NEWS

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Additional Stereohype-related press and news items have been archived at flat33.com – website of multi-disiplinary design studio FL@33, Stereohype's parent company.

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November 4th, 2025

Good news (under the circumstances)!  SHIPPING TO USA RESUMED  An update just in from the French La Poste regarding the USA tariffs which resulted in an EU wide suspension of shipping. We will now be able to set up an extra USA shipping cost checkout option and make Stereohype goodies also available again for North America without having to pay super-expensive couriers anymore. It’ll be more reasonable going forward while the USA import tariffs are in place.

Here is what they wrote: Madam, Sir, We are pleased to inform you that, since October 30, shipments of goods to the United States are again possible, exclusively via Colissimo online on the laposte.fr website.

As a reminder: Recently, all shipments of goods to the United States are taxable from the first dollar. Customs duties and taxes are now the responsibility of the sender and must be paid before the package leaves France. When you purchase online, these fees will be automatically calculated and added to the postage cost. So no surprises when orders arrive at their destination – it's all been taken care of as part of the purchase.

October 30th, 2025

RIP Andy Altmann 1962–2025

Very sad news last night via @andy_altmann_studio: Andy Altmann has died. I was lucky enough to finally meet Andy in 2023 for a long chat – one of my design heroes from my time studying design in the ’90s. I had some of my cherished and influential design books, from Typography Now to tat*, signed by him, gave him some badges and prints he had designed for us, shared lunch, and had a long conversation about life, health, priorities, work, and how very much he loved his family.

A giant in design and a true Mensch – generous, kind, optimistic, and incredibly strong. My sincere condolences to his family and friends. Shine on! RIP ♥ 

Personal words by Tomi Vollauschek,
October 2025

October 28th, 2025 (see you in December hopefully)

Please come and visit Stereohype’s Illustrators' Winter Fair stand on Saturday, 6 December 2025, where we will offer beautiful prints, button badges and gift boxes. Over 100 illustrators and artists will be part of this beautiful (and free) indoors event in London once again. 11am-5pm, The Crossing inside Granary Building, Granary Square, King’s Cross, London, Planet Earth.

September 26th, 2025

Yay! The new batch of holographic Stereohype stickers is here. We’ll put some aside for the this year's Illustrators' Winter Fair in London where we will once again have a colourful stand with button badges and print goodies.

Save the date: 6 Dec 2025, 11am-5pm, The Crossing inside Granary Building, Granary Square, King’s Cross, London

August 27th, 2025

Banking Crisis, Brexit, Covid, wars and now this: Temporary suspension of shipments to the United States

This just in from from our local EU postal service that we use to ship most orders around the world with.

Dear Customer (speaking to the Stereohype Lyon warehouse),

As a customer who has made international shipments in 2024 or 2025, we would like to inform you about upcoming changes in American trade policy. The American authorities have recently passed a decree that fundamentally changes the customs procedures for goods shipped to the United States.

What is changing?

From 29 August 2025, all shipments will be taxed from the first dollar (with the exception of gifts worth less than USD 100), whereas previously there was a duty-free limit of USD 800.
Customs duties must be paid directly to the US Customs and Border Protection agency before the goods are imported into the United States.

Temporary suspension of shipments

As postal operators have not been given any time to adapt their IT systems to the new requirements, La Poste is temporarily suspending shipments to the United States and associated territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, Mariana Islands, American Samoa and Minor Islands) from 25 August 2025.

What is still possible

The following shipments are not affected by this measure and will continue to be permitted:
✔ Letters containing only documents
✔ Letters and parcels containing gifts with a total value of less than
100 USD, sent by private individuals
✔ The entire Chronopost range
Important

Apart from these three exceptions, all postal items to the United States posted on or after Thursday, 28 August 2025 will be held and returned to the sender.

Instead of using the more reasonably priced national postal service, we can look into using couriers for shipments to the USA whenever the order quantity or order value justifies the extra cost. Please get in touch if you would like to investigate options with us.

June 3rd, 2025

Yay! I finally managed to catch up with the one and only Geneviève Gauckler here in Lyon – a long-time FL@33 and Stereohype collaborator. And whoop! She signed my personal copy of the Stereohype anniversary poster that hangs in my kids’ room. It’s safely back in the frame. The kids and I are over the moon. 8) Get your Geneviève Gauckler badges and prints over at stereohype.com.

April 16th, 2025

London art lovers unite: Saatchi Gallery Store just received a fresh new batch of 34 hand-picked Stereohype button badge designs selected from our already 1777-strong collection. The latest round of 1"/25mm gems also includes 4 new flower artworks to coincide with Saatchi Gallery’s current exhibition Flowers – Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture.

Want to become a stockist, too? Please find an overview on Stereohype’s wholesale options in our Wholesale info section and/or get in touch with Tomi.

January 2nd, 2025

We wish you a healthy, creative, and happy New Year!

After a turbulent couple of years, including our 20th anniversary last October, we have now decided that we will remain open for at least another twelve months, until the end of 2025 – for now. This marks the longest break from our hiatus. Let's do this!

Thank you for your continued support.

July 13th, 2024

Please support Stereohype – a labour of love since 2004.

Please support Stereohype at the Illustrators' Fair or online at stereohype.com. Please come and visit Stereohype’s Illustrators' Fair stand on Saturday, 13 July 2024, where we will offer our button badges and gift boxes. Over 100 illustrators and artists will be part of this beautiful (and free) event in London, Granary Square, King’s Cross. Credits: Original flyer by event organisers.

July 6th, 2024

July 25th, 2023

HIATUS

Stereohype is currently in Maintenance Mode. We are moving and are carefully considering options and possibilities to also operate smoothly from a new EU-based branch going forward.

