Stormdrain

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.

Also available as an elegant luxury gift box containing all 7 button badges.

Manhole Covers — "These designs highlight and celebrate the 'beauty of the everyday’. Our selection of manhole covers are ‘found' objects which one would not normally look at or even notice. It is a way to look at our world where ‘everything is designed’."

Christian Küsters received his MFA from Yale University and his BA from the London College of Printing. He is the director of the London-based design studio CHK Design and art director of leading architectural publication AD Architectural Design.

Christian lectured on the MA Communication Design course at Central St Martin’s College as well as Camberwell College of Arts, has written for a number of leading design publications and is co-author of Restart: New Systems in Graphic Design. He conceived, co-curated and co-designed Design Now – Graphics, an exhibition on contemporary graphic design for the Design Museum, London.

External link: chkdesign.com

Created by: CHK Design / Christian Küsters

Selected international designers, illustrators and artists were invited to submit designs for this one-inch (25mm) button badge series, curated by FL@33’s Tomi Vollauschek. Stereohype sells B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Series 15 badges separately and as part of themed / artist gift boxes. We also give button badges away as free extra treats with each order. B.I.O. Series 15 includes artworks by CHK Design, Daniel Freytag, FL@33, Fred Deakin, Gavin Lucas, Jan Buchczik, Juste Halavin, Lynn Chen, Nemanja Jehlicka, Nick Bell, Nottene, Pierre-Paul Pariseau, Serial Cut and Studio Chehade. Released: November 2015. 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