http://www.flat33.com FL@33 [v2] Agathe Jacquillat MA (RCA) Tomi Vollauschek MA (RCA) NEW ADDRESS: FL@33 Ltd 59 Britton Street London EC1 5UU T+F +44(0)20 7168 7990 <-- EVEN NEWER!!! M +44 (0)7801 950 195 E    contact@flat33.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FL@33 multi-disciplinary design studio for visual communication presskit.pdf [06.2005, text only, with complete bibliography] about us FL@33 is a multi-lingual and multi-specialised studio for visual communication based in London. Founders Agathe Jacquillat [French from Paris; Academy Julian, ESAG] and Tomi Vollauschek [Austrian, originally from Frankfurt; FH Darmstadt] met on the Royal College of Art's [RCA] postgraduate Communication Art and Design course in 1999 and set up their company in Notting Hill after graduating in July 2001. The studio is working across all media in the areas Concept Generation, Print, Screenbased Work [Broadcast, Motion Graphics, Interface Design, Websites], Exhibition Design and Publishing. FL@33s’ mission is to create a professional, vibrant, fresh and artistic body of work while keeping a balance between commissioned and self-initiated projects and publications. FL@33s’ work philosophy is based on the 'Power of 3' theory - the balance of intellect, skill and emotion. FL@33 projects have been extensively featured online and were published in numerous magazines, newspapers and books around the world. April 2005 saw the studio move across town to a much larger space in Central London, Clerkenwell. To mark this new era a FL@33 monograph was published in May 2005 as part of the highly collectable 'design & designer' book series by french Pyramyd Editions. International clients are from Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the USA and include MTV Networks / VH1 European, Laurence King Publishing, Creative Review, Royal Festival Hall, Sacla, BBC, Matelsom, Alsop Architects / Valencia Biennale 2003, GraficEurope conference 2004 / RotoVision, Pyramyd Editions, The Creator Studio / Torraspapel, Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, BlackBook magazine and Groupe Galeries Lafayette, besides others. Award-winning projects include: Architecture, Art and Design publication 'trans-form, trans-it, trans-port.org', 'Pencil Sculpture Illustration Series' Creative Review cover 11.2002, eye and butterfly pencil sculptures], FL@33s' amusing sound-collection bzzzpeek.com, AAT - animated, acoustic typefaces and animation 'singing pasta' or 'eat and be eaten'. In October 2004 FL@33 launched stereohype.com, graphic art and fashion boutique. Stereohype.com is an online boutique offering limited editions and rare products. The stereohype range is focusing on fresh, innovative and inspirational works and expands regularly. Products include exclusively commissioned artworks for stereohype. Stereohype.com is a platform for designers and artists around the world. Regular competitions give emerging and established artists, illustrators and designers the chance to promote their talent and to get their artworks produced and featured. This activity ensures frequent updates and guarantees that the stereohype range stays appealing to its critical and demanding customers. Competitions and exhibitions are announced via our website, mailing list, international magazines and link portals. Press please find articles, profiles and interviews in our press area. For a complete list of publications please click here or download our presskit.pdf. Judging panels FlashInTheCan 2004 Agathe Jacquillat, March 2004 YCN Design & Communication Awards 2004 Agathe Jacquillat, Tomi Vollauschek, August 2004 Stereohype button badge design competition 2004 Agathe Jacquillat, Tomi Vollauschek, December 2004 Please note: FL@33 is written in uppercase only - without spaces before or after '@'. FL@33 is pronounced like 'flat33'. 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In the last couple of weeks or so we gradually added lots and lots of projects, exhibitions, publications, articles and interviews for your viewing, listening and reading pleasure. It's all done now - so please feel free to have a look around. There's lots to explore! 8) June 9th, 2006 Now at the newsstand: 'computer arts' mag 124 featuring a 6-page FL@33 profile [computerarts.co.uk] If you are at it you might also want to get your hands on another computer arts publication as this month's 'computer arts project 85' mag is featuring a commissioned FL@33 lead illustration. June 8th, 2006 Our design initiative B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) button badge series over at stereohype.com is going in its 4th round. Series 4 includes artworks by: supermundane, peskimo, geneviève gauckler, antoine + manuel, anthony burrill, jon burgerman, mark adams, kerry roper, lunartik, hellohikomori, tabas and we did of course create some more FL@33 badges too. May 23rd, 2006 The exhibition 'spoken with eyes - glimpses of post dot graphic design' [adac.org/spoken] curated by the sacramento art directors and artists club is now open to the public until 30 june 2006 and features work by FL@33, kyle cooper, andrea tinnes, christian küsters, stefan sagmeister, tobias frere-jones, ryan mcginness and many others. May 18th, 2006 Just got our hands on a copy of this month's special issue of creative review which features four of our fifteen illustrations for foe in their showcase charities and not-for-profit organisations. Also out now and soon hitting european shelves is the current issue of japanese magazine +81 [vol.32, 5/10 release: graphics the world over] which features a 6-page FL@33 interview and profile. see previews May 10th, 2006 We are still waiting for a few 'green lights' to show some of our more recent projects including an illustration series for friends of the earth we mentioned earlier but in the meantime there are lots of new updates to our comprehensive work and press archives here at flat33.com. Updates include: blad & previews of the forthcoming lkp book 300% cotton - more t-shirt graphics, gig programmes for the recent friends of the earth benefit concert with radiohead 'the big ask live', a chocolote bunny, a custom adidas qee for the adicolor launch exhibition, little stitched creatures for the last rca secret exhibition, another mattress website and lots of added footage to read, download and listen to in our press section. Updates are still in progress and will hopefully be finalised by the end of may. There are many more exhibition snapshots and so forth to be added... April 28th, 2006 Great news: the long-awaited laurence king book of badges 'badges / pins / buttons' by gavin lucas and nathan gale finally got its go-ahead. The book will have a dedicated stereohype section featuring our lovely collection we are putting together since 2004. There is a new CALL FOR ENTRIES up at stereohype.com if you would like to submit your badge related projects. Deadline is the 12th of may. We are now officially news editors over at the always amazing bi-lingual portal frenchnfresh.com. April 27th, 2006 The new victionary book graphics alive was published and includes our entire stereohype clothing range and some of our B.I.O. series button badges. Just got our copy the other day. Nice! We have also recently finished lots of new work for friends of the earth including posters, brochure/postcards and the gig programmes for the fund raising concert on monday featuring radiohead (see you there!). What else? We designed a Toy2r custom bunny called 'yummy bunny' covered in chocolate - now that was fun. - although when it arrived in hong kong the toy2r founder apparently got his fingers dirty with our chocolate design... A postcard book featuring our bunny is currently being produced by him though... 8) The 300% cotton blad (book layout and design, preview brochure for foreign publishers) is apparently finished and we should get our copies next week. Previews will then be added to our update of course. We have also finished the blad for another forthcoming laurence king book we mentioned earlier: 'contemporary patterns'. Plenty of updates are currently being prepared left and right including lots of FL@33 publications and exhibitions going back to - believe it or not - last year... Don't say it - we know: if we would have had time to update more regularly we wouldn't have to do this monster task at once... We're getting there though - promised! We prepared about 400 jpgs for flat33.com the other day... 8) That should get us started. We are currently slightly distracted by a great illustration commission for computer arts project which is nearly finished (and we are really happy about) and are also currently wrapping up the forthcoming B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 4 including works by supermundane, peskimo, geneviève gauckler, antoine + manuel, anthony burrill, jon burgerman, mark adams, kerry roper, lunartik, hellohikomori, tabas and of course FL@33. Oh - and we are working on a re-vamp of stereohype.com. It's growing... 8) March 20th, 2006 Well - it's time for a quick update: projects: We are currently waiting for the official 'go-ahead' from some of our clients to post some of our recently finished projects here at flat33.com including a really nice illustration series for friends of the earth and of course: the forthcoming 300% cotton book and more... exhibition: FL@33 was invited by the sakramento art directors and artists club [adac] to present a whole range of our works in a forthcoming exhibition entitled 'spoken with eyes - glimpses of postdot graphic design' at the design museum, sakramento, usa, from may - june 2006. press: There are plenty of new additions to our press | coming soon area - lots of books and a few FL@33 profiles and interviews. Some exclusive new FL@33 works will be posted as soon as the according publications are released. March 1st, 2006 The march issue of graphic design magazine novum - world of graphic design is currently featuring an interview with FL@33 as part of this month's 'education' special. February 2nd, 2006 We are now finally able to offer you our recently released FL@33 book over at our graphic art and fashon boutique stereohype.com. Signed FL@33 books are available separately and together with one of the remaining copies of our trans-form magazine as signed bundle offer. February 1st, 2006 We are currently working on a series of exciting projects including two books we mentioned earlier: forthcoming laurence king publications '300% cotton - more t-shirt graphics' by helen walters and a book entitled 'contemporary patterns' by dru cole. Previews of these two projects and many more will be posted very soon. You can see our work for 200% cotton in the meantime... January 28th, 2006 FL@33 was invited by hong kong-based toy2r to customize an 8" adidas qee for the adidas adicolor launch exhibition 'adicolor studio' at bread & butter trade fair, berlin, 28-29 january 2006. Snapshots of the exhibition and our custom toy will be posted very soon. January 16th, 2006 now at the newsstand: The winter issue of eye magazine (58) is now available and mentions FL@33 (featuring our stereohype squirrel illustration) in the feature article 'The decriminalisation of ornament' by alice twemlow. Read the editorial here. Also available is the current issue of grafik magazine [issue 136] with a few words by FL@33's tomi vollauschek in the 'viewpoint' section (see below). This months topic: '2005 - how was it for you?' "2005 was truly magical. First of all my cute little son was born this year and I learnt soooo many new things besides changing nappies... And as if this wouldn't be enough for one year we have also finally moved to our much larger space in Clerkenwell, our new headquarters. Our sister company, Stereohype.com, celebrated its first anniversary and also continues to grow. Our very first 3D toy, the Mr Papillon Qee keychain, was produced in Hong Kong and the FL@33 monograph, design&designer 33, was published by Pyramyd Editions in Paris — a really good thing to get projects from the first four years of FL@33 out of our system, clear our minds and move on. All in all, plenty of things which really inspired me on a personal and professional level. FL@33, Stereohype, my family and I very much look forward to yet another refreshing year ahead." January 9th, 2006 We wish you a happy, healthy and creative 2006! *** +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ news news news news news news news news news news news news 2005 December 17th, 2005 ********************** We wish you a merry xmas and a happy, healthy and creative 2006! •<(:-) December 16th, 2005 Our button badge design initiatives B.I.O. (by invitation only) series and our annual design competitions over at stereohype.com made it possible to add over 180 fantastic button badges to our growing collection. Since stereohype's launch in october 2004 we invited numerous emerging and established artists, illustrators, designers and studios from around the world to collaborate with us. Thanks again to everybody for getting involved! 