Gift Box: 3 button badges (Holiday Snaps)

This elegant matchbox-style gift box contains three designs from Stereohype's growing button badge collection – now available for the first time in this superb packaging solution. A rose-gold foil-blocked Stereohype mascot squirrel was hand-printed in the UK at the top of the gift box (outside dimensions: 75 x 72 x 16mm). Inside the beautiful matt black cardboard gift box is a black flock pad and badges are directly pinned into it. All Stereohype button badges available at stereohype.com are classic high quality one inch (25mm) metal back badges with so-called D-pin (although it looks more like an 'e'). Tiny stickers at the back of each button badge mention the artist, release date, series number, etc. Badges are manufactured with love and care in the United Kingdom.

2nd Prize (Category: Set of 3)

"There are three buttons, they are made in order to travel the world. They come from a 2nd hand market in Bruxelles I visited this year. I got a big family photo album with holiday snapshots of a grandma', from the 50s to 80s. I want to give new life to the moments captured in these photographs by applying them to button badges."

These artworks are by one of ten winners of our third annual button badge design competition – selected from 593 entries submitted by 232 individuals, collectives and studios.

Winners: Agnese Bicocchi, Wanda Kamarga, Ben Holroyd, Guillaume Neim / Lomatoufaire, Ildikó Hajdú, Cat Finnie, Hervé Bienaimé / Les 84, Costa del Sol Lewitt, Matthew Kenyon and Studio Gpop.

The international judging panel 2006: Andy Steward / Datacubes, C'est Moi Ce Soir, Emilie Baltz, Holly Wales / Eat Japanese Food, Jonathan Morris, Kate Forrester, Lars Kruse / Grafische Netze, Mauro Caramella / Designaside, What What, Agathe Jacquillat / FL@33, Andrew Townsend / Un.titled, Carole Guevin / Netdiver, Chris Ng / IdN, Daniel Koh / Unit Studio, Darren Firth / WIWP, Elisabeth Lecourt, Gavin Lucas / CR, Helen Walters, Hellohikimori, Inksurge, Kerry Roper, Luke Best / Peepshow, Nathan Gale / CR, Patrick Duffy, Peskimo, Richard J. Kirk, Rieme Gleijm, Roderick Mills, Supermundane and Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33. Released: December 2006

Guillaume Neim aka Lomatoufaire is a young graphic designer, living in the Parisian suburbs, France. He is working since 2003, to create visual goods, printed or virtual. He enjoys designing a button badge, a balloon, a simple white craft box, stickers, books, visual identities and more – too vast to be numbered, and to be imagined… His passion is to travel to cities like London, Amsterdam, Bruxelles or Barcelona, to collect pieces of signs, walls, textures, urban signage and wall paintings and to transform them into graphic objects such as button badges, books, projections or postcards.

Created by: Guillaume Neim