Badge Self-initiated · Social-issue badge · 2024

Groping on Japanese trains is common and rarely reported. Most prevention material is a poster on a platform wall — it addresses everyone and reaches no one in particular. I made a badge instead: something a student can wear every day. A crocodile in a school backpack bites the hand that reaches. The badge says the thing the wearer would otherwise have to say out loud — "groping is a crime", "we will not stay quiet about it". Delivered — two badge designs (die-cut circle) · matching die-cut sticker · illustration and hand lettering Why it looks like this — a badge that looks like a warning sign marks the person wearing it. A badge that looks like a charm gets worn. So: a character people want on their bag, carrying a sentence that isn't softened at all.