Module 12: Dark Target

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.

Modular components to create your own things – specifically letterforms.

'For us, the key to our designs is that they are quite simple individually but that they work by means of the differences and similarities between them — they are a coordinated set.' — Paul McNeil

Founded in 2009 by Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir, MuirMcNeil’s activities are focused on exploring systematic and algorithmic methods in graphic design, type design and moving image.

Paul McNeil is a typographic designer, educator and author. He was Course Leader of the MA Contemporary Typographic Media at the London College of Communication from 2010–15. Seven years in the making, The Visual History of Type, McNeil’s exhaustive survey of type design from 1450–2015, was published in 2017. Member ISTD. Fellow HEA.

Hamish Muir was co-founder of the London-based graphic design studio 8vo (1985–2001), and co-editor of Octavo, journal of typography (1986–92). He was a part-time tutor at the London College of Communication from 2001–2019 and has delivered workshops and short courses at Fortuny Graphic Venice, Basel School of Design, Porto Design Summer School, ESAD Porto, National College of Art and Design Dublin, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Institutt for design Universitetet i Bergen.

External links: muirmcneil.com / @muirmcneil

Created by: MuirMcNeil / Hamish Muir / Paul McNeil /

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 21 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 21 includes artworks by Adam Pointer, Andy Altmann, Ben Herskowitz, cut shape make / Gary Prendergast, Dominic Davies, Donya Maghsoudlou, Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33, Maxim Morozov, MuirMcNeil /  Paul McNeil / Hamish Muir , Roy Burns III, Simon Larbalestier and Studio Pensom / Paul Pensom. Released: November 2021. 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