Grenade

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.

For his button badge set he took inspiration from the everyday and juxtaposed images of infants, insects, warfare and design classics to create simple, wearable and iconic graphic statements...

Professor Lawrence Zeegen is Dean of the School of Design at Ravensbourne University London, where he leads academic departments and research in Advertising, Architecture and Interiors, Communication Design, Fashion Design and Product Design. Lawrence has taught and lectured internationally in over 20 countries. His design and illustration clients include major international newspapers, magazines, book publishers, design studios and advertising agencies. Lawrence is the author of nine published books on graphic arts, including Fifty Years of Illustration and Ladybird by Design and is contributor to numerous publications.

Lawrence is a member of the UK’s Design Council Sounding Board, trustee of both the De Le Warr Pavilion and Creative Conscious and a former trustee of D&AD. Lawrence has twice been appointed to the Executive Board of ico-D, the International Council of Design.

External link: zeegen.com

Created by: Lawrence Zeegen

Selected international designers, illustrators and artists were invited to submit designs for this one inch (25mm) button badge series. Stereohype sells B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Series 10 badges separately and gives them away as a free surprise badge with selected Stereohype T-shirts. 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