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Additional Stereohype-related press and news items have been archived at flat33.com – website of multi-disiplinary design studio FL@33, Stereohype's parent company.

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February 11th, 2019

Stereohype’s growing up. We finally Bisley’ed the hell out of our button badge collection. At 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!

December 24th, 2018

HAPPY HOLIDAYS ***
Happy holidays everybody and thanks to all our supporters, contributors, competition participants, stockists and customers!

December 9th, 2018

Mr Stereohype and the offspring junior assistant badge master thank you so much for popping by our stand yesterday at London's great Illustrators' Winter Fair 2018! Update: we posted a few snapshots of the fair over at flat33.com.

December 7th, 2018

The Festive Season Newslash 2018 edition of our otherwise fairly rare online newsletter was sent out today. To subscribe to future issues please click here.

December 2nd, 2018 (Fair is on Saturday 8 December)

Yeah! Stereohype will come out of its virtual online shell again this Christmas to meet real people in real life. This promises to be socially awkward again—yet fun! 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 2018 that takes place on Saturday, 8 December, 11am–5pm – this time indoors inside the entrance area of the 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 stand at last year's Winter Fair and our stand at the Summer Fair 2018 – all posted over at our design studio flat33.com.

November 22nd, 2018

Digital Arts article about Stereohype's Button Badge Design Competition winners 2018, B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Series 18 and the related Button Badge Motif Prints. See the Best Button Badge Designs of 2018, written by Giacomo Lee, London, UK, 22 November 2018 (English). We'll post an archived version over at flat33.com soon. In the meantime you can read the article directly at digitalartsonline.co.uk.

November 20th, 2018

Stereohype newsletter #20 was released today announcing the launch of a record-breaking 219 new product releases including this year's Button Badge Design Competition winners but also B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Series 18 and the related Button Badge Motif Prints and themed luxury gift boxes. To subscribe to future issues please click here.

November 19th, 2018 — 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 but we had 680 accepted submissions! We'll launch next year's competition in spring... ;)

November 19th, 2018 — News item 3 of 4

Selected international designers, illustrators and artists were invited by us to submit designs for our annual one inch (25mm) button badge initiative B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) and the resulting B.I.O. Series 18 is a 78-strong range of button badge gems created by Agathe Jacquillat / FL@33, Andreas Gnass / U9 visuelle Allianz, Mike Faulkner / D-Fuse, Dan Fern, Daniel Koh, Gregori Saavedra, Holger Jacobs / Mind Design, Maria Nechaeva, Matthew John Oakley, Renaud Vigourt, Richard Fenwick and Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33.

November 19th, 2018 — News item 2 of 4

A whopping 95 new Button Badge Motif Print artworks were just added to our new Fine Art Giclée Print edition including almost all B.I.O. Series 18 artworks and all competition winners 2018. Launched only a couple of years ago we now already offer 343 Button Badge Motif Prints.

November 19th, 2018 — News item 1 of 4

Ten beautiful themed luxury gift boxes have been added to our collection today – all featuring fresh new badges created for B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Button Badge Series 18 and created by Agathe Jacquillat / FL@33, Andreas Gnass / U9 visuelle Allianz, Mike Faulkner / D-Fuse, Dan Fern, Gregori Saavedra, Holger Jacobs / Mind Design, Maria Nechaeva, Renaud Vigourt, Richard Fenwick and Tomi Vollauschek / FL@33.

September 18th, 2018

Thank you very much for all your submissions! The competition is now closed. We will now start to prepare many hundreds of submissions for our esteemed judges and then prepare everything for production and website integration. Please stay tuned for updates later in October.

August 28th, 2018

Overflown inboxes are cleared and back orders processed and shipped after returning from time abroad to work but also relax, breathe fresh air, recharge and look at the sky a lot (and take pictures). We are now officially back in the studio and open for business. Graphic Design: FL@33, Graphic Art products: Stereohype.

August 16th, 2018

Hong Kong-based IdN magazine kindly shouted info about our call for entries from their rooftops as part of their Pick of the Month.

July 2nd, 2018

Thank you to all who shared and liked our online announcements and those of you who had a chance to actually pop by to say hi and buy a few gems! Badges, T-shirts and prints were available – many of them were on offer for extra special non-online prices. We'll try to be back there for the Christmas Fair... In the meantime you can see this summer's documentation over at flat33.com.

June 29th, 2018

The 18th issue of our html Stereohype newsletter was released announcing our House of Illustration Summer Fair participation tomorrow and also shows some preparation work pictures. To subscribe to future issues please click here.

