We're excited to announce that production is in full swing! We just approved the final designs from the manufacturer, which means we're just about 15-20 days before we receive all the pins. This time around, we're printing over 1,500 pins which is more than we've ever done at once. Thank you again for your support!
Also! If you're interested, we figured it might be neat to share a bit of the process.
Most of the pins have a four-step manufacturing process.
Step 1 is picking the colors! This is usually done before the campaign even starts, but we go through different pantone options to make sure that the colors match closely to what we see on the computer screen.
Pre-Production Pantone Picking
Picking colors this time was slightly easier than usually because Pantone actually has official color swatches for the pride flags. We didn't use them in all cases to keep the artists vision, but we were able to use them in most of the phoenix designs.
Step 2 we get a picture of the pin with the enamel paint. They tend to look a little odd in this stage. And step 2 and step 3 also are kind of rough since the pins haven't been fully cleaned off yet.
Stage 1 - Paint Only
Step 3! We add some of the UV print effects to the pin
Stage 2 - Paint and UV Print
Step 4! Ok, so we don't have pictures of this step yet, but step 4 is that we'll get a picture of the final pin once they put the plating around it. This will give us the black edge that 95% of our pins thus far have had.
So, that's all for this update! We hope you've enjoyed it :D . The pins are coming soon! Thank you!
