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March 24th, 2020
Please do always check our homepage for up-to-date info. Our virtual shop is up and running and perfectly equipped for today's challenges. To maximise social distancing, we decided to rush to the post office only once a week from now on, to dispatch orders. Currently this is Friday afternoons on our way to grocery shopping. Stay home, stay safe and happy graphic art shopping!
Please note that many of our graphic art prints are printed on demand. We have a lot of them in stock – ready to ship – but please do check availability of prints by emailing us, if it is urgent, as we can currently unfortunately not produce new prints during the UK lockdown.
January 6th, 2020
Happy New Year! Bonne Année! Frohes Neues! We are wishing you all a healthy, creative and happy 2020! Oh—and peace on Earth we should say seeing the random fireworks picture we took with this weird night mode setting...
Happy Holidays!
Last Stereohype 2019 shipping date before we wrap up this year is Friday, December 13th, so please place your orders accordingly. Orders placed afterwards will be processed and shipped in the new year.
Shown here are some of the countless origami squirrels we have been folding this year as part of our 15th anniversary celebrations. Every order currently gets a free origami squirrel add-on goody.
December 14th, 2019
Hey Londoners! We can confirm that Stereohype will come out of its virtual online shell again to meet real people in real life. This promises to be socially awkward again—yet fun! We will also bring our new 15th anniversary gift boxes along – so this will be extra special.
Please do come and visit us again this year! We will have a scrumptious double-length Stereohype / FL@33 stand at the Illustrators' Winter Fair 2019 that takes place on Saturday, 14 December, 11am–5pm – indoors again this year – inside the entrance area of the Granary Building, The Crossing, Central Saint Martins next to House of Illustration, King's Cross, London, 2 Granary Square, N1C 4BH
We offer smiles and direct eye contact for all, we also give away free copies of our Stereohype 2004–2014 book (please ask for a copy if we are too busy to hand them out while you are there). As in previous years please do follow the squirrel and the silver helium balloons. More info at houseofillustration.org.uk. See pictures of our previous stands including the one at last year's Winter Fair – all posted over at our design studio flat33.com.
December 7th, 2019
Embossing time! We now briefly have all 409 Stereohype Button Badge Motif Prints in stock at least once. Preparing the latest additions and top-ups for next week’s House of Illustration Winter Fair... (Sat, 14 Dec, 11–5pm, Granary Building, King’s X). Please check last shipping dates 2019!
November 29th, 2019
AIGA Eye on Design article: Stereohype celebrates its 15th birthday, by Emily Gosling.
November 25th, 2019
Digital Arts article These are the best badges of 2019 written by Neil Bennett about Stereohype's 15th anniversary, how we run and judge our design competition – and a few words about the winners of this year's 15th annual Button Badge Design Competition (2019).
November 25th, 2019
Thank you Digital Arts! That's what they wrote: 'Brilliant Christmas gift ideas for designers and artists 2019 / This Christmas gift guide is made specifically for designers and artists, including the latest design books, children’s illustrated books and badges with wonderful designs relevant to trends from the year. Stocking fillers: The Best Badges of 2019 / Digital Arts editor Neil Bennett helped to judge the winners of this year’s Best Button Badge Design competition, Stereohype’s annual competition which recognises individual and series designs, all of which can be purchased online as either a badge or print. Take a look at all the new badge designs on sale here, selling for only £2 each.'
November 8th, 2019
Stereohype newsletter #23 was released today announcing 156 fresh new badges, prints and gift boxes, this year's 15th annual Button Badge Design Competition results and our participation in the House of Illustration Winter Fair in London. To subscribe to future issues please click here.
November 7th, 2019 — News item 4 of 4
This year's 30 winning badges have just been released. 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 huge interest in our competition. Follow the link for all sorts of competition stats and background info! We'll launch next year's competition in spring... ;)
November 7th, 2019 — News item 3 of 4
Selected international designers, illustrators and artists were invited again this year to submit designs for this one inch (25mm) button badge series. Stereohype sells B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Series 19 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 19 includes artworks by Babette Wagenvoort, Ciarán Meister, David Petzold, Émilie Chabridon, Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33, John Dowling, Lea Wülferth, Matt Jones, Nicola Hockley, Stewy and Struktur Design.
November 7th, 2019 — News item 2 of 4
These are the 66 latest additions to Stereohype's recently launched Button Badge Motif Print edition – 8x10" Fine Art Prints featuring huge seven inch versions of the badge artworks. These latest additions inlude selected B.I.O. Series 19 contributions, some of the competition winners 2019 and a few other selected designs from our now over 1500-strong button badge collection. There are now 409 Button Badge Motif Prints available to choose your wallart from. Latest additions include works by Happypets, Jono Sandilands, Matt Jones and Russell Weekes to name but a few.
