Kill Your Television Monochrome

Kill Your Television Monochrome Cause Busy Beaver Button Museum
Category
Cause
Additional Images
Kill Your Television Monochrome Back Cause Busy Beaver Button Museum
Sub Categories
Television
Text on Button KILL YOUR TELEVISION
Image Description

Black illustration and text on a white background
Curl Text © 1989 DONNELLY/COLT BUTTONS BOX 188 HAMPDEN CT 06247 UFCW (203) 455-XX21
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Square
The Size
1 1/2 inch
Year / Decade Made
1989
1980s
The Manufacturer
Donnelly Colt
Additional Information

The saying seen here became a popular bumper sticker slogan in 1979 when nationally renowned art-furniture maker Ed Zucca printed up the first 100 stickers. According to a 2000 article in the Baltimore Sun, Zucca felt that TV was “transforming humanity into some kind of monster” so he advocated killing it before it killed you. 

After the first batch of stickers ran out, fellow woodworker G. Leslie Sweetnam took up the cause and went to progressive printers Donnelly/Colt to make more. The slogan has been printed on posters, stickers, buttons, T-shirts and coffee mugs.
Catalog ID CA0888