Lazy Dog

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.

This artwork is also available as Button Badge Motif Print.

4th Prize (Category: Single Badge)

Aleksandra Szwajda loves dogs. So much so that she started creating letterforms with dogs. This is the letter E.

This artwork is by one of twelve winners of our 16th annual Button Badge Design Competition – selected from 601 accepted entries submitted by 181 individuals, studios and collectives.

Winners: Anke Weckmann, Bori Vajda, Alejandro Llamas, Savely Beloshapskiy, Kristina Kerstner, Maxim Morozov, Aleksandra Szwajda, Irina Nurenberg, Steve Sadler, Irina Chaitsyna, Mascha Keersmaekers and Susie Ghahremani.

Judging Panel: Agathe Jacquillat / FL@33 and Stereohype, Aimee Morris, Anis Tabaraee, Ben Herskowitz, Camille Whitcher, Donya Maghsoudlou, Gavin Lucas, Holly T Burrows, John Dowling, Jonny Leigh, Jono Sandilands, Joseph Dunkerley, Josie Kennedy, Laura Parker, Linzie Hunter, Maria Popescu, Marija Jurcikaite, Michel Martins, Neil Bennett, Nick Spence, Piotr Depta-Kleśta, Richard Horne, Roger Fawcett-Tang, Team Novum and Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33 and Stereohype.
Released: November 2020

Aleksandra Szwajda is a Polish graphic designer and illustrator. In her life, she combined her passion and profession by creating illustrated books for children. Her biggest dream is to found her own publishing house and make more beautiful things in this area. Aleksandra loves dogs, music, winters, and Scandinavian culture.

External links: behance.net/olaszwajda | @ola.szwajda_illustration

Created by: Aleksandra Szwajda

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.

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