Mask

All Stereohype button badges available at stereohype.com are classic, high-quality, one-inch (25 mm) metal-back badges with a so-called D-pin fastening. Small stickers on the reverse provide details such as the artist’s name, release date and series number. This growing collection of mobile mini canvases includes more than 1,700 individual designs by over 650 graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and artists from around the world. It brings together all contributions to the FL@33 / Tomi Vollauschek-curated B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) series, winners of Stereohype’s international open-call button badge design competition, and additional collections including the special collaborations, AFOMFS Series, MICA Series, 10×10 Series and Emoji Series. All badges are manufactured in Europe.

Heart: Design for an earth flag on the theme of solidarity. Skull: Design, technology and the global brain. Mask: Two ways of educating; One aspect regards the mind as a vessel into which is to be poured all the knowledge it will hold, the other regards the mind more as a fire to be set alight and blown by the winds of universal wisdom.

Educated at Central School of Art and Design, London 1960. Director of design consultancy service of Knoll International 1961. Partner Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes 1999. Co-founder Pentagram 1972. Founder Mervyn Kurlansky Design 1994. Clients: Multinational corporations, cultural establishments and educational institutions worldwide. Awards: bronze medal Brno Biennale, silver awards Designers and Art Directors Association and New York Art Directors Club, gold award Package Designers Council and Japan’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Gustav Klimt prize 1995, Danish IG design prize 1996. In 2006 he was inducted into the South African Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collection of MoMA New York and has been featured in publications and exhibitions worldwide. He conceived and designed the books, Watching My Name Go By, the first documentation of New York graffiti, and Masters of the 20th Century celebrating the work of the 107 speakers of Icograda London Design Seminars 1974-1999, co-author of four books about Pentagram. He is active in design education, lectures extensively and serves on design juries internationally. He is Past President of Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations), a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers, the International Society of Typographic Designers and the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He is a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) and the Danish Design Association.

External link: kurlanskydesign.dk

Created by: Mervyn Kurlansky

Selected international designers, illustrators and artists were invited to submit designs for this one-inch (25mm) button badge series, curated by FL@33’s Tomi Vollauschek. Stereohype sells B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Series 9 badges separately and as part of themed / artist gift boxes. We also give button badges away as free extra treats with each order. B.I.O. Series 9 includes artworks by Alexander Egger, Astrid Stavro, FL@33, Impactolaser, Jacques Le Bailly, Jeff Knowles, Kapitza, Masashi Kawamura, Mervyn Kurlansky, Pleaseletmedesign (PLMD), Slanted and Vladimir Koncar. Released: November 2010. Please feel free to add a complimentary button badge of your choice to your next £/€ 5+ order using this add-on checkout voucher code: FreeBadgeOfChoice