8) December 15th, 2005 The winter issue of eye magazine (58) is now available and mentions FL@33 (featuring our stereohype postcard motif) as part of the article 'The decriminalisation of ornament' by alice twemlow. Read the editorial here. December 9th, 2005 FL@33 is currently designing the forthcoming book contemporary patterns by dru cole to be published in 2006 by laurence king publishing in the uk and by other publishers worldwide. There is an open CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (Please click for guidelines). Deadline to send in your pattern designs is: 12 January 2006. Thanks! 8) December 8th, 2005 You can now finally buy our book design & designer 33 - FL@33 online - directly from us over at stereohype.com. It's signed and comes with a handful of FL@33 and stereohype postcards. Alternatively you can now also get your hands on a signed FL@33 bundle (book plus trans-form magazine). Launch stereohype.com We are currently working on lots of interesting FL@33 projects including two books for laurence king publishing. There is also lots of press in the pipeline. Please see our press section for recently published and forthcoming titles. The most recent snapshots, descriptions and interviews will be added in the new year. November 9th, 2005 The second 1" (25mm) button badge design competition is now accepting submissions over at stereohype.com. Deadline to create and submit lovely, humorous and/or witty artworks for those cute little mobile canvases is the 2nd december 2005. October 25th, 2005 happy birthday stereohype! 8) October 24th, 2005 The online project bzzzpeek.com has been updated and now also includes complete sets of sound submissions from colombia, india, usa and also additional mice sounds from the uk and spain. 20 countries are now represented! Submissions are welcome! launch here October 3rd, 2005 We received our copy today of the newest ava book from the highly recommended 'basics:' series. We've already been featured twice in format - the launch issue - a while ago and 'image' - the equally interesting fourth book in this series - is now presenting a whopping 6 FL@33 projects! Soon in your favourite bookstore... 8) October 1st, 2005 Lots of fresh updates here at flat33.com! We added pictures of the brandnew stereohype clothing range 2005-06 (including the bzzzpeek.com support tees), a few snapshots of the stereohype stand @ top drawer 05, previews of the forthcoming 'hooked?' monster t-shirts and an illustration for victionary featuring a recent FL@33 wall painting/room decoration. Last but not least we can finally show pictures of the woyzeck campaign commissioned by the young vic theatre, london. Woyzeck is a very exciting project indeed as it involves a must-see theatre play (directed by gísli örn gardarsson) to be performed at the barbican as part of this month's bite:05 series 'young genius'. "Iceland's vesturport use hair-raising, high spectacle, circus skills to electrifying effect." Half-way through the project nick cave and warren ellis (a bad seed) signed up and produced original music for this spectacle! We were briefed to illustrate the story of georg büchner's woyzeck with a twist of gísli... But everything came together when we heard who would write the music for this dark play as everybody involved was thinking nick cave/kylie 'where the wild roses grow' anyway... 8) September 30th, 2005 Now at the newsstand: current november issue of computer arts magazine is featuring FL@33, bzzzpeek.com and stereohype.com as part of the feature article 'expose yourself'. Also out now: lads magazine front got in touch with us and is now presenting our paris telescope t-shirt in an article on 50 must-have autumn t-shirts (please don't get distracted though by all the nudity surrounding the t-shirt article). We mentioned this one before but it's still the latest issue: IdN magazine [v12n3] includes a FL@33/stereohype article as part of their 'pick of the month'. September 18th, 2005 You can now support our bzzzpeek.com project by wearing one of our high-quality, organic, non-bleached sweatshop-free, aa animal sound T's. You can choose between cocorico, wang wang and quack quack - all available for women, kids and men. This new T-shirt series is designed to help finance this hugely popular project and pay towards the out-of-control server costs generated by up to 15.000 unique visitors per day (usually approx. 2.000 unique visitors/day) generating up to 6 gigabyte every single day! Thank you! September 17th, 2005 We designed the new Stereohype clothing range 2005/06 which was launched at the Stereohype stand at last week's Top Drawer Autumn Fair, London, Olympia. The new range features more squirrels, 3D-viewers, rabbits and rainbows, roosters, dogs and ducks is now available online over at stereohype.com August 30th, 2005 Well - holidays are over and we have plenty of exciting new projects in the pipeline. Our new stereohype.com t-shirt collection 2005/06 will be launched in a couple of weeks at the top drawer autumn fair here in london. All those designs and other projects we recently finished or are currently finalizing will be featured very soon here at flat33.com. By the way - we just spotted a handful of copies of our FL@33 book @ magma, clerkenwell, one of our favourite bookshops. The book is not listed on their website [yet?] but if you are in the area you can now simply pop in and secure your copy... 8) OUT NOW: ***digit magazine [issue 91] featuring our stereohype design initiative 'B.I.O. [by invitation only] button badge series 1 and 2' on a nice double page spread showing over 100 fantastic 1" [25mm] artworks by artists, designers and illustrators from around the world ***IdN magazine [v12n3] will hit the shelves in a few days and also includes a FL@33/stereohype article. July 26th, 2005 UK residents can now also buy the FL@33 book 'design & designer 033 - FL@33' online directly at London-based Art Data - the UK distributor of Pyramyd Edition's 'design & designer' monograph series. It's not an online shop but they kindly agreed to sell single books to individuals. Here are the two Art Data links you will need to get in touch with them and order a copy: book details [their catalogue number, etc...] you will need the book details for their order form. They will then get in touch with you to arrange payment. Thanks! 8) list of french and canadian online shops July 20th, 2005 50 limited edition mr papillon 2" kit cat qee keychain sets from toy2r's design-a-qee uk series are now available at stereohype.com. Closed blind box signed by FL@33. Set includes postcards, limited edition badge and stickers. July 12th, 2005 The waiting is over! Our 2"/5cm toy2r toy mr papillon arrived! The magic box from hong kong arrived a few days ago and contains a whole army of FL@33 keychain toys. A limited edition of signed FL@33 qees (plus surprise goodies) will very soon be available over at stereohype.com. Subscribers to our FL@33 or stereohype newsletter will have a chance to buy one Mr.Papillon bundle before they are made available to the general public. July 11th, 2005 Just spotted our first FL@33 book review in this month's grafik magazine. (...) "..., this is a perfectly formed volume showcasing the intriguing work of London-based Franco-Austrian duo Agathe and Tomi, aka FL@33. Its diminutive size means that the emphasis is on imagery rather than text, so copy is pretty much restricted to the captions and a preface by Liz Brown. It doesn't really matter too much, though, as the work is consistently engaging and presented in a fresh and appealing way. It's a great snapshot of what they've achieved so far and bodes well for FL@33's future." (...). A big THANK YOU to everybody @ grafik tower! 8) July 4th, 2005 We have recently been commissioned by the young vic theatre company to create a visual for georg büchner's woyzeck. The play, directed by gísli örn gardarsson, will be performed later this year by vesturport theatre at bite:05, barbican as part of the 'young genius' season. The visual is currently being used for the barbican brochure and online promotion. A poster and postcards will soon be added. We'll post previews at flat33.com once everything is ready. June 13th, 2005 This month's issue of german mag 'page' includes a nice stereohype.com mention featuring the button badges from B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 2. June 9th, 2005 Our amusing yet educational online project bzzzpeek.com is currently enjoying a new wave of popularity after the new york times (free registration required) featured a 1/4 page article on our project two days ago. Wired.com and many other websites quickly added the link and we even had to pop into the bbc bush house a couple of times to record radio interviews. Our server is smoking as the daily average of unique visitors to bzzzpeek.com is currently up to approx. 10.000 and rising (up from approx. 2.000). Hopefully we will receive plenty of sound submissions to add all the missing languages to this evolving collection. Links to radio streams will soon be posted at flat33.com. Thanks so much for all the encouraging emails we are receiving! June 2nd, 2005 After we added our FL@33 book and the veggie video in the last days we have now even more for you: a robot, badges, boats and a bridge, flying roofs with weird letters, forests,  lines and pigeons, snowboards and toys with masks. Also new: previews of recently published experimental formats 2, bellali fanzine and idpure special edition 2005 with FL@33 profile (8 pages). Hope you like this decent (and overdue) update! 8) June 1st, 2005 Just posted stills and quicktime movie of our latest motion graphics piece cut 'n' paste remix by FL@33 for the forthcoming sacla exhibition in paris which is part of the french 'l'arte di sacla' campaign. May 31st, 2005 Good news! FL@33 start to settle down in the new office space in london, clerkenwell! We are now finally ready to add lots of new projects to flat33.com we have been working on over the last months. Including motion graphics for the forthcoming l'arte di sacla exhibition in paris, a robot illustration for LaSer @ groupe galeries lafayette, snowboard designs, button badges, self-initiated experiments and a visual/poster for the young vic (young genius, bite:05 @ barbican), besides others. Plenty of publications will also be added within the next couple of days. In the meantime please do have a look at some previews of our most exciting publication yet - our brandnew book design & designer 033_FL@33 which has just been published in paris by pyramyd editions. April 27th, 2005 We have news from our publisher: The FL@33 book entitled 'design & designer 033 - FL@33' (120 pages) is now available! It includes our early works, recent ones and a few previously unpublished projects. You can order it now at artdesign.fr (french/english) or at amazon.fr (if you speak french and/or are familiar with the amazon icons) - and who knows? You might have a copy before we do... 8) A preview is posted at pyramyd-editions.com. April 13th, 2005 We finally moved to a larger office space during the weekend - across town to central london, clerkenwell. After nearly 4 years in our first studio it's: Bye bye notting hill - clerkenwell here we come! 8) Our FL@33 book will be out in may to mark this new era. Watch this space for updates. April 7th, 2005 Nice pictures of our forthcoming design-a-qee toy 'mr papillon' (prototype) - currently being produced by hong kong based toy2r arrived at FL@33 today. Signed FL@33 qees of mr papillon will be available via stereohype.com from july. (we'll post pictures soon) See a preview of the entire series in the meantime.. April 6th, 2005 received our copy of the book 'experimental formats 2' which includes two FL@33 projects. snapshots will soon be posted. rotovision.com March 26th, 2005 This month's creative review presents besides others our illustration for the forthcoming book graphic poetry. March 1st, 2005 Brand new swiss graphic design magazine idpure republished two FL@33 artworks of our perfectly symmetrical series in their current march issue. The forthcoming special idpure april edition will include a huge FL@33 profile. idpure is a great bi-lingual (french/english) publication with sexy round corners. February 24th, 2005 STEP inside design: field guide to emerging design talent 2005 is currently featuring a FL@33 profile. February 23rd, 2005 We have been working on the finishing touches of our forthcoming FL@33 book which will be published in may. The introduction of this monograph is written by journalist liz brown who already wrote a FL@33 profile in 2003 for grafik magazine issue 110. watch this space for book updates: design&designer February 22nd, 2005 Previews of the recently exhibited FL@33 illustrations 8min20sec series and shadows and are now finally live at flat33.com. The prints are available over at graphic art and fashion boutique - stereohype.com. February 21st, 2005 See our FL@33 spread in design in europe 2005 published by pyramyd editions a few of weeks ago. February 3rd, 2005 BIG NEWS! We have recently been commissioned by paris-based pyramyd editions to prepare a book on FL@33 projects. This forthcoming FL@33 monograph will be published later this year as part of the bi-lingual (english/french) design & designer series. We have just finished our work - and guess which edition number we secured... YEP - 33 it is!!! January 21st, 2005 FL@33 has submitted work for a fund-raising book designed to help. The amazing tsunami relief effort was organized in early january by ilovedust in collaboration with DGV. January 19th, 2005 Stereohype.com are collaborating with berlin-based 'best shop' who will present and offer the FL@33 t-shirt range at the international 'tradeshow for striking brands' bread & butter, 21 - 23 jan. 2005. In case you're in berlin at the time: their huge stand is located in the main entrance area... January 17th, 2005 The FL@33 vs stereohype exhibition in paris is now closed. A big THANK YOU to all our supporters!!! 