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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.

4th Prize (Category: Set of 4)

The buttons are inspired by the patterns that are created by the iris folding technique.

This artwork is by one of twelve winners of our eighth annual button badge design competition – selected from 277 accepted entries submitted by 86 individuals, collectives and studios.

Winners: Kike Riesco, Konrad Sybilski, Paul McNeill, Anna Giarmeniti, Juste Halavin, Emma Ferraro, Vanda Nascimento, Heleen van Buul, Sarah Ray, Eva Gonçalves, Zee and Viola Wang.

The international judging panel 2012: Agathe Jacquillat / FL@33, Aliz Borsa, Andy Smith, Angharad Lewis, Angus Montgomery / Design Week, Carole Guevin, Catherine Dixon, Chris Ng / IdN, Darren Firth / Occupy, Eleftheria Alexandri, Gavin Lucas / Creative Review, Gergö Gilicze, Jacqueline Mertz, Jeff Conway, Jennie Talbot, John O’Reilly / Varoom!, Julien Decaudin, Liz Farrelly / Étapes International, Mauro Caramella, Nathan Gale / Intercity, Richard J. Kirk, Robert Urquhart, Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33, unfolded (team) and Yee Ting Kuit. Released: October 2012

Heleen van Buul is a Dutch graphic designer based in The Hague. She studied Industrial Design Engineering at Technical University of Delft and Graphic Design at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Her work is characterised by the use of patterns, typography and photography.

External link: hbontwerp.nl

Created by: Heleen van Buul

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.