Gift Box: 4 button badges (Future Planets)

This elegant matchbox-style gift box contains four 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.

5th Prize (Category: Set of 4)

It’s a tough, self-discovery intergalactic mission. Future planets is therefore a manifesto. Not for kitsch, but for future uncharted worlds of creative freedom. Spiced with some bright colours.

These artworks are by one of twelve winners of our eighth annual button badge design competition – selected from 277 accepted entries submitted by 86 individuals, collectives and studios.

Winners: Kike Riesco, Konrad Sybilski, Paul McNeill, Anna Giarmeniti, Juste Halavin, Emma Ferraro, Vanda Nascimento, Heleen van Buul, Sarah Ray, Eva Gonçalves, Zee and Viola Wang.

The international judging panel 2012: Agathe Jacquillat / FL@33, Aliz Borsa, Andy Smith, Angharad Lewis, Angus Montgomery / Design Week, Carole Guevin, Catherine Dixon, Chris Ng / IdN, Darren Firth / Occupy, Eleftheria Alexandri, Gavin Lucas / Creative Review, Gergö Gilicze, Jacqueline Mertz, Jeff Conway, Jennie Talbot, John O’Reilly / Varoom!, Julien Decaudin, Liz Farrelly / Étapes International, Mauro Caramella, Nathan Gale / Intercity, Richard J. Kirk, Robert Urquhart, Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33, unfolded (team) and Yee Ting Kuit. Released: October 2012

Eva Gonçalves is a Portuguese designer living in Berlin and working somewhere inbetween the approx. 3000km that separate Berlin from Lisbon. She was born and raised in the beautiful Portuguese coast, studied Communication Design at Lisbon’s Fine Art School, lived for a few months in England, under the Erasmus Exchange program and moved to Berlin where she collaborated with Berlin-based magazine mono.kultur, finishing an MA in Communication Design and New Media and working as a freelance designer. She is also running a 'design, art and everything else' blog called We Celebrate. Eva joined two other designer friends to start their own studio, a space to freely experiment and follow her own instincts.

External links: unfinishedinventory.com / we-celebrate.com

Created by: Eva Gonçalves / Unfinished Inventory