What is a badge, or a small card for big people. Types of badges

A badge is a universal means of personal identification of a person. A small card with a name, surname and position or other status, which is attached to clothing in a visible place, from the first minutes of meeting helps to establish communication between people and indicate their status in an organization or at an event.

History of the Badge: From Badge of Honor to Nameplate

Translated from English, badge is an icon, a token, and the phrase badge of honor is used to mean a badge of honor, an award, a sign of distinction. It is believed that badges, in the form in which we are accustomed to seeing them, appeared in 1869, when John Wisley Highet invented celluloid. This proto-badge was attached with a chain to a metal ring that was put on a button. The well-known sheriff's star, familiar to us from Westerns, is essentially nothing more than a real badge.

During World War II, badges were used in the United States as a propaganda tool. They wrote incendiary slogans like “We will win!” and all that. Even then, the production of plastic pockets with a pin was much cheaper than the production of the same number of metal badges.

A little later, already in the 50s of the twentieth century, badges began to appear in offices: on the suits of employees and staff. One of the varieties of badges became the classic police badges of American cops, and later the badges of modern policemen in all countries of the world.

Almost one hundred and fifty years later, a badge is a common accessory for a person who works with people. Managers and waiters, security guards and reporters, conference participants and schoolchildren use badges. The invention is useful, whatever one may say. It is much more convenient and pleasant to contact to a stranger at the first meeting, immediately by name, and not “young man” or “lady-daddy!”

The badge, in addition to its identification function, also plays the role of a pass. In many large organizations, a badge simultaneously works both as a pass and as an electronic key for entering certain premises: banks and reputable organizations are very fond of such badges - where security comes first.

On the chest or on the neck?

All modern badges can be divided into two classes: those that are attached to clothing, and those that are hung around the neck.

A favorite product of organizers of all kinds of forums, conferences and other get-togethers where people come for a short time. Such badge pockets are inexpensive and the entire process of making them boils down to printing inserts and placing them in ready-made transparent plastic envelopes.

Sometimes they do it even simpler: the printed edition is laminated with a thick film, holes are punched for the lace, the lace is attached - done! Such badges are also called: in fact, they are paper laminated on both sides, but in terms of their properties, they are real hard plastic.

Badges at events have differentiation: differences in design or color, so that at first glance you can distinguish a security guard from an organizer, a guest from a representative of the press, and a speaker from an ordinary participant. Many badge manufacturers already produce empty pockets with different color stripes. Very convenient.

Some people who often take part in conferences, seminars and business forums even collect badges, and such collections sometimes reach several hundred exhibits.

Organizations also do not ignore this type of badge, using them as passes and keys in their own security and control systems.

The second type of badges are those that are attached to clothing. Basically, such badges are worn by those who, in their work, encounter clients or visitors: service personnel, front office employees, security, police.

There are many more options here, even in the materials of manufacture: badges can be made of metal, metallized plastic, wood, or can be in the form of a pocket on a pin or on a clip. Pseudo-plastic badges can also be attached to clothing: to do this, a pin or magnetic lock is glued to the reverse side.

There are certain standards in the design of plastic badges. They are made solid, with windows for first and last names, or completely transparent in order to insert a paper insert.

They love front offices. Savings banks, bank branches, cafes and restaurants order several dozen identical badges, with an original corporate design, and prepare personal data themselves. You can print strips with names on a printer in any office.

By the way, about personal design. Badges can be not only rectangular or square; current technologies make it possible to make them, even in the shape of a fish or an elephant. Laser cutter it’s all the same what to cut and what to engrave.

From what, from what...?

Most often used in the manufacture of badges classic materials: metal, several types of plastic and paper.

Roads are more likely not even badges, but breast plates, tokens or badges. State traffic inspector badge with personal number, for example, which he must show you when he stops your car - a classic metal badge. In addition to the police and other law enforcement agencies with badges, metal badges can be found on staff expensive restaurants and five star hotels. In such establishments, expensive show-offs are the first priority.

The most common type. Two-layer metallized plastic - material for badges with engraving. For gold, silver, noble bronze or simply different colors: The number of options is very huge. There are badges with engraving and a transparent pocket: the company logo is engraved, for example, and your full name in the window.

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Any self-respecting company, be it a bank or a cafe, cares about its clients. And one of the points of good service is providing visitors with information about employees. That is, when you approach a salesperson in a store, you already know his name (sometimes his last name) and position. This is possible thanks to a special badge.

What is a badge?

This word, unusual for us, is borrowed from English language to designate a card made of plastic or paper, usually small in size, providing clients and visitors to the establishment brief information about employees.

There are two correct forms of pronunciation of the original word badge, based on the classical translation:

English - badge;
American - badge.

But many english words have the ability to change slightly when translated into Russian. Badge was no exception. It has acquired more soft form- badge. But still, the diminutive wording is more common - badge.

By the way, in explanatory dictionaries the badge is interpreted as one of the elements of the uniform.

Purpose

Badges are common in companies and institutions providing services (for example, cafes and restaurants, pharmacies, shops, beauty salons, banks, and so on), as well as at various public events (for example, auctions, exhibitions, seminars, meetings).

As for the information placed on the sign, it can be anything. Most often, the standard one provides for the location of attributes such as first and last name, as well as the employee’s position.

If an individual design is created for the badge, then you can also find the name and logo of the company.

Some badges can be used not only as a small information plate, but also serve as a pass. This can often be found in large corporations, laboratories and some medical institutions. Then the badges are made to order and additionally contain a photograph of the employee, and sometimes data for automatic access (barcode or embedded chip).

Information can be located both vertically and horizontally.

Species

The badge can be made to order from special companies (advertising agencies and printing companies), purchased in stationery stores, or made by hand.

Bespoke badges can be made in different designs and from materials such as:

plastic;
metal;
tree;
magnet and so on.

Ready-made badges are most often made in one design solution made of a plastic cover and a replaceable paper card inserted into it (can be of different densities).

You can make a badge yourself using cardboard and some kind of fastening (for example, a pin). But the easiest way is to use stickers, on which information is written with a marker. They simply stick to clothing and then come off just as easily without leaving any marks.

Methods of attaching to clothing:

clip;
magnet;
pin;
lace and the like.

Badge size standard (mm) and non-standard

The parameters of a typical badge are similar to the size of a Euro-format business card. Most common standard size badges in all countries - 86 x 54 mm. As a rule, this is enough to place the most necessary information. But there are cases that such a standard badge size does not allow to accommodate a company logo or other distinctive signs. Then you can make custom signs using your own or other suggested parameters:

70x50 mm;
100x70 mm;
100x100mm.

If you are unsure whether a standard badge size will suit you, your best bet is to contact advertising agencies or printing house. They will be able to tell you what size sign will be better, based on the created layout.

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