Feeling Blue

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.

Special Stereohype Prize (Category: Single Badge)

Feeling blue: pencil drawings turned into screen prints turned into button badges.

This artwork is by one of twelve winners of our ninth annual button badge design competition – selected from 261 accepted entries submitted by 87 individuals, collectives and studios.

Winners: Shiva Karamzadeh, Sara Cunha, Paul Pateman / Pâté, Keith Hancox, Marina Mijatovic, Faye Savage, Kienan Dostal / GiantEvilPizza, David Petzold / Lobsterboy, Jenny Haytch, Lydia Blanco / Cocolima, Cynthia Bataille and Jono Sandilands.

The international judging panel 2013: Agathe Jacquillat / FL@33, Angharad Lewis / Grafik.net & Upsideup, Angus Montgomery / Design Week, Anna Giarmeniti, Darren Firth / Occupy, Eva Gonçalves, Gavin Lucas, Heleen van Buul, Holly T Burrows, Jeff Conway, Julia Kahl / Slanted, Kike Riesco, Konrad Sybilski, Liz Farrelly / Étapes International, Matthew Kenyon, Nathan Gale / Intercity, Neil Bennett / Digital Arts, Nick Spence, Paul McNeill, Priscilla Chan / IdN, Rachael Steven / Creative Review, Richard J. Kirk, Robert Urquhart, Sarah Boris, Sarah Ray, Thom Lambert, Toby Neilan, Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33, unfolded (team) and Viola Wang. Released: November 2013

Cynthia Bataille is a French graphic designer based in the UK. After travelling the world she decided to move back closer to home to eat crumpets and pursue her first love: illustration. She now spends hours drawing obsessively with her mechanical pencils and messing around with squeegees in her small screen printing studio (*room*). She also loves to go shopping for new brushes, eats cheese for breakfast and compulsively buys art books at night while wishing days were longer.

External link: aroomfulofcandy.com

Created by: Cynthia Bataille / My Kingdom For A Mouse

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.

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