We apologise that we had to close our online boutique in the process. For now – temporarily. Please follow our journey and next adventures on Instagram, Facebook and/or Twitter, Threads and LinkedIn where we will keep you in the loop about it all.

You can still reach us by email info@stereohype.com or via our social media channels.

Take care and best wishes,

Tomi 8)

December 1st, 2022

Stereohype newsletter #34 was released today announcing the winners of our 18th annual Button Badge Design Competition and this year's beautiful B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Series 22 gems. The newsletter also covers our other annual product launches: super-elegant gift boxes and Button Badge Motif Prints. To subscribe to future issues please click here].

November 30th, 2022

PLEASE NOTE – GIFT VOUCHER CODES

We will be closed between 16 December until 10 January. Gift vouchers are valid until January. Get £20, £10 or £5 off for order values reaching £100, £50 or £25.

Checkout codes:
£20voucher(£100+order)
£10voucher(£50+order)
£5voucher(£25+order)

November 29th, 2022

This year’s 30 hand-picked button badge gems were selected by our esteemed jury panel from 458 accepted entries. Congratulations to all runners-up and winners. Thanks so much to the many judges – current and past – for all their help and a big THANK YOU to all the participants and supporters for the ongoing interest in our competition. Follow the link for all sorts of competition stats and background info!

November 28th, 2022

Our curated VIP design initiative is also out now! Selected international designers, illustrators and artists were once again invited this year to submit designs for this curated one inch (25mm) button badge series. Stereohype sells B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Series 22 badges separately, as artist gift boxes with sets of four and seven badges. Some are also available in 7" glory and feature on 8x10" Button Badge Motif Prints – the label’s fine giclée edition with now over 500 artworks to choose from.

B.I.O. Series 22 includes artworks by Alex Camacho, Atelier Works, Laurie Rosenwald, Marc Atkins, Rob Sanders, Stupendous, Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33.

November 27th, 2022

Our latest stockist is newly launched Jam Bookshop. We offer wholesale prices for stockists and existing contributors. For more info and to join Stereohype stockists such as London's Jam and Saatchi Gallery.

November 26th, 2022

18 brand-new 8x10" Button Badge Motif Prints – the label’s fine giclée edition on textured 310gsm archival stock. 544 designs of Stereohype's 1777-strong button badge collection are now available as super-vibrant prints

November 25th, 2022

Save the date! We had so much fun last summer that we do it again – we will be out there in the wild once more... Please come and visit Stereohype’s Illustrators' Winter Fair stand on Saturday, 10 December 2022, where we will offer all our 1777 beautiful button badges and bring a few optional gift boxes along. Over 100 illustrators and artists will again be part of this beautiful (and free) event in London. 11am–5pm. It's indoors in the stunning ‘Crossing’ entrance hall to the Granary building on Granary Square, King's Cross, N1C.

October 28th, 2022

Halloween offer: 20% off everything Stereohype – using checkout voucher code: BITE20 Happy graphic art and button badge browsing!

October 10th, 2022

Competition update /// Thank you all so much for supporting our design contest. The 458 eligible entries of this year’s 18th annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition are now being considered by our esteemed 17-strong jury panel consisting of previous competition winners, B.I.O. participants, button badge loving writers and journalists and last but not least Stereohype founders FL@33’s Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek. Stay tuned! #stbbdc 18th annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition. Winners and shortlist are currently due to be announced in November.

September 5th, 2022

NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: 22 September 2022 The vast majority is always being submitted in the last few days before the deadline – regardless of when exactly we launch the call for entries or when the deadline is. We tried to get things done a bit earlier this year but there are simply not enough submissions in yet to avoid us getting nervous.

We therefore decided to extend the call for entries until the end of 22 September. Thank you to all the participants who already sent in their entries!

See our dedicated competition page 18th annual Button Badge Design Competition, where you find links to contest and artwork guidelines PDF and Photoshop PSD templates.

July 27th, 2022

PLEASE NOTE – Next dispatch is in September

We will be visiting our squirrel sculpture in France and while you will be able to place orders and make use of our special summer discount, please note that our next dispatch will be at the beginning of September. For a nice chunky 22% price reduction in your checkout basket, please use voucher code: Summer22

Additionally you can also use the code FreeBadgeOfChoice for orders £5+ and add a free badge you select from our 1713-strong collection.

May the sun shine on all of us!

Thanks for being so loyal.
XX

July 20th, 2022

The show must go on! We give you the call for entries to the 18th annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition.

July 17th, 2022

A Big THANK YOU for everybody who managed to join us yesterday at our illustrators' Fair Stereohype stand. It was such a pleasure to finally observe customers browse our button badges. The sound. The interaction. The chats. We missed that. Back to being an online shop now. I hope you will still enjoy browsing our collection – even if you find Music- or Cat-themed badges so much easier and faster online… ;) Big thanks to Josh – our first-time Stereohype assistant for the day. There are a few more snapshots over at our @stereohype Instagram feed.

June 20th, 2022

Save the date! We will be out there in the wild for the first time since December 2019... Please come and visit Stereohype’s Illustrators' Fair stand on Saturday, 16 July 2022, where we will offer beautiful prints, button badges and gift boxes. Over 100 illustrators and artists will be part of this beautiful (and free) event in London, Granary Square, King’s Cross. Credits: Original flyer by event organisers.

January 26th, 2022

We have over 500 – in fact almost all of our currently 523 Button Button Badge Motif prints in stock at the moment. The circular artworks are printed vividly in glorious 7" on beautifully textured 310gsm 8 x 10" (20.3 x 25.4cm) Hahnemühle archival stock. Usually printed on demand within 3 weekdays, we always try to keep our stocked collection complete.