Basketball

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.

4th Prize (Category: Set of 3)

The button badge set is called Play/Balls. "The three badges are of a tennis ball, a basketball and a volleyball. It's inspired by 70's minimalism and conceptualism, basically taking the lines and round shape of different types of balls. The lack of colour gives them a mutual look and abstraction, almost to the point of the banal, like a paint-by-numbers. Boiled down to the essentials, all we see is pattern and lines, where all origin seems to disappear."

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

The artist group Costa del Sol Lewitt is a multi-disciplinary art and design duo from Denmark, consisting of Pater Neo (aka Pater N.) and Line Svensson (aka Line S.). Their background is in Film, Advertising and Graphic Design.

Created by: Costa del Sol Lewitt

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.