Collaboration — Calendar 2021 type contribution

For a forth year running FL@33 contributed a typographic interpretation to a calendar and design compendium by Italian paper company Fedrigoni. It's our fifth contribution in total. The latest project page is now live.

See our Fedrigoni 365 (2021) contribution project page here and previous four FL@33 designs for Fedrigoni here.

Design Residencies
across the ECV France network, FL@33 lectures, Diploma Jury duty and FL@33 masterclass workshops in person and now also online

FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek has been collaborating with ECV France since 2016. FL@33 masterclass workshops for year 4 and 5 graphic design students and occasionally also for groups from year 2 and 3. So far these inspirational one-week-long workshops took place at ECV Lille and ECV Bordeaux and every other year we add a FL@33 lecture to the mix.

Tomi has also been invited to become part of the international ECV Diploma presentation jury and the most recent invitation brought him to ECV Aix-en-Provence for the first time. Last year – before the UK lockdown – Tomi visited ECV Lille and ECV Bordeaux for workshops and lecture.

Earlier this year we ran a very first online masterclass workshop with ECV Lille students.

See workshop documentations at flat33.com.

Save the squirrel, save the world!

It is done. At last. The Stereohype squirrel has been saved. As a strange summer 2020 project in the even more bizarre year 2020, we took it upon ourselves to #SaveTheStereohypeSquirrel, rescue the collapsed cardboard polygon sculpture FL@33 originally designed and built as a 10th anniversary 3D mascot squirrel back in 2014, and revive it again in 2020 thanks to skilful (and lucky) first-time fibreglass epoxy resin experiments. We worked for a full month to resurrect the squirrel and transform it into a waterproof, outdoor sculpture with vibrant fluorescent colours to boot. It has now found a new home away from London town in a calm forest in rural France. Save the squirrel, save the world.

See the complete documentation here.

Royal College of Art Alumni met online via Zoom in support of fresh graduates – the video was recently made available for all

Now available to watch: The video recording of Royal College of Art (RCA) Zoom Webinar .A (point A) Graphic Reflections.

The curated live-streamed video conference with selected Royal College of Art Alumni was organised in support of RCA 2020 graduates – and is now also available for all. Introductions by: Richard Doust and Lol Sargent. Host: Michele Jannuzzi. Alumni: Mark Bonner, Michele Jannuzzi, Chrissy Levett, Hazel Macmillan, Morag Myerscough, Amelia Noble, Sophie Thomas and FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek.

Watch the interesting panel discussion here.

Deluxe gift boxes for FL@33-curated print range

Just released — FL@33-designed deluxe gift boxes for Button Badge Motif Print sets. This is the latest addition to the luxury gift box range for Stereohype – the studio's sister-company – graphic art label and online boutique.

Customers who purchase a set of Stereohype's 8x10" fine art prints will get a free gift box with their order – while stock lasts. Individual print boxes will also be available to purchase separately.

9 FL@33-designed logos in this revised extended book – including some so new they weren't even launched yet officially (thanks stupid virus)!

Our Press archive section now also includes the revised edition of the logo design bible Logo: The reference guide to symbols and logotypes by Michael Evamy.

The new book features nine FL@33-designed logos including more recent designs such as our work for Location 68.

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A slightly abstract personal monogram for a young Renaissance man and global citizen with a bright future ahead of him. Featuring the initials CJV, the minimal FL@33-designed logo was printed on multi-layered deluxe business cards.

We posted a few pictures here.

Sold! To private collector in Germany.

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 just before last year's UK lockdown. Our La Bodeguita del Medio-inspired bottle is now in the permanent Arno Schwarz collection.

We updated the project page with additional pictures.

Modern Heraldry: Vol 2 (and 1)

We are over the moon that the FL@33-designed Stereohype certification seal – that is embossed in Button Badge Motif Prints – is one of two designs featured in the new book Modern Heraldry: Vol. 2 by Counter-Print. The second design is a family crest we redesigned but can't talk about it yet as it wasn't officially launched because of the pandemic...

Volume 1 was also reprinted at this occasion and also features two FL@33 creations.

FL@33-curated B.I.O. Series 20

FL@33's annual design initiative B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Button Badge Series just went into its 20th round and was released by FL@33's graphic art label Stereohype. Button badges, new advent calendars, new sets of four in matchbox-style gift boxes and artist/themed gift boxes of seven were launched. Many of the designs were also released as Fine Art Prints for the now 469-strong Button Badge Motif Print edition.

FL@33 invited Anis Tabaraee, Augustin Camus, Daniele De Batté at Artiva Design, Erik Haberfeld, Nicki Frech and Michele Jannuzzi at Jannuzzi Smith, Jens Uwe Meyer aka JUM at USOTA (United States Of The Art), Michael Czerwinski at Tucktite, Paul Farrington, Timothy O'Donnell and TM.

B.I.O. Series 20 features 44 badges including FL@33's Air Lines artworks.

Latest FL@33 contributions for Stereohype

Our latest contributions to Stereohype's FL@33-curated B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Button Badge Series 20 that added 44 designs to the now 1613-strong collection. The designs were also applied to the more recently introduced Button Badge Motif Print edition that now features over 460 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 contributed seven airport-related photographs to reflect the strange times our movement and travel is restricted.

Remember that view from the penthouse towards the Shard? This 8min 20sec artwork was created with footage looking down.

8min 20sec update: Not so far from Tate Modern – an exceptional view from a penthouse in London's Southwark Street that was illustrated by Camille Walala. The 8min 20sec footage was recorded in June 2020 in the midst of the pandemic. It would usually be much busier at this location. The sequence print was created in the last few days. We now completed our updates and added new and remastered super-high-resolution sequence prints including Southwark Street sequence – all now available at stereohype.com.