8) January 10th, 2005 The FL@33 sound experience bzzzpeek.com has been chosen to be part of the 'best of the year 2004' website list over at netdiver.net! Thanks so much! 8) January 6th, 2005 Our website stereohype.com - graphic art and fashion boutique made it into this month's Top 10 of howdesign.com January 5th, 2005 Last chance to visit the FL@33 vs stereohype exhibition in paris entitled '8min20sec' by FL@33 and 'collection 2004-05' by stereohype.com. Open until jan. 14th! read exhibition details and see photos January 4th, 2005 out this month: wad magazine: FL@33 artwork in 'scale' issue, paris step magazine: field guide to emerging design talent 2005, usa design in europe 2005: pyramyd editions, paris January 3rd, 2005 WE WISH YOU AN INSPIRING 2005! *** +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ news news news news news news news news news news news news 2004 2004 December 23rd, 2004 we wish you a cosy christmas & a fantastic new year! •<(:-) December 11th, 2004 we have added an illustration we made a few months ago after wig-01 invited us to participate at the forthcoming victionary book graphic poetry. December 10th, 2004 we finally found some time to post a few pictures of our current paris exhibition '8min20sec' and stereohype 'collection 2004/05'. We have also updated pictures of the FL@33 clothing line for stereohype.com - graphic art & fashion boutique December 9th, 2004 we have added FL@33 exhibits of two recent postcard exhibitions in london: rca secrets 2004 and a discerning christmas at the notting hill arts club. December 8th, 2004 now at the newsstand: grafik 124 and french fashion magazine numéro 59, both with mentions of current FL@33/stereohype exhibition in paris. December 1st, 2004 our paris exhibition opens its doors until 14 jan 2005. November 25th, 2004 we have added this month's massive 8-page FL@33 profile with FL@33 front cover 'stereohype squirrel' in bi-lingual magazine novum, world of graphic design. November 24th, 2004 updated: FL@33 press area, visual identity and online shop for stereohype.com, pictures from two exhibitions we participated at the graficeurope conference berlin: emerging designers 2004 and public address system. November 23rd, 2004 1" button badge design competition over at stereohype deadline: december 6th! November 16th, 2004 the first book of the new 'basics' series by ava books is out now! basics: format by gavin ambrose and paul harris features our projects trans-form magazine and agatheHD.com. November 9th, 2004 french newspaper libération published an article on FL@33 and bzzzpeek.com  today. November 1st, 2004 we are currently preparing a FL@33 vs stereohype exhibition in paris entitled '8 min 20 sec' by FL@33 and 'collection 2004-05' by stereohype.com - graphic art and fashion boutique. [dec 2004 - jan 2005] exhibition details October 28th, 2004 maximalism is out now! [the graphic design of decadence and excess] with FL@33 pencil sculpture illustration series.  rotovision.com [book details] October 24th, 2004 at midnight we have launched stereohype.com - graphic art and fashion boutique! FL@33 t-shirts and more are now available at stereohype. October 19th, 2004 novum - world of graphic design with massive FL@33 profile and FL@33 front cover 'stereohype squirrel' is out now! novumnet.de October 18th, 2004 just came back from the graficeurope conference in berlin. As soon as time allows we'll post a few snapshots from the exhibitions FL@33 has been part of. October 8th, 2004 the november issue of bi-lingual magazine 'novum - world of graphic design' will feature a FL@33 profile on 8 pages and a modified version of one of our stereohype artworks printed in five colours on their front cover. September 24th, 2004 a FL@33 profile first published in étapes:102 has again been re-published by pyramyd. This time in a book entitled 'étapes: 10 ans/years'. September 23rd, 2004 the forthcoming fashion issue of creative review features an article on 200% cotton - a book designed by FL@33. The article also shows our interpretation for the commissioned '200%' chapter of the book. September 15th, 2004 FL@33 has been nominated to be part of the 'emerging designers 2004' exhibition at the graficeurope conference in berlin next month. We will also be part of the second public address system poster exhibition. September 14th, 2004 the current issue of creative review is featuring a FL@33 illustration with the FL@33 typeface SCSI on 3 pages for an article called in with the new on rick poynor's book communicate: independent british graphic design since the sixties. September 13th, 2004 the current fashion issue of grafik magazine is featuring 3 FL@33 t-shirts for stereohype.com as part of an article entitled 'nice t' offering grafik readers the chance to win a total of 100 t's. August 23rd, 2004 we have added a FL@33 movie commissioned by rotovision for graphic design conference graficeurope. August 6th, 2004 we just received an advance copy of forthcoming laurence king publication 200% cotton - new t-shirt graphics. Book design and cover illustration by FL@33, also featuring FL@33 artworks for forthcoming stereohype.com t-shirt range and commissioned designs for the '200%' chapter. '200% cotton dogs' t-shirts, a collaboration between laurence king publishing and FL@33, are currently being screen-printed and will be available at stereohype.com. August 5th, 2004 the september issue of creative review will feature a commissioned FL@33 illustration. August 4th, 2004 hong-kong based toy2r have recently invited FL@33 to customize 8" knuckle bears for urban/designer toy exhibitions and fairs across asia. August 3rd, 2004 our website design for toicommoi.com is mentioned in current issue of german page magazine. August 2nd, 2004 we have added a recent commission by paris-based groupe galeries lafayette/bhv for their recent annual report. It's an illustration inspired by the aesthetic of our trans-form magazine 'cityscape insects' they saw some time ago and fell in love with. July 1st, 2004 *************************** FL@33 is celebrating its 3rd anniversary! 8) June 28th, 2004 FL@33 has recently been interviewed by liz brown for british newspaper 'the guardian'. The article sowing seeds for success - on five ways to start a business while at university - has been published 2 days ago. June 7th, 2004 FL@33 feature with commissioned artworks [8 pages + front cover] in current 'mirror' issue of barcelona-based 'the creator studio'. The publication is available in spanish, french and english. FREE subscription details June 1st, 2004 FL@33 in VO pixeltown [right next to the lighthouse] May 29th, 2004 e-commerce website [phase 1] for parisian fashion label toi com moi is online May 26th, 2004 just found the japanese version of our 200% cover. 8) May 19th, 2004 BlackBook magazine arrived today from new york. The summer issue features a commissioned flower-hunting illustration and a brief FL@33 profile with portrait. May 17th, 2004 bzzzpeek.com updated! 17th language: italian! May 3rd, 2004 Fantastic news! Our design of  2" kit cat qee 'mr papillon' is 1of 20 winners chosen [from just over a thousand entries] to be produced later this year. We can't wait... Thanks so much guys! 8) May 1st, 2004 We have added previews of forthcoming laurence king publication 200% cotton - new t-shirt graphics. April 30th, 2004 just added a few snapshots from yesterdays private view of the design-a-qee expo 2004 london April 29th, 2004 Private view of design-a-qee expo 2004, london, where our short-listed artwork for a cat qee is exhibited. Open to the public: 1 - 31 may 2004, 6 newburgh street, london w1f (parallel to carnaby st.) April 28th, 2004 creative review mentions our matelsom 'dream' artwork in their may issue, p.41. this months subject: 'the home' April 27th, 2004 The recent FL@33 profile in french graphic design magazine étapes:102 is about to be re-published in english. The launch issue of étapes: international will be available from may. April 26th, 2004 The UseAgain microsite has been launched today. FL@33 has been invited by flink, belgium, to contribute some work for their recycle project. Exhibition and additional information to follow. April 11th, 2004 Our website bzzzpeek.com has been selected for publication in forthcoming 'websites' reference book by berlin-based feierabendverlag. The book will be available world-wide from may. (ISBN 3-89985-050-5) April 2nd, 2004 the creator studio, barcelona, will feature one of their commissioned FL@33 artworks on the front cover of forthcoming 'the mirror' issue. Inside this issue will be an 8-page FL@33 feature. The publication will be sent to approximately 50.000 designers, ad agencies, etc world-wide in june. March 10th, 2004 Gold for bzzzpeek.com in the category online/functional at the construction new media award in association with the 7th design indaba expo. constructionaward.com March 3rd, 2004 We have just finished the book design for forthcoming laurence king publication '200% cotton - new t-shirt graphics' by helen walters. The book - to be published in august - will also feature a FL@33 cover illustration, the FL@33 t-shirt range for stereohype.com and commissioned FL@33 artwork for the '200%' chapter. More information and images will soon be released. March 1st, 2004 FL@33 has been commissioned by 'the creator studio' barcelona, to create 7 pages for forthcoming issue entitled 'the mirror'. A FL@33 profile will complete this series of previously unpublished and brand-new FL@33 work. The issue is due in summer 2004. Artworks will soon be added to our 'work archive' visit creator studio February 27th, 2004 FL@33 has been commissioned by 'black book' magazine, new york, to create illustations for forthcoming summer issue. Artworks will soon be added to our 'work archive' February 19th, 2004 FL@33 are currently developing visual identity and website for company stereohype.com - a new graphic art and fashion boutique - due to launch later this year. February 2nd, 2004 we have just received copies of the new art directors annual no. 82 [adcny | art directors club new york] which features our bzzzpeek.com | distinctive merit award | new media | game, entertainment, p. 226 see details of adc travelling exhibition | see project January 28th, 2004 we just found out that bzzzpeek.com has been selected to be one of the yahoo.com picks of the year 2003 January 26th, 2004 maxi, france - the women lifestyle magazine mentions our family-friendly bzzzpeek project, p. 6 January 22nd, 2004 Our quarterly link update is online! thanks to all our supporters for your bzzzpeek/FL@33 links, mentions and articles! check out our link area: www January 21st, 2004 Two posters have been added to our shop range. Our typographic exhibition poster dalai lama speech and spring #1 January 19th, 2004 public address system (p)reviews: idanda.net, new york and kultureflash.net, london January 15th, 2004 It seems to be french week at FL@33... more news from france: our bzzzpeek.com project has been selected by yahoo.fr to be one of the most popular websites of 2003 in the category: international sites January 14th, 2004 Yet another FL@33 work has been launched in paris this week. This time for furniture supplier meubles.com. meubles.com metro poster campaign 2004 January 12th, 2004 Paris-based matelsom launched their brand-new online and print campaign 2004 today January 8th, 2004 The typographic poster exhibition public address system is now open to the public. FL@33 has contributed a speech by dalai lama. henry peacock gallery, until 15th february 2004. 