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Newsletter October 2024 /// FL@33 News / Design Teaching / New Work
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.
What can we create together?
FL@33
UK Headquarters
The studio's HQ is officially registered in Lincoln, United Kingdom. Happy to meet virtually or travel for any business meetings.
Tomi Vollauschek
MA (RCA)
FL@33 is led by Co-founder and Creative Director Tomi Vollauschek, who is now based in Lyon, working with international clients and French Design Colleges.
FL@33
EU
For all worldwide enquiries please get in touch with Tomi in Lyon at tomi@flat33.com
+44 (0)7801 950 195
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Section 1: New Work
Section 2: Design Teaching teaser
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Section 1: New Work
Crafted with expertise and passion, our visual identities and logo designs come to life through dynamic, often animated assets, ensuring that every detail resonates with exceptional quality.
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Kids Love Photography
New identity system with playful logo for long-time collaborator Jan von Holleben and his latest adventure: Kids Love Photography—a new imprint focusing on lovely photography books for children.
Logo system / variants / animation / social media assets
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Equity—Logo, Variants, Assets and Identity
FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek collaborates with the start-up Equity—The Board Game—on all key aspects of visual communication for its evolving identity system.
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Equity—Logo animation
Tomi contributes to the design and product development of Equity's educational board game, which quickly evolved to become a workshop with the mission statement: 'Fostering Responsible Finance'. To date, we have created a bespoke logotype, variants, social media assets, a logo animation, and the board game design itself.
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Equity—Educational Board Game Design
A very much evolved, potentially final design with variations of the centre part still being considered—latest iterations of the Equity board game itself—prototype #5 designs.
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1961—Vive la Nouvelle Vague !
New logo, film posters, visual identity and social media campaign by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek for the French short film 1961—a cinematic homage to Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave.
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Monogram Logo (revised edition),
Vol. 2
Out now: The new Counter-Print book features work by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek: The 10th anniversary edition with an exquisite collection of monogram logos from around the world, includes our Penrhyn Books logo—another labour of love that involved designing and typesetting an entire book series of five, Penrhyn Books' new identity with website etc. /// Thanks for the pic Counter-Print! 8)
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Experimental typography, new merch and Stereohype button badges
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Fedrigoni 365/366,
2017–2024
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. This top-quality collaborative project has already raised over £30,000 for selected charities.
See all contributions 2017–2024 / calendars and launch exhibitions
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CJV Merch
Product development for CJV featuring the strikingly minimal and slightly abstract personal monogram that FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek developed. The logo already graces cinema screens, business cards, leather cases and cufflinks.
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All you need... Stereohype badges
Tomi's latest contribution to Stereohype's B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) Button Badge Series. The FL@33-curated button badge collection features
over 650 hand-picked talents from around the world and currently includes 1777 designs. FL@33 also contributes to these releases every year.
Available at stereohype.com
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Once again: FL@33 work on TV
Jolly Good on BBC
Tomi Vollauschek's Jolly Good button badge appeared, to our amazement, numerous times on the BBC's TV show Great British Sewing Bee (Series 9), thanks to finalist Tony R., who pinned it to his hat. We have since supplied him with a few spares, as you can imagine—and we follow each other keenly on Instagram. He purchased his original Jolly Good badge at the Saatchi Gallery Store—one of the London stockists of Tomi's sister company, Stereohype. Another thing that still needs to be added to the flat33.com archive. There are lots of screenshots... For more pictures and a link to Tony R., please visit and browse instagram.com/stereohype. The badge is available at stereohype.com and there is even a print version (flat33.com project page).
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Section 2: Design Teaching
Education whirlwind
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I Love Design Teaching
(on site and remotely)
Visit Tomi's new international Design Teaching overview at flat33.com/edu
I love Design Teaching
Tomi's Design Teaching—a newly compiled overview https://www.flat33.com/edu
Based on a recent LinkedIn post by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek (updated for this newsletter):
I love Design Teaching /// While I am still very flexible and available for additional workshops and more English-language roles in design teaching—remotely or on-site—I am thrilled to announce that after having been appointed to teach Visual Identity at ECV Lille, École de création visuelle, last year, I was recently also appointed to be Visiting Lecturer [intervenant] for Culture Graphique there. This started online and remotely in September.
I will also tutor Master design students with their final year projects in 2024/2025.
And—just confirmed: I am excited to reveal today that I will be back at ECV's Aix-en-Provence branch later this month for a week to run a newly developed English-language Editorial Design Masterclass workshop.
Another week-long design residency at ECV Lille in February 2025 will be a new great opportunity to run 'Personal Projects and The Power of Three'—my inspirational Masterclass workshops I developed and fine-tuned since 2016.
My ongoing engagement with this French design college for visual communication started many years ago, and since then I have given many talks and run numerous workshops at the bachelor and mostly master level in Lille, Bordeaux, and Aix-en-Provence. Additionally, I have also repeatedly been invited to be part of ECV's diploma jury in Lille and Aix-en-Provence, where I most recently served as jury president last summer.
Please do get in touch if you would like to discuss how we could work together.
Updated documentation /// New direct link to an overview of Tomi Vollauschek's Design Teaching since 2013 in Europe and the USA: https://www.flat33.com/edu Masterclass Workshops / Courses / Jury Duty and College Lectures.
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Design Teaching focus
The new Design Teaching features collaborations with international Art & Design Colleges including Tomi's Masterclass workshops, courses, jury duty and college lectures.
A selection from flat33.com's comprehensive
Exhibitions etc page have now been tagged to highlight some of Tomi's Design Teaching documentations. Newly tagged with [EDU+] these can now be seen together—ideally in a desktop browser.
ECV, h_da, RCA, MICA, ARU, DMJX, UoG, ...
https://www.flat33.com/edu
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ECV Lille Masterclass workshop
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.
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ECV Lille Masterclass workshop
Design Teaching | Rather image-heavy with work by 24 design students: A super-successful inspirational five-day-masterclass-workshop FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek ran at ECV Lille.
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Visiting Lecturer:
Visual Identity
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)
See documentation
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ECV Aix-en-Provence Masterclass workshop
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.
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UoG @ FL@33
Studio Visit
(still in London)
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.
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ECV Aix Diploma Jury Presidency
Design Teaching | Yours truly—Monsieur le President in all-white for once, and gang. ECV Aix-en-Provence jury presidency—the documentation
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ECV Aix-en-Provence, Graduation Ceremony
Design Teaching | Earlier this year it was 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.
See documentation
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Cambridge College of Art /
Type Talks Series: Tomi Vollauschek
Design Teaching | Tomi Vollauschek hopped on a train from London to Cambridge 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.
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In this newsletter:
New logo designs, Board Game Design, Workshops, Visiting Lecturer and Diploma Jury activities, a Badge on BBC Television, type experiments, books and merch and links to project pages and documentations.
Direct links:
Design Teaching focus—Visiting Lecturer for Visual Identity,
Culture Graphique,
Master Tutoring, Masterclass workshops—Personal Project and The Power of Three,
Editorial Design Masterclass,
Diploma Jury Presidency,
Cambridge type talk,
Studio visits,
Kids Love Photography logo, animation and social media assets,