November 7th, 2019 — News item 1 of 4
This latest round of releases includes a total of 16 new gift boxes: 15 fresh new matchbox-style artist gift boxes with four button badges each from B.I.O. Series 19 and 'set of 4 category winners' from the 15th annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition (2019). There is also one Artist Gift Box: 7 button badges by B.I.O. 19 contributor by Babette Wagenvoort. Othe other gift boxes are by Ciarán Meister, David Petzold, Émilie Chabridon, Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33, John Dowling, Lea Wülferth, Nicola Hockley, Stewy, Struktur Design, Maria Voichita Popescu, Bobbi Rae, ShallowLagoon, Daria Gudkova, Piotr Depta-Kleśta and Laura Parker.
October 16th, 2019
Stereohype is celebrating its 15th anniversary this month and we found some original rough type sketches and ligature studies for the logo that FL@33 created in 2004 for our London-based graphic art label, platform for talents from around the world and online boutique. See FL@33's project page at flat33.com.
September 26th, 2019
First votes are in... Our esteemed and over 20-strong jury panel is now picking favourites from the 425 eligible artworks submitted to Stereohype's 15th annual Button Badge Design Competition. We already spotted some real gems... Stay tuned!
September 10th, 2019
Thank you very much for all your submissions! The 15th annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition (2019) is now closed. We are preparing many hundreds of submissions for our esteemed judges and will then prepare everything for production and website integration. Please stay tuned for updates later in October.
September 2nd, 2019
Stereohype newsletter #22 was released today with a reminder for this year's call for entries to Stereohype's 15th annual Button Badge Design Competition. The newsletter also features the 294 recently launched matchbox-style gift boxes that contain our popular button badges and sets of 3, 4 and 5 in. To subscribe to future issues please click here.
August 17th, 2019
We are over the moon to welcome the latest addition to our selected stockists: gallery and museum The Lightbox in Woking. To find out how to become a Stereohype stockist in three easy steps, please visit our dedicated wholesale page.
June 17th, 2019
New jury members added: 15th annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition #STBBDC — The deadline to create and submit lovely, humorous and/or witty artworks for those cute little mobile canvases is 09/09/2019.
May 20th, 2019 — News item 3 of 3
Call for entries 2019! 15th annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition #STBBDC — The deadline to create and submit lovely, humorous and/or witty artworks for those cute little mobile canvases is 09/09/2019.
May 20th, 2019 — News item 2 of 3
Until now we used to stick badge orders to postcards but customers will from now on receive their badge orders in super-elegant machbox-style gift boxes that we have just produced in various sizes. Sets of 3 and 4 are now available in this superb packaging that features a foil-blocked hand-printed Stereohype mascot squirrel in fancy rose-gold. Our existing Gift Boxes: 7 button badges are also still available.May 20th, 2019 — News item 1 of 3
Stereohype newsletter #21 was released today announcing the launch of a 294 new matchbox-style gift boxes to present our popular button badges and sets of 3, 4 and 5 in. We also launched this year's call for entries and are now welcoming submissions for Stereohype's 15th annual Button Badge Design Competition. To subscribe to future issues please click here.
May 1st, 2019
We run Masterclass workshops and give lectures at art and design colleges including ECV Lille and ECV Bordeaux every now and then and sometimes we welcome some of their students when they are in London. This great bunch from ECV Lille popped by to visit us at our FL@33 / Stereohype HQ today. Always a pleasure to welcome enthusiastic students. Photos by course leader and long-time collaborator Sebastien Delobel and ECV's Anne-Marie Porreca.
April 18th, 2019
We updated one of our most popular themed Button Badge Gift Boxes of seven and replaced three skull artworks to reflect what our customers like most. Now included are: USOTA taken from Stereohype's B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Series 7, Fay Newman from Competition Winners 2010, French from B.I.O. Series 3, 123klan from B.I.O. Series 2, TwoPoints from B.I.O. Series 6, Ciarán Meister from Competition Winners 2016 and Atiya Batts from Competition Winners 2018. Here are even more skulls.
February 11th, 2019
Stereohype’s growing up. We finally Bisley’ed the hell out of our button badge collection. At long last – more than enough metal drawers with special insert trays full of Stereohype badge samples – 1465 designs to be exact by over 500 artists and designers from around the world.
January 28th, 2019
Our design residency 2019 – Tomi Vollauschek, co-founder of FL@33 and Stereohype will be in France this week to run another of his inspirational five-day-masterclass-workshops with evening lecture at ECV Lille – École de communication visuelle. The evolving workshop covers aspects of design thinking, design process and design philosophy and aims to inspire students to develop their own strong voice through experimentation and personal projects. Please find workshop and lecture documentations at flat33.com's Exhibition etc. section.
January 2nd, 2019
Happy New Year! Bonne Année! Frohes Neues! We are wishing you all a healthy, creative and happy 2019!