As part of their end-of-decade coverage, Canada's National Post newspaper identified Spacing's fantastic "subway buttons" as one of the top ten examples of how Torontonians rediscovered their city over the last ten years. These stylish little pieces of metal make place into a fashion statement, and inspire civic re-engagement in the process:
The urban activists behind Spacing magazine created a batch of one-inch buttons featuring the tile designs and colour schemes of TTC subway platforms. We at the Post deemed them to be "the civic pride fashion statement of the year," and Mayor David Miller reportedly handed them out gleefully as if they were oversized Smarties. The magazine sold about 35,000 buttons in 2005. "People for the most part are proud of where they live and want to show that off," says Matt Blackett, publisher of Spacing magazine.
(Still love these. Stroke of genius to come up with them.)
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