NEWS

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Additional Stereohype-related press and news items have been archived at flat33.com – website of multi-disiplinary design studio FL@33, Stereohype's parent company.

News archive:
2025 Getting There
2024 EU / UK Chaos
2023 Online Hiatus
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014

January 9th, 2026

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

Another year, another commitment. After a few extremely turbulent years, that also including our 20th anniversary, we have decided once again that we will remain open for at least another twelve months, until the end of 2026 – leaving our hiatus firmly behind. Let's do this!

Thank you for your continued support.

December 6th, 2025

Please support Stereohype – a labour of love since 2004.

Come and visit Stereohype in London on Saturday, 7 Dec, 11–5pm, at the Illustrators’ Fair inside the Granary Building at King’s Cross or visit us online. Our graphic art label with online boutique features our popular collection of already 1777 carefully curated classic one inch metal back button badges by over 650 talents from around the world. Browse online by artist, colour, theme and tags or try to catch us at a market where you can also enjoy the haptic and acoustic pleasure of browsing that many badges. This year’s Stereohype chief assistant Josh who once again helped Mr Stereohype aka FL@33’s Tomi Vollauschek. Documentation over at flat33.com

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. Documentation over at flat33.com

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.

December 7th, 2024

Please support Stereohype – a labour of love since 2004.

Come and visit Stereohype in London on Saturday, 7 Dec, 11–5pm, at the Illustrators’ Fair inside the Granary Building at King’s Cross or visit us online. Our graphic art label with online boutique features our popular collection of already 1777 carefully curated classic one inch metal back button badges by over 650 talents from around the world. Browse online by artist, colour, theme and tags or try to catch us at a market where you can also enjoy the haptic and acoustic pleasure of browsing that many badges. This year’s Stereohype chief assistant Josh who once again helped Mr Stereohype aka FL@33’s Tomi Vollauschek. Picture credit: Spoon Shao. Documentation over at flat33.com

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. Documentation over at flat33.com

July 6th, 2024

December 9th, 2023

Please support Stereohype – a labour of love since 2004.

Come and visit Stereohype in London on Saturday, 9 Dec, 11–5pm, at the Illustrators’ Fair inside the Granary Building at King’s Cross or visit us online. Our graphic art label with online boutique features our popular collection of already 1777 carefully curated classic one inch metal back button badges by over 650 talents from around the world. Browse online by artist, colour, theme and tags or try to catch us at a market where you can also enjoy the haptic and acoustic pleasure of browsing that many badges. Documentation over at flat33.com

July 8th, 2023

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, 8 July 2023, 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. Documentation over at flat33.com

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)