I recently received a gift pack in the mail, from Craig (“Cooperation“, or “rawk“) – this MINI owner is massively talented in graphics … Originally I contacted Craig to get a button for GBMINI#2; more recently Craig decided to make a new button for me to match GBMINI#3, then with the recent death of Ed, Craig did a special button and rushed the package to me (along with a button ready for next years MINIsOnTop):
Craig does not generally make individual buttons; he explains:
The MINI badges, event shirts, club shirts and other items are just a sideline that has sprung up from being a part of the MINI community for the last 4 years … a sort of hobby.
I’ve never solicited business from anyone in the MINI community, it has come to me through many different channels and I like it that way … if someone is looking for me they can find me on many, many MINI sites.
My problem with doing individual badges orders is I’m not really set up to handle the distribution side of it… I would rather work with event organizers and clubs and leave the distribution up to them. Our regular price for custom badges is between $.50 and $1.00, depending on the quantity. Because of the amount of work in individualizing the MINIs, I’ve found that $2.50 is a fair price for the MINI badges. That also leaves room for the groups to charge more and make a profit themselves.
So if you need a bunch of really nicely made custom MINI buttons, you know who to contact …
M&I / GBMINI 
Craig has done a lot of fine work for the Mini community, and is a wonderful person to deal with. I have done several T shirt orders from him, that have been perfect. (I’m still trying to steer the MOT T shirt business to him- hint hint!). It means a lot to me that Ed was wearing Craig’s button in his MOT summit picture this year, and the amount of time he takes to custom detail the Mini to the owner is only a small part of what he does.
Thanks for mentioning this, Ian. Most of his work is tremendously underappreciated. Rawk rawks!