Designs can be made with paper, stamps, photos, or any other flat design. Dr. Don's, while claiming to be the cheapest, sells all of these materials, although the prices are comparatively high. The catch is they only sell button makers for that size. All kits come with instructions. Du Pont and extinct companies such as Yum Yum Bread, Santelmann said, used buttons for advertisements.
Buttons can be a way to promote or retain powerful images.
The peace symbol, for example, has been around as early as the 1890s, the Berkeley Pop Culture Project proclaims. Political buttons are more widely spread and profitable for collectors. Shepherd believes McGovern's loss could have been predicted from one of his 1972 buttons. It was a labor button displaying three gears touching each other, making the apparatus unmovable in real life. Hosner supports this claim with the fact that button sales for the 1992 Clinton campaign were four to five times higher than for his opponent.