The 19th Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition is now open—and B.I.O. 23 is being curated.
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⬤ Dear Stereohype supporters, contributors, collaborators, past and present design competition participants, stockists, customers, jury members, graphic art and button badge lovers
Well, hello there!
It has been a while. The last Stereohype newsletter went out in 2022, and the intervening years were, let’s say, rather eventful. Moves, boxes, crossed borders, practical reshuffling and a temporary period of online quietness. There were plenty of questions, a fair amount of admin, and rather more cardboard boxes than anyone should reasonably have to deal with.
Things have gradually settled, and Stereohype is very much alive and kicking again.
For anyone who may be new to Stereohype, it is the graphic art label, online boutique and international creative community founded in London in 2004 and directed by yours truly, Tomi Vollauschek. It is the sister-company of FL@33, the multi-disciplinary design studio I co-founded and lead as Creative Director.
More importantly, there are new badge adventures ahead.
All the best,
Tomi 8) ⬤⬤⬤
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CALL FOR ENTRIES #STBBDC2026
⬤ Stereohype runs two independent badge-design initiatives.
The call for entries for the 19th international Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition is now open.
It is Stereohype’s public open call, running alongside the B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Button Badge Series, now in its 23rd edition and curated by yours truly.
If you are 18+ and into design, illustration, typography, photography or visual experimentation, submit a maximum of four original badge artworks in total. Enter them as individual designs, a set of four, or a combination of both. No entry fee, of course.
Create something lovely, humorous, witty, strange, beautiful or otherwise irresistible for those cute little mobile canvases.
Deadline: 9 September 2026, 11.59pm / 23:59, in your own time zone.
The all-important Artwork Guide PDF is waiting on the competition page, together with Photoshop templates, prizes, technical specifications and submission details.
Please share / Happy badge designing!
READ THE BRIEF / ENTER →
JURY ASSEMBLE!
⬤ One of my favourite things about Stereohype is how the community keeps growing in circles. Former competition winners, B.I.O. contributors, badge-loving writers, editors, illustrators, artists and graphic designers come together to help choose the next generation of Stereohype winners.
The first confirmed 2026 judges are: Antonia Henschel, Camille Whitcher, Rebecca Fulleylove / Creative Review, DTM_INC, Geneviève Gauckler, Christine Moosmann / Grafikmagazin, Holly T Burrows, Jono Sandilands, Julien Rivoire, Linzie Hunter, Paul McNeill, Tatiana Furlan and yours truly, Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33.
More names to follow soon.
MEET THE JUDGING PANEL →
B.I.O. 23: QUIETLY UNDERWAY #STBIO23
⬤ Personal invitations for the 23rd B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Button Badge Series are now out. The early response has been wonderfully positive, and I am currently waiting for designs to arrive from all corners of the world.
The one and only Steven R. Gilmore is already on board, with badges and Button Badge Motif Prints. I will contribute to the series, too, as always.
Selected badge motifs may also join #STBBMP, Stereohype’s Button Badge Motif Print Series. The original one-inch artwork is enlarged, resolution allowing, to a circular seven-inch (178mm) motif with a subtle 45rpm single feel, on an 8 × 10in (203 × 254mm) Fine Art Giclée Print. Each print is produced with super-vibrant archival 12-ink technology on beautifully textured 310gsm Hahnemühle German Etching
paper and finished with an embossed Stereohype quality seal.
EXPLORE B.I.O. + BUTTON BADGE MOTIF PRINTS →
⬤ Marché Graphique, Lyon
Our first French Stereohype / FL@33 market outing at Lyon’s Marché Graphique, part of the Room Service Graphic Design Festival, was a fantastic weekend of badges, prints, friendly visitors, great fellow exhibitors and next-gen assistants.
⬤ Illustrators’ Fair, London
The Stereohype / FL@33 stand returned to London’s Illustrators’ Winter Fair 2025 at King’s Cross, one of our favourite regular chances to share button badges, gift boxes and prints with lovely visitors in real life.
⬤ London, hopefully
We hope to return to London's Illustrators’ Winter Fair 2026 this December. We’ll keep you posted with the latest news.
⬤ Button Badge of the Day is back!
Visit the Stereohype homepage each day for a randomly selected badge at half price, until midnight. #STBBOTD
⬤ Summer break + 26% off
Orders placed after 7 July will be processed and dispatched from 26 August. Until then, use code Summer26 at checkout for 26% off every order – on top of the FreeBadgeOfChoice offer for £/€5+ orders. Only a few days remain.
⬤ New checkout options
You asked. We obliged. Apple Pay and Google Pay are now available via Stripe, alongside PayPal and bank transfer – and we’ve updated the shop for EU-based shipping and currency options.
STOCK STEREOHYPE IN YOUR SHOP
⬤ A labour of love since 2004, Stereohype brings together 1,775+ button-badge designs by 650+ artists, designers and illustrators worldwide, plus 500+ Button Badge Motif Prints. We supply museum shops and concept stores, with UK wholesale delivery from within the UK and all other orders shipped from France.
Interested? Set up a wholesale account in three simple steps – or simply email us for prices, ordering and custom options.
See examples of badge selections displayed in counter display units at the till, including one at London’s Saatchi Gallery.
WHOLESALE INFORMATION / REGISTER →
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