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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.

Lee Basford is a Tokyo-based graphic designer, artist and photographer working in and around the overlap of art and design, blending these disciplines to create work for arts, film, video games, fashion and music companies. Over the years, he has written, illustrated, and photographed for the magazines Paper-Sky, Dazed and Confused, Tokion, and Level and designed typefaces for T26 and Fountain fonts. Since 2000 he has exhibited both as a solo artist and collectively in England, Japan, USA, Germany, China and Ireland. His work has featured in numerous books and design journals, including; Creative Review, +81, 200% Cotton, The 3D Type Book, Cutting Edge Illustration, Concrete 2 Canvas and Graphic Britain.

External link: humankind.jp

Created by: Lee Basford / Humankind

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 12 badges separately and gives them away as a free surprise badge with selected Stereohype T-shirts. B.I.O. Series 12 includes artworks by Agathe Jacquillat / FL@33, Daniel Cantrell / The Horror, Dominic Le-Hair, Evelin Kasikov, Jack Curry, Jarrik Muller, Karin von Ompteda, Lee Basford, Marion Deuchars, Nathan Gale / Intercity, Simone Lia, Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33 and Von Dauer. Und Huck. Released: October 2012