38a foley street, london W1 7LB, opening times are wed-sat, 12-6pm. list of contributors | see FL@33 poster +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FL@33 | PRESS FL@33 LTD | PRESS COMPLETE | last updated: 9 may 2006 please find complete profiles and interviews at flat33.com > press and a complete PRESSKIT.PDF including exhibitions etc. at flat33.com > about us graphics alive!, by victionary , p.6, pp.95-97, p.162, hong kong, march 2006 novum - world of graphic design, interview: education special, going independent: risk or opportunity?, pp.56-57, munich, march 2006 adidas: adicolor/toy2r diy qee expo catalogue, featuring our qee 'mr set letradidas' with FL@33 profile, p.19, hong kong, jan. 2006 grafik, viewpoint, '2005 - how was it for you?', p.80, london, jan 2006 eye magazine, 58, winter issue, 'the discriminalisation of ornament' by alice twemlow, editorial + p.27, london, winter 2005/06 computer arts, 117, jan issue, featuring some of the stereohype t-shirts of the collection 2005-06, p.87, london, dec 2005 basics: image, by gavin ambrose and paul harris, ava books, p.40, p.51, p.63, pp.122-123, p.130, p.169, london, oct 2005 computer arts, 115, nov issue, expose yourself, FL@33/bzzzpeek.com/stereohype.com, pp.34-40, london, oct 2005 front magazine, issue 88, cotton picking, featuring FL@33/stereohype ‘paris telescope’ t-shirts, pp.120-122, london, oct 2005 digit, issue 91, inspire, ‘pin it down’, stereohype B.I.O. button badge series 1 and 2, pp.32-33, london, sept 2005 IdN, volume 12, number 3, FL@33/stereohype, pick of the month, p.4, hong kong, summer 2005 ideat magazine, # 38, design your life, FL@33/design&designer book reviews, p. 157, july - aug 2005 grafik, issue 130, FL@33 book review: 'design&designer 033 - FL@33', pp.74-75, london, july 2005 page, szene: anstecklust, FL@33/stereohype.com mention B.I.O. button badge series, antje dohmann , p.10, hamburg, july2005 the new york times 07.06.2005, bzzzpeek 'barks are local: meows are global' by sarah boxer, republished worldwide in nyt supplements >>> design & designer 33, FL@33, monograph [bi-lingual: english and french], preface by liz brown, pyramyd editions, paris, may 2005 nico magazine, ‘young international t-shirt designers’ issue, luxembourg, may 2005 clutter magazine, issue 3, design a qee series launch, mr papillon part of cover collage + p11, london, april 2005 and - art and design magazine, FL@33 profile (10 pages), art and design publishing, beijing, china, april 2005 graphic poetry, by wig-01, selection of international authors, designers, typographers and illustrators, victionary, hong kong, april 2005 idpure, FL@33 profile, special edition, morges, switzerland, april 2005 bellali, fanzine, FL@33/stereohype, pavia, italy, march 2005 creative review, april issue, article on ‘graphic poetry’ also featuring the FL@33 artwork 'sky world', london, 2005 experimental formats 2 , by roger fawcett-tang, rotovision, east sussex, uk, march 2005 idpure, two FL@33 artworks of our 'perfectly symmetrical' series on 4 pages, pp.8-11, morges, switzerland, march 2005 design in europe 2005, pyramyd editions, paris, february 2005 step, magazine, field guide to emerging design talent 2005, ones to watch, p. 41 + pp.51-52, usa, jan 2005 wad, magazine, scale issue, S, M, L, XL issue, french + english, playground, paris, pp.118-119 + p.128, dec-jan-feb 2004-05 numéro 59, what’s up?, les découvertes du mois, by nathalie fraser, avoir le temps - FL@33 & stereohype expo; p.96; paris, dec 2004 grafik [formerly graphics international], issue 124; 'roughs', FL@33 & stereohype.com expo in paris; p.7; london, dec 2004 novum - world of graphic design; bi-lingual english, german; FL@33 profile on 8 pages + FL@33 front cover, pp.54-61, nov 2004 basics: format; by gavin ambrose and paul harris; ava books; london, p.48 + p.98, nov 2004 libération 09.11.04, au net - un site à la loupe, 'les animaux se crient en multilangue', by morwenna prigent on bzzzpeek.com , p.27 emerging designers 2004, exhibition catalogue for GraficEurope conference in Berlin, ltd. edition: 1000, october 2004 maximalism; the graphic design of decadence & excess, by charlotte rivers; rotovision; p.142, london, oct 2004 creative review, fashion issue, article on ‘200% cotton’ also showing the FL@33 artwork for ‘200%’ chapter, p. 35, london, oct 2004 grafik [formerly graphics international], issue 121; 'nice t', FL@33 t-shirts for stereohype.com; p.44; london, sep. 2004 eat you friends, magazine, bzzzpeek article in launch issue of eyf mag (a 'sourcebook of inspiration'), toronto, sep. 2004 200% cotton - new t-shirt graphics; laurence king publishing/harpers by helen walters; book design by FL@33; london, aug. 2004 étapes: 10 ans (10 years); FL@33 profile; Duos - 6 raisons d'être 2 (étapes:102); pyramyd; paris, aug. 2004 page; german graphic design magazine; szene, familienuniform [toicommoi.com]; p. 17; hamburg; aug. 2004 the guardian 28.06.04, rise section, sowing seeds for success, five ways to start a business while at university, liz brown, london elle - québec; by christian côté on bzzzpeek.com, montréal, june 2004 websites; feierabend verlag; berlin, featuring bzzzpeek.com, june 2004 the creator studio;commissioned FL@33 work will feature in and outside forthcoming issue 'the mirror'; barcelona, june 2004 étapes: international; FL@33 profile from recent étapes:102 re-published in english; Duos - 6 reasons to be 2; paris, may 2004 blackbook magazine; commissioned FL@33 illustration will feature in forthcoming summer issue ; new york, may 2004 art directors annual no. 82; distinctive merit award for bzzzpeek.com, new media, game/entertainment, p. 226, new york, feb. 2004 maxi - france; women lifestyle magazine mentions our family-friendly bzzzpeek project, p. 6; paris, 26.01-01.02.2004 étapes:102; FL@33 profile; Duos - 6 raisons d'être 2; writers: vanina pinter + étienne hervy; p. 3 + pp. 38-41; paris, nov. 2003 grafik [formerly graphics international], issue 110; consultancy profile FL@33; pp.16-21; london, oct. 2003 romantik; die gestalten verlag; editors: r. klanten, m. mischler, s. ehmann; pp. 96-97; berlin, oct. 2003 paper engineering; rotovision; editor: natalie avella; london; oct. 2003 cyberarts 2003; int. compendium; hatje cantz; german + english; prix ars electronica 2003; honorary mention; linz; oct. 2003 the 2nd valencia biennial: the ideal city, catalogue; edizioni charta srl; valencia; sep. 2003 colossal design; how design books; editor: clare warmke; pp. 120-121; cincinnati, ohio; july 2003 page; german graphic design magazine; feature: matelsom campaign; writer: antje dohmann; pp. 38-40; hamburg; april 2003 graphic 01: location; visual culture magazine; editor: marc a. valli; pp. 114-119; bis publishers; amsterdam; london; april 2003 the creative review annual 2003; features FL@33 in 'influential works: november'; p.80; london; april 2003 timeout new york; tony; issue 383; ones and zeros; bzzzpeek.com mention; new york; jan. 30 - feb. 6, 2003 graphics international; issue 101; viewpoint; london; dec. 2002 creative review; cover artwork by FL@33; also included: FL@33 feature + interview; writer: mark sinclair; p.61; london; nov. 2002 gb: graphic britain; laurence king publishing; features FL@33s' trans-form project; london; nov. 2002 d&ad annual 2002; british design and art direction; 'editorial & book design' + 'illustration'; p.133+255; london; oct. 2002 i.d. magazine; int. design review 2002; graphics; design distinction; p.75; cincinnati, ohio; aug. 2002 0fr magazine; 0fr system'; new art + fashion editions; features FL@33 graphics; pp.54-55; paris; july 2002 sexymachinery; issue 2; how to make money disappear? part 1 + 2; london; winter 2001|02 page; german graphic design magazine; szene; crane-spotting; writer: antje dohmann; p.17; hamburg; jan. 2002 graphics international; issue 91; showcase; p.12; london; dec. 2001 beaux arts; numero 211; noos multimedia competition winners; writer: delphine gaultier; p.28; paris; dec. 2001 flyer; berlin + frankfurt; free city mag; p.13; writer: michael brake; nov. | dec. 2001 étapes:79; french graphic design magazine; images; des grues et des hommes; writer: vanina pinter; p.67; paris; dec 2001 étapes:78; french graphic design magazine; création 72dpi; acoustic pastas; p.12; paris; nov. 2001 :output 4; verlag hermann schmidt; int. yearbook for awarded works of graphic design students; mainz; nov. 2001 creative review; the shows: part two; best works from this year's degree shows; p.48; london; sep. 2001 trans-form, trans-it, www.trans-port.org; magazine, attached cd-rom, website; award-winning FL@33 project; london; july 2001 black & white; RCA, royal college of art; communication art & design post-graduate course 2001; london; july 2001 the show 2001; catalogue; RCA, royal college of art; communication art & design; p.147+157; london; july 2001 design week; reality bites; pp.16-19; writers: clive grinyer + michael johnson; london; 28 June 2001 zwischenstation | coup de grace; self-published poetry collection, ltd. edition: 100; frankfurt; jan. 1998 coming soon: t-shirt 360º, by pedro guitton, index book, barcelona, april 2006 what is graphic design for?, by alice twemlow, FL@33/stereohype.com, rotovision, east sussex, may 2006 creative review, work for charities and non-profit organisations, london, may 2006 tattoo icons, by victionary, hong kong, 2006 public address system, exhibition catalogue, henry peacock gallery, images publishing of melbourne, march 2006 300% cotton, more t-shirt graphics, by helen walters, cover and book design by FL@33, laurence king publishing, london, 2006 +81, graphic design issue, FL@33 feature, japan, tokyo, 2006 computer arts, FL@33 feature, london, july 2006 new graphic, FL@33 feature, china, beijing, 2006 design in europe 2006, pyramyd editions, paris, 2006 and other visual habits, issue 2, london, 2006 dna identity, by pedro guitton, index book, barcelona, 2006 diy bunny postcard book 2, by toy2r, hong kong, 2006 the blade, by pocko editions, the new advertising publication, london, 2006 a book of badges/pins/buttons, written by gavin lucas and designed by nathan gale, laurence king publishing, london, 2006 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ exhibitions: l'arte di sacla - exhibition, paris  june 2005 cut'n'paste remix by FL@33 [expo details] We were commissioned a few months ago by zoto prod, paris, to create motion graphics for the l'arte di sacla exhibition, paris, which is part of the french sacla pr campaign by ad agency resonnances. Six selected photographers, illustrators, painters, sculptors and graphic designers are presenting their interpretation of the brand and its ingredients. The brief was particularly free to allow as much artistic freedom as possible. After a series of private views the exhibition is open to the public from: 9 - 12 june 2005, 11am - 6pm. le temple 153, avenue ledru rollin, 75011 paris métro: ledru rollin, voltaire bus: 46, 56, 60, 61, 69, 76, 86 parking: 100m: 121, avenue ledru rollin see exhibit 8min20sec by FL@33 + stereohype collection 04/05 2 Dec. 04 - 14 Jan. 05, Mo-Fr, 10am-9pm, opening night (by invitation only): Wed, 1 Dec. 04, 6pm-9pm. Zoto Prod / Keepcoul, 44, Rue Alexandre Dumas, 75011 Paris, France. 8min20sec by FL@33 is a series of photographic artworks with accompanying videos. additional info and picture a discerning christmas single-edition Yuletide cards designed by the illustrators and designers from MA communication design at central saint martins who teamed up with: GTF, NCC, Build, Hort, Spin, FL@33, Wig-01, eBoy, Experimental Jetset and many others. All proceeds from exhibition and sales were donated to the students' final show. 7 Dec 2004, notting hill arts club, london. see exhibit royal college of art [rca] secrets original works of art for only £35 at the annual postcard exhibition and fundraising sale now in its 11th year. you guess who it's by. 19 - 27 Nov. 2004 see exhibits emerging designers 2004 | GraficEurope 2004 FL@33 has been nominated to be part of the emerging designers 2004 exhibition at the graficeurope conference in berlin next month. We will also be part of the second public address system poster exhibition. toy2r worldwide tour with 8" knuckle bears customized by FL@33 Taiwan, Station 2, Living Mall Taipei, July 29th-31st and Hong Kong, Station 1, The Sun Arcade TST, August 5th-19th, 2004  see exibits use again exhibition Initiated and curated by flink, belgium. june 25th - september 30th, 2004. flink gallery, de burburestraat 20, 2000 antwerp, belgium. launch 'useagain' site design-a-qee-expo uk 2004 The qee-expo 2004, london, including our winning artwork 'mr papillon' cat qee. 1 - 31 may 2004, 6 newburgh street, london w1f (parallel to carnaby street) public address system [berlin] public address system in berlin, as part of graficeurope, october 2004. public address system [london] Typographic interpretations of historical speeches. Henry peacock gallery, london, 9 jan - 15t feb 2004. curator: angharad lewis, grafik magazine see exhibit and snapshots adc new york travelling exhibition no. 82 sept. 2003 - aug. 2004  see exhibit bienal de valencia 2003: the ideal city a&m | reading department june 6 - sept. 30, 2003  see exhibit and snapshots gb: graphic britain | book launch exhibition magma gallery, clerkenwell, london oct. 7 - nov. 8, 2002  see exhibits and snapshots impuls.5 | FL@33 solo exhibition köhler architekten frankfurt | june - aug. 2002  see snapshots bookshop la hune | shop window paris | march 2002  see snapshots fiac2001 | int. art fair café des arts | expo porte de versailles paris | oct. 2001  see exhibits | read interview the show 2001 | RCA royal college of art london | june - july 2001  see snapshots yr.1 exhibitions | channel 4 the photographers gallery | london | open eye gallery | liverpool | stills gallery | edinburgh | june-july 2001  see exhibit work in progress | RCA royal college of art london | jan. 2001  see exhibit 1 | see exhibit 2 the folio society | RCA royal college of art london | 2000  see exhibit mrap | movement against racism gallery la pochade paris | 1998 no documentation first edition | book fair leipzig | 1998  see exhibit 2000 perspektiven 1 & 2 | group exhibitions both frankfurt | 1998 no documentation +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ novum - world of graphic design FL@33 profile november 2004 front cover + pp.54-61 successful duo "(...) We love it all..." Jack of all trades, but master of none ­ an old adage that FL@33 in London have disproved once and for all. They are masters of all the various disciplines in visual communication, showing that things that are fun are good for one’s soul, and also good for the customers. Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek can look back on an amazing success story, even in the short space of time since they set up FL@33 in 2001 after graduating from the Royal College of Art. Both had done a range of commissions and projects during their studies, and soon began to win design prizes, which in turn attracted the interest of new customers and agencies in FL@33. Among the most well known triggers for this chain reaction is certainly Jacquillat and Vollauschek’s prize-winning multimedia project on tower cranes. Inspired by the view from their office window over the skyline of the London district of Paddington, the two developed the magazine TRANS-FORM, the CD-Rom TRANS-IT and the website »www.trans-port.org«. Other awards were received for their Animated Acoustic Typefaces and Eat and be Eaten, an animation about singing, and as the name says, self-consuming pasta. And for the Pencil Sculpture illustration series. With the sound collection »www.bzzzpeek.com«, the two creatives continued their success, bringing FL@33 a number of awards, including last years special mention in the Net Vision/Net Excellence category at the ars electronica. The two regard the many prizes they have received as a welcome side effect, but the mission of FL@33 is primarily to produce professional, lively, fresh and artistic work. What’s important to the designers is that there should be a balance between commissioned and self-initiated projects, and that the fields they work in should be as diverse as possible. Certainly there’s no danger that FL@33 will fall into the trap of churning out one-size-fits-all design, as they see themselves as a multilingual, multispecialist, multidisciplinary design studio. Alone the backgrounds of the two partners ensure that. Agathe Jacquillat was born in Paris, studied design in Paris, Rhode Island and Gothenburg, and has worked, among others, for Young & Rubicam, Pentagram and the Dazed & Confused magazine. Tomi Vollauschek is Austrian, was born in Frankfurt am Main, and studied communication design in Darmstadt and London. The two crossed paths at the Royal College of Art in London, where Jacquillat and Vollauschek found in each other the perfect partner for setting up a business. Since then the two have worked in Notting Hill in London, where they draw inspiration for their fantastic design work from the tower cranes and lots of other things. As their next projects, they would like to extend their product range to include T-shirt design and more posters. Then there’s the plans for a book about FL@33, that the two have been working on for some time, and which promises 90% of designs that have never yet been published. So keep your eyes open for more to come from this unusual designer duo. [Christine Moosmann] GERMAN/DEUTSCHE VERSION "(...) We love it all..." Man sagt, wer alles kann, kann nichts richtig. Bei FL@33 in London beherrscht man die verschiedenen Disziplinen visueller Kommunikation jedoch meisterlich und beweist, daß Dinge, die Spaß machen, nicht nur für die eigene Seele, sondern auch für die Kunden gut sind. Agathe Jacquillat und Tomi Vollauschek können mit ihrem Designstudio auf eine erstaunliche Erfolgsgeschichte zurückblicken und das, obwohl sie FL@33 erst 2001 nach Abschluß ihrer Ausbildung am Royal College of Art gründeten. Beide hatten bereits während ihres Studium diverse Aufträge und Projekte realisiert und gewannen bald Designpreise, die ihrerseits die Aufmerksamkeit neuer Kunden und Agenturen auf FL@33 lenkten. Zu den bekanntesten Auslösern dieser Kettenreaktion gehört sicher Jacquillats und Vollauscheks preisgekröntes Multimediaprojekt über Baukräne. Inspiriert vom Blick aus ihrem Bürofenster auf die Skyline des Londoner Stadtteils Paddington, entwickelten die beiden das Magazin TRANS-FORM, die CD-Rom TRANS-IT und die Website »www.trans-port.org«. Weitere Auszeichnungen erhielten beide für ihre Animated Acoustic Typefaces und Eat and be Eaten, eine Animation über singende und, wie der Name sagt, sich verschlingende Pasta sowie für die Pencil Sculpture Illustration Serie. Mit der Sound Collection »www.bzzzpeek.com« setzten sie ihren Erfolgskurs fort, sie brachte FL@33 im vergangenen Jahr unter anderem eine lobende Erwähnung in der Kategorie Net Vision/Net Excellence bei der ars electronica ein. Die zahlreichen Preise sind für beide aber eher ein willkommener Nebeneffekt, in erster Linie hat FL@33 eine Mission und zwar, professionelle, lebendige und frische, künstlerische Arbeiten zu schaffen. Dabei ist es den Designern wichtig, daß sich Auftragsarbeiten und selbstinitiierte Projekte die Waage halten und die Betätigungsfelder möglichst abwechslungsreich sind. Gestalterischer Einheitskost verwehrt sich schon allein die Ausrichtung von FL@33, das sich als multilinguales, multispezialisiertes, multidisziplinäres Designstudio begreift und natürlich bringen auch die Biografien der beiden Gründer eine gewisse Abwechslung mit sich. Agathe Jacquillat ist gebürtige Pariserin, studierte in Paris, Rhode Island und Göteborg Design und arbeitete unter anderem für Young & Rubicam, Pentagram sowie für das Dazed & Confused Magazin. Tomi Vollauschek ist Österreicher, wurde in Frankfurt am Main geboren und studierte Kommunikationsdesign in Darmstadt und London. Die Wege der beiden kreuzten sich schließlich am Royal College of Art in London, wo Jacquillat und Vollauschek im jeweils anderen den perfekten Partner für eine Geschäftsgründung entdeckten. Seither arbeiten beide im Londoner Stadtteil Notting Hill, wo sie sich von Baukränen und vielen anderen Dingen zu fantastischen Designarbeiten inspirieren lassen. Als neues Projekt möchten sie ihre Produktreihe um T-Shirt-Designs und weitere Poster erweitern und dann steht natürlich noch immer das FL@33-Buch aus, an dem beide schon seit einiger Zeit arbeiten und das neunzig Prozent neue, bisher unveröffentlichte Arbeiten verspricht. Also weiterhin Augen offen halten nach dem ungewöhnlichen Designerduo. [Christine Moosmann] 01 FL@33 Buchauszug / book excerpt, Shadows, Eiffel Tower, 2003 02 + 06 Ascii Eye Animation. Standbilder / Stills. Kunde / Client: Alsop Architects, Bienal de Valencia 2003 03 ­ 04 trans-form magazine. erhältlich unter / available via www.flat33.com 05 Cityscape Insect. trans-form Doppelseite / spread, 2001 07 FL@33 Buchauszug / book excerpt Spring #1, 2003 08 FL@33 Buchauszug, Luftaufnahme 33 / book excerpt, Aerial Photo 33, 2003 09 FL@33 Buchauszug / book excerpt, Winterschlaf / Hibernation, 2003 10 ­ 13 Kombination Broschüre und Plakat / Brochure and poster combination. Kunde / Client: École Normale de Musique, 2003 14 Miami Ad School. Artikel / Feature. Creative Review, 2003 15 8'' Toy2R Knuckle Bear. Rohling / blank 16 ­ 23 Umgestaltete / Customized Knuckle Bears. Kunde / Client: Toy2R, Hong Kong, 2004 24 ­ 27 200% Cotton ­ New T-Shirt Graphics. Buchdesign und Titel-illustration / Book design and cover illustration, 2004 28 Flower Hunting in Congo. Illustration. Kunde / Client: BlackBook Magazine, New York, 2004 29 ­ 34 FL@33-Artikel / profile in The Creator Studio Spiegel / mirrors Ausgabe / issue #2. Kunde / Client: Torraspapel, Barcelona, 2004 35 FL@33 Logo 36 »Singende Nudeln oder: fressen und gefressen werden« / »Singing Pasta or Eat and Be Eaten« (Animation. ) 37 Ausstellungsplakat / Exhibition poster. Schmetterlingskulptur aus 818 Stiften / Butterfly Sculpure contains 818 Pencils, 2002 38 ­ 40 AAT ­ Animated Acoustic Typefaces. Kostenloser / Free download unter / at www.flat33.com 41 ­ 42 Klassische Musikkampagne / Classical music campaign. Kunde / Client: Royal Festival Hall, 2002­2003 43 ­ 45 stereohype.com ­ graphic art and fashion boutique. FL@33 T-shirts. Teleskop series, 2004 46 stereohype.com Eröffnungs-T-Shirt / Launch T-Shirt, 2004 47 stereohype.com ­ T-Shirt »Schmetterlinge im Bauch« / »Butterflies in my Stomach«, 2004 48 Laurence King Publishing T-shirt für / for stereohype.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FL@33 book | design & designer 033 - FL@33 | bi-lingual [english | french] | paris, france | may 2005 | 120 pages, colour throughout | 15 x 16cm, paperback with flaps | ISBN : 2-910565-99-8 | design&designer 033_FL@33 [online bookshop links below] We were commissioned in early 2005 by paris-based pyramyd editions to prepare a book on FL@33 projects. When we finished our work back in february we magically managed to secure edition number 33! The FL@33 monograph was published in may as part of the highly collectable and effordable design & designer series. The introduction of the book entitled 'design & designer 033 - FL@33' is written by journalist liz brown who wrote a FL@33 profile in 2003 for grafik magazine issue 110. The book includes our early works, recent ones and previously unpublished projects. It costs about 13 Euro (approx. £10) and will soon be available in the UK. We'll keep you posted. In the meantime you can order it online in the following french bookshops (some of which are offering english checkout procedures): artdesign.fr (english/french) artazart.com (french only) amazon.fr (french only) Londres, et l’espace urbain en général, exerce une fascination sur FL@33. La ville devient alors le sujet de toutes sortes d’expé-rimentations graphiques. Ce travail de recherche tient une place prépondérante dans leurs différents champs de création. La production de FL@33 se caractérise aussi par une diversité des formes. Agathe et Tomi développent des projets incluant des supports imprimés, des images animées et répondant à des préoccupations artistiques ou plus techniques. Le style de ce duo graphique se régénère et se renouvelle sans cesse, une originalité déjà récompensée par de nombreux prix. London, and the urban space in general, exert a fascination on FL@33, who use the city as a test bed for all kinds of graphic experimentation. This exploration takes a prominent role in their design work. FL@33's output is also characterised by a diversity of tasks and forms. Agathe and Tomi's projects include printed media and animated images, and satisfy artistic and more technical concerns. The duo's graphic style is in a state of constant regeneration and renewal, and its originality has already won many awards. Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek, both graduates of the Royal College of Art, set up FL@33 in July 2001 in London. FL@33 is true to the Power of 3 theory, based on the balance between intellect, technique and emotion. This balance is also apparent in the duo's creative affinities: Tomi is into video and animation, while Agathe creates websites. They are also active in fields such as illus-tration, posters, editorial design, exhibition design and photography. Diplômés du Royal College of Art, Agathe Jacquillat et Tomi Vollauschek créent FL@33 en juillet 2001 à Londres. FL@33 est fidèle à la théorie du Power of 3 fondée sur l’équilibre entre intellect, technique et émotion. L’équilibre s’illustre aussi dans les affinités créatrices ; Tomi se charge de la vidéo, l’animation et Agathe de la création de sites Web. Autant de champs de création auxquels s’ajoutent l’illustration, l’affiche, le design éditorial, la scénographie, la photographie, etc. Graphistes, designers, illustrateurs ou encore photographes, les créateurs de tout ordre se rencontrent dans design&designer et nous font découvrir leurs travaux les plus significatifs. Dans chacune de ces monographies, la parole est donnée à l’image mais également à la création dans ce qu’elle a de propre à chaque auteur. Graphic artists, designers, illustrators and photographers, creators from all backgrounds, are brought together in design&designer and introduce us to their most significant works. In each of these monographs, images are given a prominent part to play along with the unique qualities of each artist’s work. Agathe Jacquillat et Tomi Vollauschek ont quitté au printemps dernier leur atelier de Notting Hill, dans l’ouest de Londres. Bien qu’ils disposent maintenant d’un espace plus vaste dans l’est de la ville, à Clerkenwell ­ le quartier officieux de l’industrie créative londonienne à l’heure actuelle ­, cela a marqué à bien des égards la fin d’une époque. Ce lieu a joué un rôle crucial dans leur histoire et celle de FL@33 : c’est là qu’ils ont créé FL@33 en juillet 2001, et ils y bénéficiaient de quelque chose de bien rare pour des citadins : une vue. Naturellement, leur départ signifiait aussi qu’ils quittaient l’appartement trente-trois. Mais l’emménagement dans l’atelier de Clerkenwell marque le début d’une nouvelle ère et ouvre de nouvelles perspectives. Agathe et Tomi sont tous deux très attachés à Londres. C’est là qu’ils se sont rencontrés au cours de leurs études supérieures au Royal College of Art. Agathe arrivait de sa France natale et Tomi d’Allemagne. Tomi est venu à Londres pour la première fois à l’adolescence, lors d’un séjour linguis-tique ; il a par la suite commencé la phase londonienne de sa formation au graphisme en 1997, en étudiant pendant un semestre au Camberwell College of Art. La même année ­ mais à leur insu à tous les deux ­, Agathe travaillait à l’autre bout de la ville dans les bureaux du magazine Dazed and Confused en tant que graphiste assistante, avant d’intégrer le Royal College of Art. Ils ne peuvent imaginer de meilleur endroit pour travailler. Londres exerce donc sur eux une sorte de fascination, peut-être renforcée par un phénomène dont peuvent témoigner tous ceux qui ont vécu à l’étranger : même les tâches