NEWS
March 8th, 2020
An ongoing Arts Affaires-commissioned exhibion opportunity allowed us to update our ongoing 8min 20sec FL@33 project with new and remastered 1080p full HD 8min 20sec video composition andnew super-high-resolution sequence prints. These new artworks by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek are now exhibited in Paris. Update: the installation was launched just days before the first European lockdowns. The usually busy office spaces are more or less abandonded now but the exhibition will run for at least a year. Strange times... The show must go on.
March 5th, 2020
Using FL@33's original 8min 20sec recordings from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris: we created a first ever version of 8min 20sec (Cars #2, 2020) – in 1080p full HD, no less – together with remastered super-high-resolution sequence prints. The new 8min 20sec (Cars #2) print will also be on display in FL@33's forthcoming exhibition in Paris.
March 4th, 2020
Char De Voile #2 is a new artwork for a forthcoming exhibition of our ongoing FL@33 project 8min 20sec. This latest addition form part of a remastered and new series ofsuper-high-resolution sequence prints that will be on show in Paris soon, next to new 1080p full HD remasters of 8min 20sec video compositions. This one is based on original video footage that was recorded in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France, where a Char De Voile (Sand Yachting / Land Sailing) race took place.
March 3rd, 2020
The new super-high-resolution sequence print 8min 20sec (Cars #1, 2020) is now ready for a forthcoming FL@33 exhibition in Paris. In tandem with new print versions we also remastered the 8min 20sec Cars #1 video patchwork in 1080p full HD quality.
February 23rd, 2020
Tomi goes France once again — T — at Bordeaux Airport. The FL@33 design residency 2020 at ECV Bordeaux (École de Communication Visuelle / School of Visual Communication) kicks off tomorrow with two 5-day year 2 and 3 graphic design workshops and an evening lecture about life, work and everything in between, followed by a raffle / tombola with FL@33 / Stereohype goodies for students.
___ The inspirational FL@33 workshop Personal Projects and the Power of Three was fine-tuned and adjusted for younger students. A documentation will as always be posted as soon as possible.
February 22nd, 2020
Just in time before heading to another 5-day FL@33 design residency with workshops and lecture at ECV Bordeaux, we finally finished the online documentation of the ECV Lille masterclass workshop FL@33’s Tomi Vollauschek ran earlier this month.
February 2nd, 2020
A new 8min 20sec video composition using original video footage that was recorded in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France, where a Char De Voile (Sand Yachting / Land Sailing) race took place in spring 2019. New super-high-resolution sequence prints and a 1080p full HD video patchwork join this collection and ongoing FL@33 project. New artworks will also be added to the forthcoming exhibition in Paris.
February 1st, 2020
Time flies when you are having fun. The FL@33 design residency 2020 at ECV Lille (École de Communication Visuelle / School of Visual Communication) came to an end today with a great exhibition and student presentations of this week's inspirational FL@33 masterclass workshop Personal Projects and the Power of Three. We will as always post a documentation at flat33.com as soon as possible. A big MERCI BEAUCOUP and BRAVO to all the participating students.
Next step: ECV Bordeaux later this month...
January 26th, 2020
More 8min 20sec project updates: a new 1080p full HD remastered video composition of People #3 is now ready and will soon be added to our project collection. A new super-high-resolution version of the sequence print People #3 will also be exhibited in a forthcoming installation in Paris.
___ The people from above were originally recorded in 2002 in Paris from the Eiffel Tower that offers a bird’s-eye view to the surrounding city and the pedestrians below.
January 24th, 2020
The FL@33-designed custom Havana Club Especial bottle, that we created for the exhibition 100 Pieces of Havana in 2008, has been acquired by a private collector in Germany. Our La Bodeguita del Medio-inspired bottle is now in the permanent Arno Schwarz collection. We updated the project page with additional pictures.
January 22nd, 2020
Apart from lectures 8min 20sec (Cars #3, 2004/2009/2020) was last screened in public in 2009 in London Transport Museum when it was still a version with the then new 720p DVD widescreen resolution. The new 2020 1080p full HD remaster looks great and we will update our Vimeo file and page ASAP. More info on the updated and new Paris exhibits soon... Project page (see also sequence prints).
January 21st, 2020
New work and updates – Preparations are in progress for a full HD 2020 remaster of FL@33’s good old video patchwork artwork 8min 20sec (Cars #3, 2004/2009/2020) for a forthcoming exhibition in Paris.
___ Apart from lectures last screened in public in 2009 in London Transport Museum when it was still a then new 720p DVD widescreen resolution. The new 2020 1080p full HD version looks great and we will update our Vimeo file and page ASAP. More info on the updated and new Paris exhibits soon...
January 5th, 2020
Tomi trapped inside The Seeing Space by Olafur Eliasson, Tate Modern, London.
January 2nd, 2020
Wishing you a healthy, happy and altogether satisfying and creative 2020! Oh—and peace on Earth we should say, considering this random fireworks picture we took with a strange new night mode setting...
