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Employee Name Badge-UPDATE!

February 26, 2021 By In BR Logo Gear, Stores No Comments

Confirmed: This is an employee name badge!

I was given this employee badge by Mike Madrid in BR’s design office. It’s a laminated badge with a clip on the back of it, he didn’t recall it’s origin.

I found this article in the employee newsletter (below) about a January 1986 Manager’s Conference meeting (In the Africa Wing of San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences! How cool is that?) appears to show participants wearing this badge! I thought perhaps the badge might be exclusive to the conference…but it turns out they were just all wearing their employee badges!

Grant Street Bookstore manager Tony Donato, who has contributed many gems to my collection and this website, confirmed that the badge was indeed the standard employee badge required for everyone on the store sales floor. Names were added using a DYMO label maker.

Click here for an enlarged view.
This picture shows the badge the best…
You can just make out the badge on this employee’s shirt.

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Robyn Adams
Robyn’s fascination with Banana Republic began in 1984 when her Alaskan adventurer father began buying their clothing and giving her their catalogs. She loved the clothes, and as an artist, she was drawn to the illustrations. Robyn went on to study illustration at an art college in Banana Republic’s hometown of San Francisco, CA, and she worked for years as a background artist for animation. She is now based in Oakland, CA and works as a graphic designer and illustrator. She has been collecting and archiving at Abandoned Republic since 2011.