NEWS
October 15th, 2025
Design Teaching | While there is still capacity
for more design teaching roles FL@33’s Tomi Vollauschek is pleased to announce his re‑appointment as Visiting Lecturer at ECV Lille for the academic year 2025/2026, teaching two independent online Master‑level modules – Culture Graphique et Parcours Graphique and Stratégie de Communication. In early 2026, he will also return on site to lead his ever‑popular week‑long Masterclass workshop as part of a design residency.
___ In addition, Tomi has recently joined Strate – École de Design, Lyon as Visiting Lecturer, where he leads a multi‑disciplinary hybrid course for fifth‑year students in collaboration with Kookmin University Seoul.
___ All modules feature specially developed syllabi, including a new updated version of Grid Adventures: Design Beyond Boundaries. The dedicated Design Teaching section flat33.com/edu has also been updated – now showcasing 2025 documentations with new snapshots from the Bachelor ECV Bordeaux workshop and ECV Lille Master Diplomas. [EDU+]
October 14th, 2025
Design Teaching | Having had the pleasure of getting to know a super-talented group of ECV Lille Master Design students over a two-year period – conducting both a FL@33 Masterclass Workshop in Lille later teaching some of these students in the remote course Culture Graphique, FL@33’s Tomi Vollauschek was subsequently re-appointed as one of the tutors for their final year projects.
___ Following a kind invitation from ECV to come to Lille and celebrate the students’ successful Master Diplomas, Tomi took a few snapshots and videos. Some of these impressions from earlier in the summer have now been added to the documentation page at flat33.com. [EDU+]
October 13th, 2025
Design Teaching| Without further ado we have just posted the image-heavy documentation from the Masterclass Workshop at ECV Bordeaux that Tomi held there earlier this year. It was one of the rare occasions Tomi's Personal Projects and the Power of Three (PPP3) workshop was conducted with Bachelor- rather than Master-level Design students. And they did great! Almost all dared to try something new or challenging. A steep learning curve – just as it should be. Chapeau! Here a few snapshots and video stills. We unfortunately forgot the group shot though. [EDU+]
October 3rd, 2025
Design Teaching | Today was the first introductory class of the new multi-disciplinary course at Strate Design Lyon with a syllabus FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek developed for Strate and their collaborative elective course with partner school Kookmin University in Seoul.
___ Shown here are two of the books that we will be looking at in more detail. The influential Korean graphic designer and typographer Ahn Sang-Soo who is coincidentally also included in Pyramyd Editions good old design&designer monograph series FL@33 also features in.
___ A big MERCI BEAUCOUP to the kind students who patiently put up with me today while I was wielding 1,000 books I schlepped there. I can not wait to see what we can develop with this group of graphic, spatial and product designers. [EDU+]
October 1st, 2025
Design Teaching | FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek has been appointed as a Visiting Lecturer at Strate Design Lyon to lead an innovative hybrid course in collaboration with Kookmin University Seoul.
___ This multicultural course explores flexible visual identity systems that bridge French and Korean design sensibilities with a strong emphasis on cultural empathy, interdisciplinary approaches, and contemporary craft inspirations. A documentation will as always eventually be posted here at flat33.com. [EDU+]
September 26th, 2025
Yay! The new batch of FL@33-designed holographic Stereohype mascot squirrel stickers is here. We’ll put some aside for the Illustrators' Fair in London where we will once again have a colourful Stereohype stand with button badges and print goodies – including some by FL@33.
___ Save the date and come and say Hi! 6 Dec, 11am-5pm, The Crossing inside Granary Building, Granary Square, King’s Cross, London.
July 1st, 2025
Fedrigoni 365 time! For an eighth time, FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek contributed an annual typographic interpretation to this calendar and design compendium by the Italian paper company Fedrigoni. See Tomi's latest Fedrigoni 365 (2025) minimalistic design here, and all the previous contributions can be found via this link.
___ The special 2025 Opposites-themed incarnation of this beautiful publication features a new design by Tomi, who was briefed to freely interpret and create an experimental visual for the date 1 July 2025. The allocated seed word was “Timeless”. The artwork was printed with Pantone Silver on black Fedrigoni stock in the Dark section of the publication.
___ This top-quality collaborative project has already raised over £30,000 for selected charities.
June 26th, 2025
Design Teaching | Wishing all ECV Lille Graphic Design & Art Direction students all the best for this week's Master diploma presentations – especially my remote Alternance gang.
