UPDATED, October 28th, 2012

Shortlist (very roughly in alphabetical order)

Here are the updated 2012 competition stats:
276 accepted entries by
86 individual badge designers / studios / collectives
14 disqualified / non-eligible designs
1 of them disqualified for ripping off somebody else's illustration
25 judges / judging teams
59 shortlisted designs featured at stereohype.com
29 runners-up
30 winning designs
6 well-deserved winning sets of 4
6 well-deserved single badge winners
7 special mentions
126 (!) received at least 1 vote
82 (!) were voted for as 1st choice winners
16 were voted for as 1st choice winners at least twice
6 were voted for as 1st choice winners three times or more
15 were voted for by 5 or more judges
57 were voted for by 3 or more judges
82 (!) were voted for by 2 or more judges
44 (!) were voted for by 1 judge each

Stereohype would like to thank everybody for their submissions! It has once again been a tough decision for the entire judging panel. This year's winners are from Peru, Poland, Portugal, Portugal/Germany, The Netherlands, Greece, Italy and United Kingdom.

The winners are:
1st prize (single badge): Kike Riesco
1st prize (set of 4): Konrad Sybilski
2nd prize (single badge): Paul McNeill
2nd prize (set of 4): Anna Giarmeniti
3rd prize (single badge): Juste Halavin
3rd prize (set of 4): Emma Ferraro
4th prize (single badge): Vanda Nascimento
4th prize (set of 4): Heleen van Buul
5th prize (single badge): Sarah Ray
5th prize (set of 4): Eva Goncalves
Special Stereohype Prize (single badge): Zee
Special Stereohype Prize (set of 4): Viola Wang

(prizes)

Congratulations also to all the runners-up who made it into the shortlist of 59! The 30 winning badges are now available for purchase. The others have not been produced by us but will stay online to give credit to everybody who made it into the shortlist.

In addition to everybody on the shortlist we also feel we should mention a few intriguing designs that would have made lovely badges. Unfortunately they did not score enough points this time. A big hands down for (in no particular order): Froidmont Diego, Yumi Okuda, Cynthia Bataille, Kincso Nagy, Maria Magerova, Rebeka Molnar, Lydia Blanco, ...

And last but not least a big THANK YOU goes once again to the nice people from the judging panel who helped us so much!

8th Stereohype button badge design competition


The Judging Panel 2012:

Former competition winners:
Aliz Borsa (winner 2011) typolka.tumblr.com
Eleftheria Alexandri (winner 2011) ilikeyellow.com
Gergo Gilicze (winner 2010), gilicze.tumblr.com
Jacqueline Mertz (winner 2011) jacquelinemertz.ch
Jeff Conway (winner 2011) pushingnormal.com
Jennie Talbot (winner 2011) jennietalbot.blogspot.co.uk
Julien Decaudin (winner 2011), juliendecaudin.com
Mauro Caramella (winner 2005), designaside.com
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A selection of button badge-loving journalists, writers, illustrators, artists and graphic designers from around the world—many of them are B.I.O. (by invitation only) button badge series contributors:
Agathe Jacquillat, FL@33 (BIO1–11), bzzzpeek.com, flat33.com, 3d-type.com
Angharad Lewis, writer and editor
Angus Montgomery, Design Week, designweek.co.uk
Andy Smith (BIO5), asmithillustration.com
Carole Guevin, Featured by .cg (BIO6), caroleguevin.com
Catherine Dixon (BIO10)
Chris Ng, IdN, idnworld.com
Darren Firth, Occupy (BIO5), weoccupy.co.uk, keepsmesane.co.uk
Gavin Lucas, Creative Review, creativereview.co.uk/crblog, getinvolvedclub.com, myspace.com/badgebuttonpin
John O’Reilly, Varoom!, varoom-mag.com
Liz Farrelly, Étapes International, en.etapes.com
Nathan Gale (BIO2), intercitystudio.com, artandsoleblog.com
Richard Kirk (BIO2 and 5)
Robert Urquhart, roberturquhart.blogspot.com
Tomi Vollauschek, FL@33 (BIO1–11), bzzzpeek.com, flat33.com, 3d-type.com
unfolded (team) (BIO10), unfolded.ch
Yee Ting Kuit, (BIO11), yeellustration.co.uk

more badges from our growing collection:
B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 1
B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 2
B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 3
B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 4
B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 5
B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 6
B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 7
B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 8
B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 9
B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 10
B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 11

and all winning badges since 2004 of course