quotidiennes les plus banales semblent alors un peu plus intéressantes ­ comme si les sens étaient plus aiguisés. On fait attention à des choses que les autres peuvent ne pas remarquer. Mais, par-dessus tout, vivre à Londres leur permet de faire le genre ­ ou les genres ­ de travaux qu’ils aiment. Cela couvre un immense éventail de projets dans une vaste gamme de formats, répon-dant à des préoccupations tantôt purement artistiques, tantôt d’une technicité scientifique. Selon eux, ce ne serait pas aussi simple s’ils travaillaient ailleurs. La mixité culturelle de la ville a créé une grande ouverture d’esprit chez ses habitants, y compris chez leurs clients qui se soucient moins des étiquettes professionnelles qu’ailleurs et se laissent davantage convaincre par la capacité d’un graphiste à résoudre un problème de la façon la plus intéressante possible. De ce fait, le graphisme, du moins en ce qui concerne le travail de FL@33, se révèle être un terme usé et un peu creux, qui a perdu depuis longtemps le pouvoir de décrire les façons multiples dont ils mettent en oeuvre leurs talents. Agathe et Tomi ont délibérément conçu leur premier projet signé FL@33, Trans-Form, comme une entité multiforme incluant des supports imprimés, des images animées et l’Internet, afin que l’on ne puisse se méprendre sur l’ampleur de leur savoir-faire et la variété de leurs visées professionnelles. Le format final est la partie émergée de l’iceberg : le projet global comprend des photographies et des dessins illustrant leur vision du panorama urbain de Londres, des animations d’insectes au corps fait de grues à tour, une police de caractères formée de ces grues et un essai décrivant leur fonctionnement. Tout cela a également eu un effet secondaire, peut-être plus inattendu : ce n’est pas seulement leur versatilité en matière de format qui a attiré l’attention. Agathe et Tomi ont la satisfaction d’avoir reçu, depuis lors, des commandes de clients qui avaient vu l’un de leurs projets, l’avaient aimé, puis les avaient contactés pour savoir s’ils ne faisaient par hasard aussi des choses complètement diffé-rentes, ce qui est invariablement le cas. La première personne à leur avoir adressé cette question est leur client du Royal Festival Hall de Londres, qui avait vu le projet Trans-Form. Il leur a demandé de créer une série d’affiches et de brochures pour la campagne de promotion de la musique clas-sique du Royal Festival Hall : des graphistes capables de rendre des grues à tour belles et intéres-santes ne doivent pas avoir de peine à diversifier l’image et l’audience de la musique classique. Leur aptitude à dégager et à incarner l’essence du caractère de chaque client ou commande est telle qu’on leur a demandé, à de nombreuses reprises, de concevoir la maquette de livres et des illustrations pour des couvertures de magazines, comme 200 % Cotton, The Creator Studio, MM media&marketing, Creative Review ou encore Novum. Agathe et Tomi ont aussi une fascination pour les mots qui provient en partie du fait qu’ils ont des langues maternelles différentes et qu’ils communiquent souvent dans une troisième langue « neutre ». Cela a déclenché le deuxième grand projet né de leur propre initiative : le site Internet bzzzpeek.com, qui a commencé sous la forme d’un échange de cris d’animaux en français et en allemand. Bzzzpeek.com comprend à présent tout un zoo d’onomatopées ainsi que des ajouts plus modernes, comme des bruits de voiture et des sirènes de police. Dix-sept langues sont représentées, et les visiteurs du site peuvent combler n’importe quelle lacune qu’ils viendraient à découvrir. Le site a été conçu pour être facile à utiliser, même par un enfant de deux ans, si bien qu’il est très apprécié dans les écoles. Et www.yahoo.fr l’a classé parmi les sites internationaux les plus populaires en 2003, mais ce n’est que l’un des multiples hommages qu’il ait reçu sur Internet, à la télévision, à la radio, et dans la presse écrite. Agathe et Tomi continuent de créer leurs propres projets à une échelle tout aussi ambitieuse que celle de Trans-Form au début de FL@33. Leur préoccupation actuelle est Stereohype.com, leur boutique d’arts graphiques et de mode, en ligne depuis 2004. Elle est aussi communautaire et interactive ­ le premier concours pour la création d’un badge a donné lieu à près de trois cents participations. Les projets d’Agathe et de Tomi les obligent régulièrement à éteindre leur ordinateur, à ranger leurs crayons, à prendre leur appareil photo et le chemin de l’aéroport. Ou, tout au moins, lorsqu’ils habi-taient à Notting Hill, à passer un peu de temps sur le balcon, d’où ils ont vu pour la première fois les grues à tour qui allaient devenir le projet Trans-Form. En fait, beaucoup de leurs projets voient le jour de cette manière. Un voyage à Budapest dans la famille de Tomi et des vacances à Paris ont fait naître plusieurs séries de photographies. L’une des photographies de Paris, prise depuis la tour Eiffel, représente un groupe de personnes dont les ombres prennent vie et vice-versa ­ un mélange de réalité et d’ombres chinoises. Cette vivacité d’esprit et ce sens de l’humour sont souvent manifestes dans leurs travaux. Un autre projet entrepris au Royal College of Art et qui a contribué à les faire connaître: l’animation primée de Tomi intitulée « Singing Pasta ou Eat and Be Eaten » (« Les Pâtes chantantes ou Manger et être mangé ») met en scène deux nouilles qui chantent de l’opéra. L’architecte britannique Will Alsop leur a commandé une animation pour la biennale de Valence de 2003. Les spectateurs voient un oeil énorme, créé en code ASCII, qui leur rend leur regard. Leur film promotionnel pour GraficEurope montre un personnage dont le nez est le menton retourné d’Agathe ; tandis que celle-ci parcourt le texte du scénario en gloussant, on peut entendre un fou rire en bruit de fond. Leur travail pour le fournisseur français de matelas et de lits Matelsom comprenait des cartes de visite représentant la position préférée de chaque employé pour dormir. Il est très difficile, malgré tout, de parler d’un « style FL@33 », car chaque nouveau projet diffère radi-calement de tous les autres. Agathe et Tomi semblent avoir un besoin compulsif de laisser loin derrière eux le format et le style visuel de chaque projet dès qu’il s’achève, si bien que l’irruption de nouveaux défis leur convient à merveille. De temps à autre, il arrive que certains motifs refassent leur apparition. Par exemple, l’affiche que FL@33 a créée pour l’exposition liée au lancement d’un livre à la boutique d’art londonienne Magma contient une sculpture en forme de papillon ; le « Mr Papillon » qu’ils ont dessiné pour le fabricant de jouets hongkongais Toy2R porte un masque en forme de papillon ; et on en trouve encore un dans l’une de leurs créations pour Stereohype.com. Mais la ressemblance sur le plan esthétique est mince: le papillon de l’affiche a été conçu comme une sculpture graphique qui mobilise 818 crayons de couleurs (vus à leur taille réelle, grâce à l’échelle de l’impression), alors que celui de Stereohype est une illustration d’Agathe. On peut relever un thème récurrent dans leur usage de la photographie, en particulier lorsqu’il s’agit de paysages urbains. Ces derniers sont souvent doublés d’un reflet, retournés ou déformés de manière à donner une vision inversée de la vie citadine ou à produire un type différent de paysage ou de forme vivante, comme les systèmes d’artères qui émergent de leur série de photographies « Perfectly Symmetrical » (« Parfaitement symétrique »). Peut-être est-ce la raison pour laquelle Agathe et Tomi aiment tant Londres ­ ils ne se sentent pas écrasés par le panorama urbain, parce qu’ils ont autant d’influence sur lui qu’il en a sur eux. Mais le plus important est que leurs projets sont réalisés dans un « esprit » particulier. Dans une interview, Agathe parle du « triple pouvoir », dont elle a entendu parler au Royal College of Art, qui consiste à obtenir un équilibre entre les mains, la tête et le coeur. Et les travaux de FL@33 sont clai-rement sous-tendus par la conviction que, tout comme les grues à tour, le sujet de tout projet ou commande est beau, est intéressant ­ il suffit de s’assurer qu’on le regarde comme il faut. Liz Brown Journaliste FL@33 intro | Pyramyd Editions | Liz Brown Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek moved out of their Notting Hill studio in West London in the Spring. Though they’re now in a bigger space in Clerkenwell, East London (currently the unofficial home of London’s creative industry), it marked the end of an era in many ways too. It played such a key role in their and FL@33’s history ­ FL@33 was set up there in July 2001 and they also had something that is a rarity for most city dwellers: a view. And, of course, it also entailed leaving flat number thirty-three. But the move to the Clerkenwell studio marks the start of a new era, and promises whole new vistas. Both Agathe and Tomi have a great affection for London. It’s here that they met, during their postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art. Agathe came from her native France and Tomi from Germany. Tomi first visited as an English language student in his teens, and then began the London phase of his design training in 1997 with a semester as a student at the Camberwell College of Art. During that same year ­ but then unknown to each other ­ Agathe was across town working at Dazed & Confused magazine’s office as a design assistant before she went to the RCA. They can’t think of anywhere else they’d rather work. As a result London has a fascination for them, perhaps encouraged by the phenomenon that anyone who has lived overseas will testify to, which makes even the most mundane of everyday tasks feel a little bit more interesting ­ as though their senses have become keener. They notice things that other people might not. But mostly, being in London allows them to do the kind ­ or kinds ­ of work they like to do. This for them means a huge variety of projects in a wide range of formats, from the purely artistic to the scientifically technical, something they say would not be so straightforward if they were working somewhere else. The city’s multiculturalism has created a high degree of open-mindedness among its residents, they say, including their own clients, who are less concerned with job titles and more influenced by a designer’s ability to solve a problem in the most interesting way possible. Consequently, and certainly as far as FL@33’s work is concerned, ‘graphic design’ is becoming a tired and slightly empty phrase that has long since ceased to be able to describe the many ways in which they apply their skills. Agathe and Tomi’s first project as FL@33, trans-form, was deliberately published as a multi-format entity encompassing print, moving image and web so there would be no mistaking the breadth of their skills and wide-ranging professional intentions. The final format is the tip of the iceberg, too: as a whole the project features photography and line-drawn illustrations of their view of the London skyline, tower-crane-insect animations, and tower-crane-shaped lettering, plus an essay that describes how tower cranes work. But this also had a side effect that was perhaps less anticipated: it wasn’t only their versatility with formats that attracted attention. Agathe and Tomi are pleased that they have since had commissions from clients who saw one of their projects, liked it, and then called and asked if they happened also to do something completely different, which they invariably do. The first person to do this was their client at London’s Royal Festival Hall, who had seen the trans-form project. He asked them to create a series of posters and brochures for the RFH’s Classical Music Campaign: designers who can make tower cranes look interesting and beautiful should have no problem with broadening the image and appeal of classical music. Their ability to distil and embody the character of each client or commission is such that they have had repeat orders for book design and magazine front cover illustrations, including 200% Cotton, and The Creator Studio magazine, MM media&marketing, Creative Review, and Novum magazine. Agathe and Tomi also have a fascination for words that’s partly prompted by the fact that they have different native languages and often communicate in a ‘neutral’ third. This led to the creation of the second of their major self-initiated projects: the bzzzpeek.com website, which began as an exchange of French and German animal sounds. bzzzpeek.com now includes an entire zoo of onomatopoeic noises, plus more modern additions like cars and police sirens. Seventeen languages are represented and visitors to the site can fill any gaps that they see. It was designed to be easy for even a two-year old to use, so it’s popular with schools too, and was listed by www.yahoo.fr as one of the most popular international sites in 2003, just one of its many plaudits across the web, TV, radio, and print. They continue to create their own projects on a scale that is just as ambitious as trans-form was during FL@33’s early days. The current preoccupation is Stereohype.com, FL@33’s graphic art and fashion boutique that opened online in 2004. Like bzzzpeek.com, it is communal and interactive ­ the first badge design competition received almost 300 entries. Agathe’s and Tomi’s projects regularly