___ After a week-long ECV France – École de Création Visuelle – workshop in Lille and a remote class in Culture Graphique, FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek was also one of the tutors for their final year projects. Good luck – you've got this!
See you on Friday!
April 25th, 2025
Design Teaching | The ECV Bordeaux, Design Residency 2025 came to an end with some very good and some excellent student workshop results by the talented Bachelor Design students who attended the FL@33 Masterclass Workshop, Personal Projects and the Power of Three (PPP3), that Tomi Vollauschek, Co-founder and Creative Director of FL@33 and Stereohype, ran there this week. Bravo all around! Documentation to follow. [EDU+]
April 18th, 2025
Design Teaching | Just a few days before heading to the Bordeaux branch of ECV France – École de Création Visuelle, after Easter, to run a new round of the always-popular FL@33 Masterclass workshop, Personal Projects and the Power of Three (PPP3), we have just posted the image-heavy documentation from the ECV Lille PPP3 workshop held in February.
___ The previous workshop was with Master 1 students, while FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek will conduct sessions with two groups of Bachelor Design students in Bordeaux next week. That documentation will follow soon. [EDU+]
February 20th, 2025
Design Teaching | Self-portrait reflected in the new visual identity dots from ECV France – École de Création Visuelle. FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek is once again currently at the ECV branch in Lille to run one of his always-popular week-long Masterclass workshops, Personal Projects and the Power of Three (PPP3), with a new group of Master 1 Graphic Design & Art Direction students.
___ You can book Tomi via flat33.com/edu > contact, where he has also posted documentation of various workshops, courses, jury member activities, and lectures at international design colleges from Lille to Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux to Cambridge, Copenhagen to Darmstadt, and London to Baltimore.
___ The latest ECV Lille workshop documentation will be posted here at flat33.com soon. [EDU+]
February 11th, 2025
Design Teaching | Now online: Culture Graphique Course documentation with Tomi Vollauschek's Master 2 syllabus Grid Adventures: Design Beyond Boundaries he developed in his role as visiting lecturer [intervenant] at ECV Lille – École de Création Visuelle. [EDU+]
January 24th, 2025
Design Teaching | Yours truly – re-appointed to be Visiting Lecturer [intervenant] for 2025 at ECV France – École de Création Visuelle – tutoring Final Year / Master's Degree Graduation Projects mostly online across a 5-month-period for Master 2 / year 5 Graphic Design and Art Direction 'alternance' students at ECV Lille, France. [EDU+]
January 23rd, 2025
Design Teaching | Without further ado, we have just added to FL@33's recently launched Design Teaching archive and overview: the documentation and specially developed briefs for the brand-new English-language editorial design and typography workshop, Micro to Macro – A Comprehensive Typography Masterclass by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek, for Graphic Design & Art Direction Master's (Yr 4 / M1 Alt) students at French Design College ECV Aix-en-Provence.
January 1st, 2025
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To new beginnings and all the great things we will create together this year! Wishing you all a healthy, creative and happy 2025.
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December 7th, 2024
Save the date! Mr Stereohype aka FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek will be in London – out there in the wild once more – together with chief assistant Josh... Please come and visit our Stereohype / FL@33 stand at the Illustrators' Winter Fair on Saturday, 7 December 2024, where we will offer all our 1777 beautiful button badges and bring a few optional gift boxes along. Over 100 illustrators and artists will again be part of this beautiful (and free) event in London. 11am–5pm. It's indoors in the stunning ‘Crossing’ entrance hall to the Granary building on Granary Square, King's Cross, N1C. See our previous stands here. A documentation will be posted here. (Photo credit: Spoon Shao)
November 21st, 2024
The Fedrigoni 365 (2025) launch in London was a special occasion held over two days (21–22 November). Throughout the busy event, manufacturers and collaborators gave insightful live-streamed talks, while the impressive design contributions were proudly showcased – including the artwork by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek who contributed for an eighth year running. See the typographic experiments FL@33 created for Fedrigoni 365 since 2017.
October 31st, 2024 ≶
This new personal S.A.V. monogram was developed by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek. The logo is a striking blend of minimalism and symbolism for a young man poised for success.
