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Lovecraftian Horror Limited Edition Pins | Pintopia

Created by Rick Kitagawa

Harness the power of dark eldritch horrors through amazing enamel pins! These 1.65" soft enamel pins allow soft, fleshy mortals like yourself to show your allegiance to Hastur, Shub-Niggurath, and the protoplasmic Shoggoths.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

PINS ARE OUT!
12 months ago – Sun, May 14, 2023 at 03:55:54 PM

Hi everyone!

If you're one of the 102 awesome humans who filled out your pledge survey, your pins are now on their way to you!

Numbering, mounting, labelling, packing, and lugging all those pins was a bit of an undertaking that I had underestimated (I've never had this many limited edition pins to sort before!), but I'm super stoked to be sending these out to all of you.

Thanks again the patience and support, and hope you enjoy the pins!

I'll likely be taking a bit of a break from pin crowdfunding for a while (I've got a soft vinyl toy in the works coming up next), but you can always keep track of what I'm up to on instagram or my Patreon or by subscribing to the shop newsletter (I rarely send stuff out tbh) over at the store https://evilpin.club/shop. 

Thanks so much! 

PS - If you haven't filled out the survey, I'll be sending out a few FINAL announcements. Consider this your 3 month warning before I consider your pledges as donations to the furtherment of horror art. 

Cheers,
Rick

Pins are in! Locking addresses at the end of the week!
about 1 year ago – Tue, May 02, 2023 at 12:16:26 PM

Howdy folks!

The pins are in and they look good!



Pretty stoked on these, but after working on assembling them (opening bags, removing backings, numbering cards, laying out the pins in numerical order, attaching them to the backing card) I'm realizing that it'll likely take me a few days to get these all set-up.

If you wanna watch a quick overview (I've even got tools to help!) of the process, you can check out my IG reel here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrwG4vGq-5Q/

This is the downside to doing limited edition, numbered pins, but I think it makes the project all the cooler. 

Anyway, this means I'll be locking addresses later this week and hopefully will have the first batches to ship out end of this week, early next! So if you've got any address updates, now is the time to make them!

Thanks for your patience and here we gooooo!

PS - Update to make the exceptionally reflecting near-black Shub-Niggurath clearer - I can get detail with some reflection, or have the linework disappear to show true color. 

Pins are almost here!
about 1 year ago – Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 03:16:29 PM

Hi y'all,

Just wanted to give you an update that the backing cards have been printed, shipping material is ready to go, and I'm just waiting on the pins themselves, which I just got word are on their way now. 

I'm waiting on locking addresses because I want to first make sure that the pins came out as expected, and since we're doing limited edition pins I need to do a QA check to make sure they're all solid, so please be patient a wee bit longer, and I hope to get these out to you ASAP. 

So what's next? 

After I have the pins in hand and have made sure they're up to spec, I'll give y'all a few days to lock/update your addresses while I go into factory mode to get your pins packed and ready to go out to you all, and then I'll be getting them all out in the mail. 

Thanks again and looking forward to getting these out into the world! Ia Ia!

-Rick

Important Shoggoth Design Update - Please read!
about 1 year ago – Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 02:55:56 PM

Hi everyone!

So I've got some important production news regarding the shoggoth pin.

I've been working with my factory to try and get the pantone colors right, but I made the biggest rookie mistake of designing the pin on my computer without consulting a pantone color guide first. For those not in the design world. Pantone colors are a specific brand's guide to reproducing color - computer monitors all represent color differently, so if you've ever printed a photo off your computer and are surprised the color shifts - well, that's what's happening.

Anyway, I really liked all the subtle greenish greys my monitor was giving me, but upon consulting my Pantone colors, I couldn't get quite the right colors to accurate reproduce the greenish greys, so I ended up skewing everything a bit more greenish.

I personally think that this makes the pin design stronger overall (like the protoplasmic slime is being influenced by the light from the glowing orb-eyes), but I also acknowledge that this isn't what you might have pledged for, so I wanted to let you all know ASAP.

I'm going to move forward with this design, but if the more greenish hue really kills the pin for you, please let me know within a week (just reply here and I'll reach out) to figure out how to make it right for y'all.

I appreciate your understanding, and I hope you all are as excited as I am for the updated design!

Cheers,
Rick

Charging cards Tuesday am PT!
about 1 year ago – Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 12:15:23 AM

Hi everyone! Hope you're having an awesome weekend.

I just wanted to update you that I've got the greenlight from BackerKit and Stripe to start processing cards, so I'll be charging cards on Tuesday AM, Pacific Time. 

Factory stuff seems like it should be good to go, so it's looking like pretty smooth sailing from here. Will update you as soon as I get an estimated date from them of when I'll get pins, and then it should be just a matter of packing and shipping them out to you all! 

Thanks again for all the support!

Cheers, Rick