Down With Pants

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.

Gavin Lucas is a writer and editor with over ten years’ experience of publishing content across multiple platforms both on and offline. Formerly a senior writer at leading communication arts journal Creative Review, he has authored books that have been published in multiple language editions on guerrilla advertising, button badges and BMX bikes. Lucas is a co-founder of illustration agency Outline Artists and is currently working on a host of self-initiated and freelance projects across a range of different media, for a gamut of different clients and publications.

Gavin wrote the book Button Badge Pin (Laurence King) that also featured Stereohype, and also kindly penned the introduction of our self-published book Stereohype 2004–2014. He commissioned us to create badges for his own badge label, Button Badge Pin, (resulting in a set of System Error badges), and his latest book – out in April 2016 – The Story of Emoji (Prestel) was designed by Stereohype founders, FL@33 (see also book-related badges: Emoji Series).

External link: gavinlucas.co.uk

Created by: Gavin Lucas

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