___ The two opposing arrows converge to form an 'S', representing the past and future, while grounding him in the now. This design embodies personal growth, balancing reflection and action, and highlights how experiences shape our journey. We posted a few more pictures here. ≶
October 31st, 2024
Design Teaching | A fresh new editorial design and typography masterclass workshop by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek comes to an end after a week with ECV France Graphic Design & Art Direction Master students in Aix-en-Provence. Micro to Macro – A Comprehensive Typography Masterclass provided an overall successful crash course for some and an in-depth refresher for others. It was a new group of students who had recently come together for the two-year Master's ECV course; they came from different schools and had varying specialisations, knowledge, and skill bases.
___ A steep learning curve for students and teacher alike. Tomi went with the flow, fine-tuned, and adjusted to squeeze in as much theory and practice as possible in just four days – a whirlwind of presentations, tutorials, exercises, poster and book designs.
___ Here a link to an overview of Tomi's Design Teaching, including previous workshops, lectures and jury activities at ECV Lille / Bordeaux / Aix-en-Provence, France. [EDU+]
October 28th, 2024
Design Teaching | FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek is in Aix-en-Provence this week to run his new workshop Micro to Macro – A Comprehensive Typography Masterclass. It was developed to provide an editorial design and typography crash course for some and an indepth refresher for others. Tomi's masterclass offers a comprehensive journey through typography, from the minutiae of letterforms to the broader aspects of page layout and book design.
___ This exceptionally only 4-day-long experience balances theory and practice, progressing from micro-typographic exercises inspired by Swiss Style to macro-typographic challenges in contemporary book design.
___ Previous workshops, lectures and jury activities at ECV Aix-en-Provence / Lille / Bordeaux, France. [EDU+]
October 16th, 2024
Newsletter October 2024 | Design Studio FL@33 News, Design Teaching, New Work
A ultra-rare newsletter to mark a new era. It sure is a colourful, surprising and comprehensive one – and starts like this:
Good morning! Guten Morgen! Bonjour↔!
Three (3!) house and studio moves in three years – it's a theme, apparently. From Central London's Clerkenwell to Barnsbury, followed by Angel, and now, after over 23 years in London, it's Lyon in France. Packing and unpacking, tears and laughter, questions and more questions. The dust has settled. Life can be messy, croissants consistently divine.
___ Time to start afresh. It's been too long – but here it is – leaner, stronger and more determined than ever, with over 23 years of experience: Design Studio FL@33.
Graphic Design / Art & Creative Direction / Design Teaching:
What can we create together?
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September 30th, 2024
[EDU+] ← This is a new Design Teaching tag for selected documentation and news pages, from flat33.com's usual Exhibitions etc. page.
___ This additional browsing option allows us to bring them all together in one compilation. A new Design Teaching focus that presents an overview of Tomi Vollauschek's educational collaborations with international Art & Design Colleges including Tomi's Masterclass workshops, courses, jury duty and college lectures.
September 27th, 2024
Design Teaching | After over eight years of collaboration with ECV France as an external educator, speaker, and designer in residence, Tomi Vollauschek from FL@33 is honoured to be re-appointed as a visiting lecturer [intervenant] at ECV Lille – École de Création Visuelle. In this role, he will teach a remote Culture Graphique course with a specially developed Master 2 syllabus Grid Adventures: Design Beyond Boundaries.
___ During his time at ECV France (Lille, Bordeaux and Aix-en-Provence), Tomi has led masterclass workshops, delivered talks, and participated in diploma graduation jury duties. His new position continues to enable him to inspire students in the field of visual communication. [EDU+]
August 28th, 2024
New identity system with playful logo, developed by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek for long-time collaborator Jan von Holleben and his latest adventure: Kids Love Photography – a new imprint focusing on lovely photography books for children. The new project page showcases the new logo, variants and coulourways, social media assets including logo animations.
August ꩜th, 2024
For a seventh time, FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek contributed an annual typographic interpretation to this calendar and design compendium by the Italian paper company Fedrigoni. See Tomi's latest Fedrigoni 366 (2024) more abstract design here, and all the previous contributions can be found via this link.
___ The special 2024 Generative Uniqueness-themed incarnation of this beautiful publication features a new design by Tomi, who was briefed to freely interpret and create an experimental visual for the number 16, with his allocated calendar date being 16 August.
___ This top-quality collaborative project has already raised over £30,000 for selected charities.