December 29th, 2019
RIP Vaughan Oliver (1957–2019)
'Such devastating news today. Vaughan Oliver has died. He was a larger than life person, my design hero, an immense inspiration for me and a whole generation of graphic designers. Vaughan was a gentle, humble and generous man I had the pleasure to meet a few times over the years. We even hugged once.
___ I had the honour to feature his beautiful work in some of my design studio’s books and he collaborated with my graphic art label by contributing button badge designs and a commissioned poster.
___ Vaughan’s work is one of the reason’s why I fell in love with many of my now favourite bands, why I became a graphic designer and why I eventually moved to the UK where I subsequently met my wife and mother of my children. My thoughts are with his family now.
___ My sincere condolences to his family and loved ones. I very briefly met his son Callum, his wife Lee a few times and I saw a video recording of the birth of his son Beckett during a Vaughan Oliver lecture many moons ago in the 90s. I am deeply shocked about Vaughan’s passing. He left us far too early. One of a kind. One of the very greats. He didn’t want to accept his first royalties for his Down To Ten Men poster and asked me to buy something nice for my newborn daughter at the time. What a lovely Mensch. I am truly heart-broken. Shine on! #rip 🖤'
Tomi Vollauschek
Picture credits | The photo was taken at Vaughan’s Where is My Mind / Pixies exhibition in London in 2016, shortly before one of Vaughan’s inspirational lectures. From left to right: FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek (with our FL@33 copy of Vaughan’s Stereohype posters on Tomi's back that Vaughan kindly signed that evening), Charles Thompson aka Black Francis aka Frank Black, Vaughan and Callum Oliver.
December 24th, 2019
*** Happy holidays! ***
December 14th, 2019
Yay! 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 – yet fun! Please come and visit us again this year! We will have a scrumptious double-length Stereohype / FL@33 stand at the House of Illustration Winter Fair 2019 that takes place on Saturday, 14 December, 11am–5pm.
___ It's 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 will post a documentation here afterwards. See our two stands from 2018 here and here. We offer smiles and direct eye contact for all. Follow the squirrel and the silver helium balloons (and ask for a free copy of our book Stereohype 2004–2014). The documentation will be posted here.
December 11th, 2019
The FL@33 end of year round-up: 2019 Newsletter (#8) is out now featuring new work, out-of-studio-action and new product releases.
December 10th, 2019
We are very happy to announce that FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek has been appointed for a 5th year running to be visiting lecturer as part of a 2020 design residencies at ECV Lille in January and ECV Bordeaux in February – for the first time in both French cities within one year.
___ Tomi will run a 5-day master class workshop in Lille and workshops for graphic design students from year 2 and 3 in Bordeaux where he will also give an evening lecture. See details in our Exhibitions etc section and documentations of previous workshops and design residencies here.
December 9th, 2019
Looking back at 2019 this Fleabag chair picture from September created a bit of a highlight a few months ago – so we finally decided to post it here at flat33.com, too.
___ FL@33's Agathe Jacquillat took this photo minutes before Phoebe Waller-Bridge appeared on stage to perform her award-winning one-woman play Fleabag in London's West End. We posted it on Instagram that night and received an email within hours from her personal assistant to let us know that Phoebe Waller-Bridge found the theatrical atmosphere Agathe captured 'AMAZING'.
___ And we were still over the moon from just seeing the brilliant play... Prints are now available on demand.
December 4th, 2019
Our contributions to Stereohype's FL@33-curated B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Button Badge Series 19 that added 44 designs to the now 1539-strong collection. The designs were also applied to the more recently introduced Button Badge Motif Print edition that now features over 400 designs with commissioned artworks from talents we invite from around the world. FL@33 also contributes to these releases every year.
___ This time FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek created four minimal creations for vinyl lovers – a celebration of the good old 7" single record and various 45rpm Adaptors – the title of this set.
December 2nd, 2019
For a third year running FL@33 contributed a typographic interpretation to a calendar and design compendium by Italian paper company Fedrigoni. The project page is now live. See our Fedrigoni 366 (2020) contribution project page here, the documentation of recent launch event here previous FL@33 designs for Fedrigoni here.
November 30th, 2019
AIGA Eye on Design article about FL@33's sister-company Stereohype celebrates its 15th birthday, by Emily Gosling.
November 29th, 2019
Digital Arts article These are the best badges of 2019 written by Neil Bennett about FL@33's sister-company Stereohype and its 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 28th, 2019
NooooooooOOOOOO – All the Likes we collected via our AddThis website plugin were unfortunately deleted when we added a secure SSL certificate to flat33.com this month. While we are now able to show off our hopefully at least somewhat reassuring 'closed padlock' symbol in our browser window – our share counts do seem to be lost for good. Thanks for sharing some FL@33 love – so we get our Likes back!
___ Picture credit: Our Mind-blown custom emoji for the FL@33-designed book The Story of Emoji.
