NEWS
October 15th, 2024
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New Design Teaching overview,
Press archive,
Exhibitions etc,
Fedrigoni 365/366 work,
Fedrigoni 366 2024 launch exhibition,
Kids Love Photography logo / social media assets,
Equity – The Board Game / logo update,
Equity logo animation and logo variants / Fostering Responsible Finance,
Equity – educational board game design,
Design teaching 2024 – ECV Lille Masterclass Workshop documentation,
Design teaching – ECV Aix-en-Provence Masterclass Workshop documentation,
Design teaching – ECV Visual identity course documentation,
ECV Aix jury presidency and graduation ceremony,
Design Teaching – ECV Aix and Lille: ongoing and forthcoming new workshops and courses,
Illustrators' Fairs, London,
FL@33 News,
Newsletter,
Stereohype hiatus on/off,
London / Lyon, ...
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.
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
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
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
Yours truly – Monsieur le President in all-white for once, and gang. ECV Aix-en-Provence jury presidency – the documentation
June 26th, 2023
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
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
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
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
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+]
<3≈ March 2023
For a sixth time FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek contributed an annual typographic interpretation to this calendar and design compendium by Italian paper company Fedrigoni. See our latest Fedrigoni 365 (2023) contribution here and our many previous designs can be found via this link.
___ The special 2023 love-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 3 – with his allocated calendar date being 3 March.
___ A big THANK YOU to TM and Fedrigoni for getting us involved again. It is as always our pleasure to be involved in such top quality collaborative projects like this.
February 24th, 2023
FL@33 work for Equity – The Board Game. It all started with the playfully geometric logo we developed for educational board game Equity. The logotype is a carefully considered modular tool box and first glimpse into what will be the starting point for a flexible identity system. The game's prototypes are currently already in advanced test-playing and fine-tuning stages. More info on our new project page.
February 23rd, 2023
Update for Tomi's recent design residency at ECV Lille – Creative Schools & Community, France.
Without further ado we finally posted a second documentation this week – rather image-heavy with work by 24 design students: it's the recent inspirational five-day-masterclass-workshop FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek ran at ECV Lille.
___ Tomi's evolving workshop Personal Projects and the Power of Three 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.
___ Previous workshops, lectures and jury activities at ECV Lille / Bordeaux / Aix-en-Provence, France. [EDU+]
February 22nd, 2023
We finally posted a documentation today of the one night only exhibition that took place a couple of months ago to launch the Love-themed publication Fedrigoni 365 (2023). The calendar and design compendium once again includes a contribution by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek. The event was a private view that took place in London's Hoxton Arches. You can see the 2018–2023 FL@33 designs for Fedrigoni here.
December 9th, 2022
Save the date! We had so much fun last summer that we do it again – we will be out there in the wild once more... Please come and visit our Stereohype / FL@33 stand at the Illustrators' Winter Fair on Saturday, 10 December 2022, 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.
December 7th, 2022
We are playing catch-up after the pandemic chaos and skipping two years of Fedrigoni 365 exhibitions. Later this evening will be the second launch exhibition this year – this time for next year's Love-themed Fedrigoni 365 – calendar 2023 and design compendium. As in all previous years this edition also includes a contribution by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek. It's a private view event but we will as always post pictures at flat33.com after the exhibition here in London.
See previous FL@33 contributions here.
December 3rd, 2022
FL@33's annual design initiative B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Button Badge Series just went into its 22nd round and was released by the studio's graphic art label Stereohype. New button badges, artist sets of four and seven in elegant matchbox-style gift boxes were launched. Many of these new designs were also released as Fine Art Prints for the now 500-strong Button Badge Motif Print edition.
___ The FL@33-curated series additions feature Alex Camacho, Atelier Works, Laurie Rosenwald, Marc Atkins, Rob Sanders and Stupendous.
___ B.I.O. Series 22 features 24 new 1"/25mm button badges including FL@33's seven All You Need... badges. Now available at stereohype.com as part of their growing and already 1777-strong button badge collection by 600+ hand-picked talents from around the world. Please also check out the other annual FL@33 initiative – Stereohype's 18th annual Button Badge Design Competition – winners have just been released, too.
December 2nd, 2022
FThe winners and shortlist of Stereohype's 17th annual Button Badge Design Competition (STBBDC) were just released. FL@33 has once again been part of the over 25-strong judging panel. Huge interest in the design competition run by FL@33's graphic art label and sister-company Stereohype resulted in 458 accepted submissions this year. Congratulations to all involved! The call for entries 2023 is due to be launched in spring. See the stats, winners and runners-up at stereohype.com.
December 1st, 2022
All You Need... is our latest contribution to Stereohype's FL@33-curated B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Button Badge Series 22 that added 24 designs by hand-picked talents to the now 1777-strong collection. FL@33 also contributes to these releases every year.