June 28th, 2018

Please come and visit us at the amazing House of Illustration's Summer Fair 2018 this weekend. Follow the squirrel and the helium balloons! Badges, T-shirts and prints will be on offer for extra special non-online prices. We will have an extra-long Stereohype / FL@33 stand on the giant canopied outside yard between Central Saint Martins and House of Illustration, King's Cross, London, 2 Granary Square, N1C 4BH, Saturday, 30 June 2018, 11am–5pm. More info at flat33.com and houseofillustration.org.uk. See our previous Christmas Fair stands at the same location here and here.

May 23rd, 2018

We updated our Privacy Policy text to explain in more detail how and why we have been – and always will be – data protection ninjas. One of those annoying but required GDPR emails has also just been emailed to all our subscribers – pointing out that we are the real ninjas and that you can of course continue to unsubscribe or update your preferences with every email newsletter we send you – or by going to our subscription page.

As a loyalty treat we offer a 10% discount and a free button badge of your choice to be added to any order by using the following checkout voucher codes! Simply copy and paste 10% off checkout voucher code: NUTS10 (valid until end of May) and for a free badge to be added to any order also enter and confirm: FreeBadgeOfChoice

April 18th, 2018

Call for entries 2018 launched! 14th 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 17 September 2018.
Happy badge-designing and good luck!

March 29th, 2018

Get 20% discount and a free button badge of your choice by using the following checkout voucher codes! Simply copy and paste 20% off checkout voucher code (valid until 16 April 2018): NUTS20 and for a free badge also enter and confirm: FreeBadgeOfChoice

March 23rd, 2018 — News item 3 of 3

We released 54 new Button Badge Motif Prints bringing our total available Stereohype product count to 2065, available badges to 1357 and Button Badge Motif Prints to 248.New products are by talents from around the world including
Anthony Burrill, Cynthia Bataille, FL@33, Gavin Lucas, Goldlion Studio, Jean-Claude Chianale, José Cunha, Judith Egger, Kapitza, Kike Riesco, Matthew Kenyon, Sarah Ray and Stefan G. Bucher.

March 23rd, 2018 — News item 2 of 3

26 button badges – including four sets of three – were finally released and feature the long-awaited Stereohype mascot squirrels 2004–2018 (and of course some nuts). Some are gold, some silver, others are in patina green or show off their colourful gradients. Some of them were even launched as Fine Art Prints as part of Stereohype's growing Button Badge Motif Print edition.

March 23rd, 2018 — News item 1 of 3

The 16th issue of our html Stereohype newsletter was released today announcing 84 new product launches, a 20% spring break discount and a free badge offer (valid until April 16th). To subscribe to future issues please click here.

February 16th, 2018

Wang Wang! Happy Chinese New Year! Let's celebrate the Year of the Dog with a Chinese imitation of a dog's sound: Wang Wang which is Mandarin Chinese for Bow Wow, Woof Woof or Ruff Ruff! Celebrate with a few remaining FL@33-designed bzzzpeek / onomatopoeia-themed Stereohype T-shirts! Here a link to all Dog-themed Stereohype items we have. 8)

February 7th, 2018

All these beautiful Stereohype button badge designs have now been restocked at House of Illustration in London. Visit our wholesale page here.

February 5th, 2018

ECV Bordeaux design residency 2018 – Tomi Vollauschek, co-founder of FL@33 and Stereohype will head to France for a few days to run another two five-day-masterclass-workshops next week at ECV Bordeaux – École de communication visuelle. The workshops will cover aspects of design thinking, design process and design philosophy and aim to inspire students to develop their own strong voice through experimentation and personal projects. See documentation 2017 over at flat33.com. ‬ A workshop 2018 documentation will of course also get a dedicated page afterwards. This starman stop/go sign picture was taken in Bordeaux last year.

February 2nd, 2018

We are happy to announce a new international Stereohype stockist! Welcome to our family: Superjuju from Stuttgart, Germany! Want to become a stockist? Here is our how-to-become-a-stockist-in-three-steps page.

February 1st, 2018

Postcard Set #5 (2018): Printed in a limited edition of 500 each these assorted postcards are give-aways for Stereohype orders, trade shows, workshops, conferences and exhibitions, etc.

This latest set features one of Agathe's Leaves prints from Button Badge Motif Prints, our Party Squirrel Sculpture created for the 10th anniversary exhibition Stereohype 2004–2014, a picture of our ever-growing button badge collection and last but not least a screenshot of flat33.com's homepage – the design studio website of Stereohype's parent-company FL@33.

January 31st, 2018

The latest round of invitations for the FL@33-curated Button Badge Motif Print edition have been sent out and Stereohype will release these new Fine Art Giclée Prints in a few weeks.

January 5th, 2018

Wishing you a healthy, happy and creative 2018!