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All Stereohype button badges available at stereohype.com are classic high quality one inch (25mm) metal back badges with so-called D-pin. Tiny stickers at the back mention the artist, release date, series number, etc. The growing collection of these mobile mini canvases – featuring over 1,700 individual designs by over 600 international graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and artists – consists of all B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) contributions, winners of Stereohype's annual button badge design competition and additional series such as the special collaborations: AFOMFS Series, MICA Series, 10x10 Series and Emoji Series. Badges are manufactured 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."

This artwork is 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

Many winning designs from our annual button badge design competitions are some of our all-time favourites and we hope you like them, too. The competition is great for customers and artists alike. Keep your eyes peeled for the call for entries if you would like to become part of Stereohype's growing one inch (25mm) button badge collection. These are posted across all Stereohype channels and by supporters around the world.

The core of the brief simply states '(...) create and submit lovely, humorous and/or witty artworks for those cute little mobile canvases (...)'. Eligible are entries by designers, artists, photographers, illustrators and by students in any of these areas – including runners-up from previous competitions. Not eligible however are contributors to our B.I.O. (By Invitation Only), MICA, AFOMFS, 10x10 and Emoji Series former competition winners who are more than welcome to become part of the judging panel. Winning button badge designs are hand-picked by our esteemed annual jury members – usually 20–30 former competition winners, button badge-loving journalists, writers, illustrators, artists and graphic designers from around the world – many of them contributors to Stereohype's button badge collection themselves.