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I’ve always liked badges, and I especially like the enamel pin variety even though I tend to buy them then not wear them very much for fear of losing them. This handsome item arrived a couple of days ago from an eBay seller<\/a>, and is the first Can-related pin I’ve come across. After Kraftwerk, Can were the most popular of the German groups in the Britain of the 1970s but I’ve never seen any Can badges or anything else related to them from that decade aside from the records. The resurgence of interest in German music\u2014Krautrock, if you must\u2014has prompted the badge manufacturers who populate eBay, Etsy and elsewhere to create a number of items based on the record covers of Can, Neu!, Harmonia and others. The quality isn’t always very good but then badges in the 1970s were often crude designs as well. You can’t go wrong with a simple logo but shrinking an album cover down to 25 mm isn’t always a good idea. A couple of years ago I bought three Can badges from another eBay seller; two of them, with logo designs taken from sleeves, were okay but the third, based on the Future Days<\/em> album cover was poorly printed. This pin equivalent is much better, as well as being one of the few Can sleeves you could transform in this manner. The raised gold lines are a good match for the Art Nouveau-styled design by\u00a0Ingo Trauer and\u00a0Richard J. Rudow which was embossed on the original German pressing<\/a>. The group may have been popular in Britain but UA gave British Can-heads a flat sleeve.<\/p>\n The same eBay seller also makes these Kraftwerk pins which I bought a while ago. I’d still prefer to have the traffic cone without the band name\u2014something that only aficionados would recognise\u2014but it was good to find a pin based on the early years of the group’s career, the period which Kraftwerk themselves have long disowned. The seller recently added a new design with the same traffic cone in green as it is on the Kraftwerk 2<\/em> album cover, but the green cone was only a variation on a theme, the orange leitkegel<\/em><\/a> is the ubiquitous and definitive icon of the pre-Autobahn<\/em> years.<\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } I’ve always liked badges, and I especially like the enamel pin variety even though I tend to buy them then not wear them very much for fear of losing them. This handsome item arrived a couple of days ago from an eBay seller, and is the first Can-related pin I’ve come across. After Kraftwerk, Can … Continue reading “A Can pin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: A Can pin","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,4,3],"tags":[2271,8006,122,8007],"class_list":["post-20379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-nouveau","category-design","category-music","tag-can-group","tag-ingo-trauer","tag-kraftwerk","tag-richard-j-rudow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5iH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"pin2.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pin2.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 Holger\u2019s Radio Pictures<\/a>
\n\u2022 Jaki Liebezeit times ten<\/a>
\n\u2022 Can esoterics<\/a>
\n\u2022 Can soundtracks<\/a>
\n\u2022 The kosmische design of Peter Geitner<\/a>
\n\u2022 Reworking Kraftwerk (again)<\/a>
\n\u2022 Leitkegel<\/a>
\n\u2022 German gear<\/a>
\n\u2022 Autobahnen<\/a>
\n\u2022 Ralf and Florian<\/a>
\n\u2022 Can\u2019s Lost Tapes<\/a>
\n\u2022 Reworking Kraftwerk<\/a>
\n\u2022 Autobahn animated<\/a>
\n\u2022 Sleeve craft<\/a>
\n\u2022 Who designed Vertigo #6360 620?<\/a>
\n\u2022 Old music and old technology<\/a>
\n\u2022 A cluster of Cluster<\/a>
\n\u2022 Aerodynamik by Kraftwerk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"