrive...

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msleeper
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Posted Oct 01, 2008
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Fair enough, the Turret one is the only one I need I think. (EDIT The one of them bumping into eachother, and the one of it shooting the person.)

If you want some others to do (TWP promo pack?), check out the TWP Avatar Gallery in the user profile. Korjagun made those a while ago but he ragequit the community because he was a rebel.

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Codapop
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Posted Oct 01, 2008
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No luck finding the raws yet but I pulled those 2 off of my print sheet.
They aren't big.. but crisper than most on the net. Also transparency ftw

I put them here
http://codapop.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=shared.browse

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A.M.M.D.
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Posted Nov 20, 2008
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