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Create custom badge artwork easily with CANVA

Create custom badge artwork easily with CANVA

Looking to create your own custom badge? At Patrick Australia we can certainly help by creating the artwork for you however you can also easily create in CANVA.

CANVA has templates for absolutely everything and there is a range of great free images, designs, fonts and graphics you can use as well as uploading your own logos and images. Here's a Step by Step guide to designing from scratch.

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Nurse Name Badges Customised just for you!

Nurse Name Badges

Nurse Name Badges Customised just for you!

Nurses Name Badges are the perfect way to get on a first name basis with your patients, or clients.

BUT, they don't have to always be serious. If you work with children, or just like a little quirk in your life you can make your name badges fun too.

We've channeled some Patch Adams for ideas on how you can make your nurses name badges more fun!

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Birthday Badges for your special occasion

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Birthday Badges for your special occasion

 

It's your birthday! Or you're arranging a surprise for a special 18th, 21st, 50th... Chat to Patrick's Badges about getting the birthday boy or girl some custom birthday badges made! They'll love you for it and it's a great, cost effective surprise!

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The Patrick Australia Story | Over 100 years of Button Badge Making

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The Patrick Australia Story | Over 100 years of Button Badge Making

This is the story of 5 brothers and a national business that began with the eldest brother's interest in photographic display. 

By 1913 Patrick Brothers were established as a button badge manufacturer and photo enameller in Sydney.

Once WWI began, patriotic fervour meant a ready market for the buttons and badges now being manufactured by the Patrick brothers.

This is the Patrick Badge Makers Story. A Story that spans 120-years of badge making.

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From the archives…

Button Badges Collectible Badges Vintage Vintage Badges

From the archives…

People wore them with pride to show their choices of music, politics, sports and more and most (well all at the time), were made by The Patrick family. From the Patrick button badges archives – TAA, Trans Australian Railway, Go Well Go Shell, Essendon, Tigers, Hawthorn and Marching Girls…

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