NEWS
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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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.
July 26th, 2024
Design Teaching | Now online: Visual Identity Course documentation with Tomi Vollauschek's Master 2 syllabus in his role as visiting lecturer [intervenant] at ECV Lille – École de Création Visuelle. All the best to the recent graduates! 8)
February 23rd, 2024
Design Teaching | Graduation ceremony time! Kindly invited once again to come to ECV's Aix-en-Provence branch and the city's beautiful Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek was honoured to give a speech to graduates, friends and family, in his role as president and panelist of the international Master Design Jury for Diplomas 2023. [EDU+]
January 15th, 2024
Design Teaching | FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek is back in Lille to run another of his popular masterclass workshops Personal Projects and the Power of Three. The evolving and inspireational workshop was developed by Tomi to encourage experimentation, appreciation of process but also to help students to embrace failure and provoke ‘happy accidents’. The workshop aims to help students find a voice and add more personality and emotion to their work as graphic designers and visual communicators.
___ 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+]
September 22nd, 2023
Design Teaching | After over seven years of collaboration with ECV France as an external educator, speaker, and designer in residence, Tomi Vollauschek from FL@33 is honoured to be appointed as a visiting lecturer [intervenant] at ECV Lille – École de Création Visuelle. In this role, he will teach a remote Visual Identity course.
___ 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 will enable him to continue inspiring students in the field of visual communication. [EDU+]
June 28th, 2023
Design Teaching | Yours truly – Monsieur le President in all-white for once, and gang. ECV Aix-en-Provence jury presidency – the documentation
June 26th, 2023
Design Teaching | Finally the cat is out of the bag. No more a top secret: FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek has the honour of being this year's president of the international ECV Aix-en-Provence jury panel for Master level art direction and design students. See documentation
President of the Jury | Tomi Vollauschek | Portfolio Jury | Magali Tardy-Guyot and Tomi Vollauschek | Project Jury | Clio Chaffardon, Anna Mercurio an Christian Küsters. [EDU+]
May 2nd, 2023
Design Teaching | FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek is in Aix-en-Provence this week to run his evolving masterclass workshop Personal Projects and the Power of Three. It was developed to encourage experimentation, appreciation of process but also to help students to embrace failure and provoke ‘happy accidents’. The workshop aims to help students find a voice and add more personality and emotion to their work as graphic designers and visual communicators.
___ This exceptionally only 4-day-long experience encourages students to develop a sense of authorship and create – and most importantly continue to create – their own self-initiated projects, even after their graduation and into their professional lives.
___ Previous workshops, lectures and jury activities at ECV Aix-en-Provence / Lille / Bordeaux, France. [EDU+]
April 20th, 2023
Design Teaching | Organised by senior lecturer, course leader and FL@33-collaborator Kimberly Ellen Hall, this friendly gang of University of Gloucestershire (UoG) Illustration BA students came to visit our London HQ and listened to a little whirlwind studio history-so-far presentation by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek. There was another raffle of course to win FL@33 goodies and lots and lots of books, magazines, postcards and Stereohype button badges to look at and choose from. [EDU+]
March 29th, 2023
Vive la Nouvelle Vague! Film posters, visual identity and social media campaign by FL@33 for the French short film 1961 featuring the new logo FL@33 also developed the cinematic homage to Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave.
___ The short film was entered to the 62nd edition of the 'International Critics' Week' (Semaine de la Critique – Cannes), the oldest parallel non-competitive section of the Cannes Film Festival. 1961 was also submitted to the Short Film Corner, a program at the Cannes Film Festival dedicated to promoting and showcasing short films.
March 28th, 2023
Produced in 2023 the short film 1961 pays homage to the late Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) and his cinematic tour de force. This bold minimal logo was developed by FL@33 for 1961 and its film title. Photographic logo variants take centre stage in the film's poster and social media campaign.
March 13th, 2023
Design Teaching | Tomi Vollauschek hopped on a train from London to Cambridge today to give a talk with Q&A as part of the Type Talk series at Cambridge College of Art / A.R.U. Anglia Ruskin University.
___ 'A deep-dive into two decades of high-end graphic design practice'. Thanks for inviting FL@33 – especially in such great company – sandwiched in between the amazing Liza Enebeis / Studio Dumbar and Stereohype collaborator Paul McNeil / MuirMcNeil – all in the same month. [EDU+]
March 6th, 2023
Design Teaching | It is a great pleasure to announce that FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek will be giving a talk with Q&A at A.R.U. Anglia Ruskin University / Cambridge College of Art on Monday, 13 March 2023.
___ Potential subjects, mentions and anecdotes might include experimental typography, the power of three, books, a bee, more books, an apartment 33, tower cranes, happy accidents, and Stereohype collaborations and button badges – lots of button badges – and a squirrel... Maybe even a raffle to win FL@33 goodies. [EDU+]
