About Us

We're Lemeownade x Pinbuds, a small studio in Sydney. We make enamel pins, acrylic charms, and the ITA bags built to carry them. It started at a convention table, with a box of pins and no good way to show them off without scuffing them up. So we started making our own.

We learned this behind a table, not a desk

Most of what we know came from artist alley. Long weekends at cons, talking to collectors, watching which designs people reached for and which ones they left behind. That feedback still runs the studio. When a bag design has a flaw, we usually hear about it from the same people who'll buy the next one.

Designed and tested in Sydney

Every piece gets drawn, prototyped, and checked here before it ships. We care about the parts you actually feel. The weight of a pin. The click of a buckle. Whether the display window sits flat so your collection reads clearly. If we wouldn't pin it to our own bag, we don't sell it.

How the bags happened

There was nowhere good to display a growing pin collection on the go, so we built the fix and took it to the people who'd be honest with us. Our ITA bag range launched through Kickstarter and BackerKit, funded and shaped by the backers who wanted it most. That's why the range keeps growing into new sizes and carry modes.

From a Sydney table to cons overseas

These days you'll find us further from home too, showing at Tokyo Comic-Con and Osaka Comic-Con and shipping worldwide from Sydney. Wherever you carry yours, the idea stays the same. Your collection comes first.