Custom Lapel Pins

Any man that wears a suit or jacket prefers to look classic and understated, custom lapel pins can be as simple or elaborate as you like, adding just the right splash of interest on your lapel. Of course you can find a varied selection of ready-made lapel pins for decorative purposes, but if you want a specific design for personal or professional use, custom lapel pins are the way to go.

Custom lapel pins are the perfect way to advertise you or your business at trade shows and conventions. A nicely designed pin can help company branding and can be a vital part of any advertising campaign. They are unique promotional giveaways and employee or customer recognition gifts. They can be given to volunteers, employees, or board members for recognition and reward. Many groups and associations create custom lapel pins to give to new members to recognize association or organization membership, such as a baseball league. You can also use lapel pins for fund raising, trading, or collecting.

When creating a custom lapel pin, you have many choices. Most manufacturers offer cloisonné pins, soft enamel, classic new enamel, die-struck, photo-etched, die-cast 3-dimensional lapel pins, and coin pins. Cloisonné lapel pins are cut from a copper-bronze sheet your design imprinted into the metal. Any colors in your pin are hand-filled with a powdered glass-like mixture which is fired to create a jewelry-like finish. Classic New Enamel pins are painted with a resin paste to achieve an authentic, hard, glass-like finish. Die-struck lapel pins are cut from a sheet of copper or iron. Your design is imprinted into the metal and the pin is plated with gold, silver, or black nickel.

Photo-etched lapel pins are created by transferring an image of your design from a photographic negative onto the surface of the metal. Your design is then etched into the brass using an acid-reaction process and the design is then filled with the enamel colors of your choice and fired. Die-cast custom lapel pins create 3-dimensional designs which are plated in silver, gold, or an antique finish.

You can send a manufacturer your full design or tell them what you want and they will send you a full color design to review, based on your description. The finished product is a proper piece of jewelry readily accepted by others and often kept and worn for long periods of time, whether fancy or promotional. Whether you want a simple pewter, silver, or gold lapel pin for business or evening wear, or a professional recognition pin to announce your pride in membership, a custom lapel pin is sure to catch attention as it sits pinned to your lapel.