Kill Your Television

Kill Your Television Cause Button Museum
Category
Cause
Additional Images
Kill Your Television button back Cause Button Museum
Sub Categories
Illustrations
Television
Text on Button KILL YOUR TELEVISION
Image Description

Illustration of a television with white text on the screen
Curl Text copyright 1984 Donnelly/Colt www.donnellycolt.com
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Square
The Size
1 1/2 inch x 1 1/2 inch
Year / Decade Made
1984
1980s
The Manufacturer
Donnelly Colt
Additional Information

The saying on this button 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 CA0230