Q Flex

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.

Q: Flex (Bold Monday)
g + *: Didot Roman (Linotype)
R: ITC Bodoni Seventy-Two Book (ITC)
R: Mantinia (Carter & Cone)
A set of button badges featuring defining details of typefaces – such details as one might be happy enough to be seen out wearing.

Catherine Dixon is an award-winning designer, writer and teacher from London. Studio practice focuses on words and texts, with recent projects including cover designs for titles in the final series of Penguin Great Ideas books, design of the first volume in poet Ian Florance's Messengers series and with Phil Baines, the steel lettering for a set of doors in the recently restored Pozza Palace, Dubrovnik. She writes regularly for design journals including Eye magazine and Matrix, and with Baines co-authored the book, Signs: lettering in the environment. She lectures internationally and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Typography at Central Saint Martins.

External links: arts.ac.uk/... / publiclettering.org.uk

Created by: Catherine Dixon

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 10 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 10 includes artworks by Al Heighton, Catherine Dixon, Cristina Guitian, FL@33, Gregori Saavedra, Lawrence Zeegen, Nazario Graziano, Stefan G. Bucher, Strange Attractors Design, Tamar Moshkovitz, Thom Lambert and Unfolded. Released: September 2011. 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