10x10 Series, Badge: Balloons, Detail

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.

FL@33 is a multi-disciplinary design studio for visual communication, established in London in 2001 and led by co-founding Creative Director Tomi Vollauschek. The studio works with businesses, cultural and educational institutions, and individuals on visual identities, publications and communication across print and digital media.

Its award-winning, internationally published work spans typography, image-making and editorial design, from logos and identity systems to books, packaging, websites, moving image and exhibition graphics. FL@33 brings together collaborators according to each project’s needs, with commissioned work alongside self-initiated projects and publications.

Alongside leading FL@33 and Stereohype, Tomi teaches visual communication at BA and Master level, lectures internationally and runs workshops, including ‘Personal Project and the Power of Three’. His practice also encompasses writing, publishing, curation and developing graphic-art products.

A FL@33 monograph (Design & Designer 033 – FL@33) was published in 2005 by Pyramyd. FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek also authored and designed three books that were published under the FL@33 imprint worldwide by Laurence King and partner publishers: Postcard (2008), Made & Sold: Toys, T-Shirts, Prints, Zines and Other Stuff (2009) and The 3D Type Book (2011). In the same year FL@33’s popular online sound collection project bzzzpeek.com was exhibited in New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). FL@33’s co-founders also self-published the widely acclaimed Trans-form magazine (2001) and the tenth anniversary book and exhibition catalogue Stereohype 2004–2014, which Tomi conceived, compiled and designed.

External link: flat33.com

Created by: FL@33 / Agathe Jacquillat

Curated by FL@33’s Tomi Vollauschek these 10 button badges are the beautiful contributions by 10 designers, studios, artists and illustrators who were specially commissioned by Stereohype to form part of the 10x10 Poster/Badge Anniversary Series. The series consists of 10 A1-sized posters that each come with its corresponding one inch/25mm button badge – all inspired by the number 10 and/or 1,000 and/or 10x10. Button badges either mirror or compliment the according poster design. This series was created for the 10th anniversary exhibition Stereohype 2004–2014. The 10x10 contributors are: Alan Kitching, Daniel Eatock, Deanne Cheuk, Geneviève Gauckler, Ian Wright, Michael C. Place / Build, Richard J. Kirk / Manikato, TwoPoints, Vaughan Oliver / v23 and Stereohype-founders FL@33. Released: September 2014. 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