demand that they turn off their computers, tidy away their pencils, pick up their cameras and head for the airport. Or at the very least, when they were in Notting Hill, spend a little time on the balcony, from where they first saw the tower cranes that were to become the trans-form project. Indeed, many of their projects begin life this way. A trip to Budapest to visit Tomi’s relatives and some time off in Paris produced a number of photographic series. One from Paris, photographed from the Eiffel Tower, depicts a group of people whose shadows become their real selves and vice versa ­ a mixture of real life and shadow puppetry. This keen appreciation of wit and a sense of humour is often evident. Another RCA project that helped get them noticed was Tomi’s award-winning animation called ‘Singing Pasta’ or ‘Eat and Be Eaten’, which features two pieces of opera-singing pasta. They were commissioned by the British architect Will Alsop to create an animation for the 2003 Valencia Biennial. Viewers see an enormous eye, created in ASCII, staring back at them. Their promotional film for GraficEurope features a character whose nose is Agathe’s upside-down chin and as she giggles her way through the script the sound of hysterical laughter can be heard in the background. Their work for French mattress and bed supplier Matelsom included business cards that feature each employee’s favourite sleeping position. It is very difficult, though, to talk about a ‘FL@33 style’ since each new project’s is so different to any other. They seem to feel a compulsion to leave both format and visual style far behind when each project finishes, so it suits them well when new challenges come along. Occasionally motifs might resurface. A butterfly, for example, appears in the Butterfly Sculpture poster that FL@33 designed for a book launch exhibition at the London art shop Magma; their Mr Papillon design for the Hong Kong toy company Toy2R wears a butterfly mask; and there is another in one of their designs for Stereohype.com. But there are few aesthetic similarities: the poster butterfly was created as a graphic sculpture using 818 coloured pencils (and printed on a scale so that the pencils were life size), while the Stereohype incarnation is an illustration by Agathe. A theme can be detected in their use of photography, particularly their photography of urban landscapes. These are often mirrored, reversed or distorted in order to give a flipside view of city life or to make a different kind of landscape or life-form, like the venous systems that emerge in their photographic series ‘Perfectly Symmetrical’. Perhaps that’s why they like London so much ­ they’re not overwhelmed by the cityscape because they have just as much influence over it as it has over them. But most importantly, work is created in a particular ‘spirit’. In one interview, Agathe commented that at the RCA she heard about the “power of three”, which referred to having an equal balance of hands, brains and heart. And there is clearly an underlying conviction that, just like tower cranes, the subject of any project or commission is interesting and beautiful, you just have to make sure you look at it in the right way. [ends] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 200% cotton - new t-shirt graphics by helen walters Book design and cover illustration by FL@33, also featuring FL@33 artworks for forthcoming stereohype.com t-shirt range and commissioned designs for the '200%' chapter. '200% cotton dogs' t-shirts, a collaboration between laurence king publishing and FL@33 are available via stereohype.com from mid-september. [text excerpts] 200% chapter '200%' we said, and then ran away and left these various designers to design a related T-shirt graphic. The results couldn't be more eclectic, from illustrative to typographic to downright bizarre, while in some cases they're really not related to the brief at all. Nonetheless, this chapter presents a snapshot of some truly creative thinking from a wildly talented group of international artists and designers. p.85 FL@33 [www.flat33.com, www.stereohype.com] SELL chapter The T-shirt has been used as an ideal promotional vehicle since way back when. Here we celebrate brands and designers using the T-shirt as a modern-day equivalent of the sandwich board. Well let's face it, it's a darned sight more convenient. p.135 FL@33 [www.flat33.com, www.stereohype.com] Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek, from France and Germany respectively, met while studying at the Royal College of Art in London. In 2001, they launched their own design agency, FL@33. 'Our mission is to create a vibrant and fresh body of work while maintaining a healthy balance between commissioned and self-initiated projects', they say. Hence their work for clients such as MTV Networks and the Royal Festival Hall, counter-balanced by projects such as their wildly successful experimental sound website, bzzzpeek.com. FL@33 | laurence king publishing collaboration aug. 2004 stereohype t-shirts with '200% cotton' cover artwork the t-shirts will be available for the general public via stereohype.com - graphic art and fashion boutique from september 2004. see also 200% cotton - new t-shirt graphics  [helen walters] a book designed by FL@33 which also features the FL@33 t-shirt range for stereohype.com and: the japanese version of our 200% cover artwork! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FL@33 vs Stereohype.com  august 2004 - ongoing The FL@33 t-shirt range for stereohype - graphic art and fashion boutique FL@33 is currently producing posters, prints, more t-shirts, badges and other products which will be available at stereohype.com [currently only with holding page]. We are also about to finish their visual identity and will then create and build the online shop. stereohype.com should be 'up and running' by mid-september. Stereohype.com is a platform for designers and artists around the world offering limited editions and other rare and generally inspiring products. Regular competitions will give newcomers and established artists/designers the chance to promote their talent and to get their artwork produced and featured. 1 'Stereohype Squirrel' 2 'Butterflies in my stomach' 3-5 the first three FL@33 T's of the 'coin-operated telescopes series': 'London', 'New York' and 'Paris'. 6 see more FL@33 t-shirts here: FL@33 | laurence king publishing collaboration for stereohype.com, t-shirts with '200% cotton' cover artwork. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ movie, newsletter & microsite london | august 2004 commissioned by rotovision/rockport publishers for graphic design conference GraficEurope, berlin, 14-16 oct. 2004 FL@33 has been asked to develop an idea to promote Graficeurope. The little movie we came up with has been sent via newsletter linking to a microsite with streaming quicktime movie. people who enjoyed this movie also appreciated this one... 8) see also: FL@33 poster at GraficEurope/public address system exhibition. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ FL@33 vs Toy2R  june 2004 toy2r 8" knuckle bears customized by FL@33 Toy2R invited FL@33 to customize one black and one white blank knuckle bear for a series of fairs and exhibitions. It has been very difficult for us to let go of our finished KBs after 'mr bad luck' and 'mr icebear' were created but we have finally sent them back home to hong kong-based toy2r... They are currently on big asia tour with toy2r accompanied by some of their 8" and 2" friends... 8) Hopefully we are left with all the qee characters toy2r has kindly given us to play with. some of their appearances include: Toy2r Worldwide Tour - Taiwan Station 2 at Living Mall Taipei, Taiwan at 7/29-31/2004 Toy2r Worldwide Tour - Hong Kong Station 1 at The Sun Arcade TST, Hong Kong at 8/5-19/2004 see also our design of  2" kit cat qee 'mr papillon' to be produced in october 2004. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++   October 2003 grafik [formerly graphics international] issue 110 with animations and motion graphics  may 2003 MTV Networks | VH1 European FL@33 has been commissioned to create idents for VH1 European. The projects includes 3 vj (presenter) background animations (2 min each) for daytime, evening and weekend. Additionally a series of 10 animations such as butterflies, birds, etc have been developed to be fired live onto the backgrounds (in front of live texts but behind the presenter) as an occasional motif to play with. Background sounds and menues for information astons, tour dates, programming info, etc. are completing the project. The backgrounds and choice of colours are reflecting the channels's personality and mood of the different programming blocks. The idents are to be aired approx. 120 times per week. [quicktime movie links below] Commissioner: Leighton Cheal Art Direction and Production: FL@33 start QuickTime movie [weekend] start QuickTime movie [daytime] start QuickTime movie [evening] [doesn't work? get free QuickTime 6 plugin here] [automatic connection speed detection to allow the QT movies to be streamed in the best possible quality] duration: 2 min 28k [average: 1.6 MB] 56k [average: 2.9 MB] 112k+ [average: 5.45 MB] see also: MTV:NEW pitch +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 'MTV:NEW pitch  march 2003 see also: the commissioned VH1 animations may 2003 We recently pitched on this project which has unfortunately not been chosen - but we like the minimalistic concept and atmospheric feel of our solutions for this show. The animations feature hyper-realistic nature illustrations moving in the wind and through time. Minor details such as suddenly moving flowers, plants and insects are presented in a rather dramatic and theatrical way. The look is contemporary but timeless. We developed a new mtv:new logo, one 20 sec opening title; bumpers. 5 sec into and out of commercial breaks; stings. 2-3 sec to break up editorial; info backgrounds, clip titling, font, set,... creative brief (excerpts): MTV NEW is 'cool' and 'stylish' and keeps its viewers up-to-date with a selection of quality music and videos. It is editorially driven and informative with an entertaining twist. MTV NEW is more purist in both its output and look. Create an identity which is fresh and bold and will make a mark. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TOI COM MOI toicommoi TOI COM MOI toicommemoi TOI COM MOI toi comme moi TOI COM MOI moicomtoi TOI COM MOI moicommetoi| branding for new parisian fashion label nov. 2003 Toi Com Moi is a new fashion label offering collections specialized on parents and children clothing. Fathers and sons, mums and daughters can find identical items. FL@33 started with the concept generation for logo [also to be used on labels] and corporate identity. Postcard designs and the embroidery labels have been produced. Website, stationary, etc. are in progress. toi com moi | e-commerce site [phase 1]  toicommoi.com may 2004 - ongoing Paris-based Toi Com Moi is a new fashion label offering collections specialized on parents and children clothing. Fathers and sons, mums and daughters can find identical items. FL@33 has been commissioned to generate concepts, visual identity and their e-commerce site. The site incorporates everyday snapshots and animations of children doodles to create an accessible and playful atmosphere. see also corporate identity Website [phase 2], stationery, etc. are in progress. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ awards, nominations and prizes field guide to emerging design talent 2005  read profile FL@33 nomination, profile in step magazine, usa emerging designers 2004 FL@33 has been nominated to be part of the emerging designers 2004 exhibition at the graficeurope conference in berlin. design-a-qee expo uk 2004 Our design of  2" kit cat qee 'mr papillon' is 1of 20 winners [from just over a thousand entries]. Available from July 2005 as part of the toy2r design-a-qee uk series. construction new media award 2004 | design indaba Gold for bzzzpeek.com in the category online/functional at the construction new media award in association with the 7th design indaba expo. constructionaward.com adc ny [art directors club new york]  distinctive merit award 2003 category: interactive media work: bzzzpeek.com prix ars electronica 2003  linz, austria honorary mention category: net vision | net excellence work: bzzzpeek.com bzzzpeek.com has been chosen website of the day | week | month in numerous publications, website portals and linklists. please see: 'www' for links creative review | the annual 2003  london, uk influential works | november categories | graphic design | illustration work: pencil sculpture illustration series see annual i.d. [int. design] cincinnati, ohio, usa review 2002 | design distinction category: graphic design work: trans-form, trans-it, trans-port.org mda [magazine design awards] 2002  london, uk finalist [shortlist of 6] category: best use of illustration work: trans-form magazine d&ad [british design and art direction]   annual 2002 london, uk 2 selections for inclusion category 1: magazine design | editorial design category 2: illustration [series] work: trans-form magazine :output 4 | verlag hermann schmidt, int. yearbook | awarded works of graphic design students | cd-rom FL@33 #1 mainz | nov. 2001 see spread noos | paris, france international multimedia competition 2001 work 1: aat - animated, acoustic typefaces work 2: 'singing pasta' or 'eat and be eaten' first prize wh smith portfolio award 2001 [rca]   london, uk first prize daad scholarship 2000-2001 [rca]  cologne, germany +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ free downloads AAT - Animated, Acoustic Typefaces 1999-2001 [prototype] beta-version4, hybrid: pc and mac projector both: complete mini-CD content see project right-mouse-click | ctrl+click >> download link  mac [33MB] | pc [18MB] Trans-form, Trans-it, trans-port.org screensaver [mac + pc] + wallpapers: currently only available via trans-port.org see project the following projects featured in our work archive are offering quicktime movie streams: 03   vj background animations  MTV networks | VH1 european   animation | exhibit  alsop architects | valencia biennale   01    new year's kit 2002  FL@33   animation proposal 1  spiked   animation proposal 2  spiked   animation | planes delayed  FL@33   animation | drunk  agathe | FL@33   00    animation | metaphysics  agathe | FL@33   video experiment | cctv  agathe | FL@33   animation | singing pasta   tomi | FL@33   installation for 7 screens  tomi | FL@33   pre   video snapshot  agathe | FL@33   animation | wegwerfgesellschaft  tomi | FL@33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++       grafik issue 110  | uncut formerly graphics international  | oct. 2003  | pp.16-21  | writer: liz brown  | FL@33 consultancy profile  | uncut  | consultancy profile: FL@33 If Agathe Jacquillat, one half of FL@33, had grown up in Britain she might have allowed her fate to be decided by a careers advisor. Luckily she grew up in France, and went to see a graphologist. “I was 18 years old,” Jacquillat remembers, “it was after my baccalaureate and I didn’t know what I wanted to do. So I saw a graphologist. After the end of the first interview she said, ‘You like art, don’t you?’, and apparently I had this big smile on my face and she told me I should study graphic design in Paris. And so I did.” Jacquillat, now 28, graduated from the Academy Julian in Paris, and then went onto the RCA (via a summer session at the Rhode Island School of Design in New York, and internships at Young&Rubicam Paris, Dazed & Confused and Pentagram). In contrast, her partner at FL@33, Tomi Vollauschek, 30, was taking drawing classes in his native Frankfurt at the age of nine. “I went into the equivalent of A Levels in Germany with a graphic design background,” he laughs. He had a design degree from FH Darmstadt and spent a semester at Camberwell College before going to the RCA, where the pair met in 1999. They graduated in 2001 and launched FL@33 during their final year show. Aside from wanting to learn more about graphic design, the other aim was to use the RCA experience to help them launch their own company. “I realised that the RCA was useful to propel yourself into the design world,” Jacquillat says, with sense of purpose that more than compensates for her earlier lack of direction. “I wanted to set up my business and I wanted to find somebody to set it up with me.” Vollauschek agrees: “We both wanted to meet somebody as focused as we each were.” To this end, they completed two projects by the time they graduated that would go on to win them prizes, clients and admirers all over the world, and creating what Vollauschek calls the FL@33 “chain reaction” effect. The project for which they are most famous was inspired by the view from the window of their Notting Hill studio. “We wanted to do something that didn’t involve moving too much,” Vollauschek explains (although this was later to backfire). TRANS-FORM is a multi-media celebration of the tower cranes that dominated the Paddington skyline until earlier this year – there is now only one remaining and the view looks empty. “The main challenge was to bring together three different kinds of media,” Vollauschek says. “Usually that’s not our starting point, but in this case it worked quite well. Normally we come up with an idea rather than a presentation environment, but in this case that’s how it started.” The finished project includes a magazine, TRANS-FORM, a website, www.trans-port.org, and a CD-ROM, TRANS-IT, and it was to become a blueprint for the way that FL@33 was to develop, work and think. The company has an impressive output, given that it has been running for just over two years, that it is very much multi-media in its output, and that all work is completed by the two of them. TRANS-FORM includes Armin Linke-style window reflection photographs, line drawings, photo montages, typography and graphics; Monty Pythonesque crane insects scuttle around in the CD-ROM animations; and the website offers the opportunity to climb into a tower crane cab, facilitated by a 30-metre vertical trip Vollauschek took with his camera: “We have a couple of friends who are architects, who allowed us access to construction sites. I ended up on a crane in Frankfurt. It was quite scary – I don’t like heights.” Half of TRANS-FORM’s UK stockists have sold out but it is still on sale at Tate Modern and Zwemmer and is available online from www.flat33.com. The second RCA project that helped propel them, as Jacquillat would say, into the world of design was their animation ‘Singing Pasta’ or ‘Eat and Be Eaten’. As you might guess from the names, it’s a short animation that features two pieces of pasta that ‘sing’ and then one eats the other at the end. It’s a gem, and, along with the Animated Acoustic Typefaces, won them a multimedia competition organised by Noos Interactive Television in France, and a tidy sum in prize money. The chain reactions duly began: the head of design at the Royal Festival Hall sees TRANS-FORM and convinces his marketing department that FL@33 can do for classical music what they did for tower cranes, calls and commissions a series of artworks for the RFH’s Classical Music Campaign. TRANS-FORM is featured in Laurence King’s book GB: Graphic Britain and FL@33’s posters Pencil Eye and Butterfly Sculpture (designed for the occasion) are shown at the launch exhibition at Magma. Creative Review includes the posters in a feature on GB: Graphic Britain and asks FL@33 to design the cover to celebrate the D&AD’s 40th birthday. Montse and Marc of Magma see the posters and invite FL@33 to participate in the first edition of their magazine, Graphic. And MTV sees the Creative Review cover and calls to ask if they do moving image work (the resulting VH1 animations, some of which are shown here prior to launch, are due to air in the autumn). This is not to say that Jacquillat and Vollauschek clone their ideas and pass them from one client to another. Each piece of work is often unrecognisable in style to the last – and the pair enjoy surprising their clients. Montse and Marc might have been expecting pencils, “but we wanted to show a different area and we wanted to make photography,” Jacquillat says. “It’s nice to leave the computer once in a while.” “We’d just come back from Budapest with a huge series of photos,” Vollauschek adds. “And it came directly after some animation work, which was all on computer.” The animation was 335 frames of ASCII for architect Will Alsop, who had seen TRANS-FORM and invited them to take part in an exhibition he was curating at the 2003 Bienal de Valencia. Projects and works also develop as relationships with clients develop. FL@33 has been working with French mattress company, Matelsom, since 2001. “At the beginning we were just asked to make one poster,” Vollauschek says. “We said ‘why don’t you make two? Then it would be a campaign,’ but there wasn’t the budget. So we developed a concept that worked with one but that would have been better with two – and in the end they made two. And the next year they said, ‘now we are going to make four’.” The posters are on every Paris Metro train for the next year. As well as going on to design Matelsom’s website, logo and typeface, FL@33 also created a series of business cards for the company’s employees. These include a picture of each person’s favourite sleeping position, and resulted in another little chain reaction: a survey on the Matelsom website to find the favourite sleeping position in France. “We’ll find out the result in a couple of months,” Vollauschek says. Even though the pair work with a large array of different formats – everything from Director and Flash animations to photography, to typography, to drawings or graphics, to scissors and paper – the work and ideas are never burdened by their final format, but liberated by it. FL@33 are the masters not the servants of their machinery, as is suggested by Vollauschek’s earlier comment about the format being chosen last. They develop all concepts together, and then the ‘formatting’ tasks are divided: “At some point we had to decide who’s doing all the html stuff”,” Vollauschek begins, “And as I’d come to the RCA to learn how to make websites, that was me,” Jacquillat interjects. Vollauschek returns: “And if it’s more illustrative, in terms of hand-made, it’s Agathe’s work, and if it’s slightly more techy in terms of animation, then it’s mine. So I do all the timelines,” he smiles. “Sometimes we have to really specialise within the team but other times we do similar work and have similar strengths.” “And then it depends how much time we have,” Jacquillat says. Last year they found time to launch bzzzpeek.com, their onomatopoeic online experiment. “It started about two years ago when we began to write down sounds that we remembered from our childhood,” Vollauschek explains. Jacquillat adds: “Tomi’s Austrian and I’m French and we’d see a rooster: in French the rooster goes ‘cocorico’, and in German ‘kickeriki’”. And the English version is completely surreal The website is made up of line-drawn animals. You click on one, and then click again on the various country flags to hear the onomatopoeic sound representing them in various languages (13 so far). “The snake’s sound is quite amusing,” Vollauschek comments. “In Japanese it’s something really weird.” “It was friends of family first, then their friends who contributed sounds,” Jacquillat explains. “Then I started asking local people if they knew any children..,” she laughs. “We ended up in a hotel in Victoria and the Indian woman at reception called some friends in Pakistan and this little boy did a recording for us.” With no more spare time to promote the site, they sent it off to a couple of competitions (including Ars Electronica in Austria, which awarded it an Honorary Mention, and the ADCNY, which gave it a Distinctive Merit Award) and portals like DesignIsKinky. The site averages roughly 2000 unique visitors a day (after peaking at 10 000). “We’ve had a good response from educational establishments asking if they can use the application, because the website is designed to be used by everybody – for kids as well. So once they are in the application, they should be able to use the menu icons to help them find the sounds. And we’ve seen kids of two and three using it,” Vollauschek says. October looks to be another busy month for the pair. Their own website, which they have not had time to update since the company’s early days, is due to re-launch and will include a comprehensive archive of work. They are also participants in a book, Romantik, which is due to be published this month by Die Gestalten Verlag, and which has meant another short break from the computer and more illustrative work from Jacquillat and filmed work by Vollauschek. As well as working on their latest self-initiated project, a book of their own work (for which they are seeking a publisher), there are deadlines for clients, too, including a website for French furniture company, meubles.com. I wondered which of their international clients were the strictest when it came to keeping to deadlines. “I’d say it was between Germany and France,” Jacquillat decides. “It’s a cliché, but I’d say that the Germans are the strictest,” Vollauschek agrees. “I’m not sure about the towel story but the deadline thing’s right.” +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++       page   | april 2003   | antje dohmann   | pp.38-40   | gestaltung   | voll ausgeruht   | Für den französischen Matratzen-, Bett-und Sofalieferanten Matelsom entwickelte das Londoner Studio FL@33 die gesamte Corporate Identity. Ganz frisch sind vor allem die Posterkampagne, das Logo und die darauf basierende Hausschrift. Ein Gähnen kaum unterdrücken kann man beim Anblick der Matelsom-Plakatkampagne. Nicht etwa,weil sie langweilig wäre, ganz im Gegenteil: Die Poster sehen so nett aus, dass man sich am liebsten sofort auf einer der dargestellten Schlafstätten betten und ein kleines Nickerchen halten möchte. Jedes der vier Motive, die für ein Jahr in der Pariser Metro hängen, präsentiert einen Teil des Produktspektrums sowie die angepeilte Zielgruppe. So soll der Teenie mit den Kuscheltieren die ganz jungen Matelsom-Kunden respektive deren Eltern ansprechen. Der Student leistet sich zwar ein Sofa, dieses muss aber zugleich auch als Bett fungieren. Dem Pärchen, das die erste gemeinsame Wohnung bezieht und sich dabei von seinen alten Matratzen trennt, ist das Love Pack zu empfehlen, und dann gibt es noch eine gediegene Variante für ältere Herrschaften. Als Tomi Vollauschek und Agathe Jacquillat, die in London das Grafikdesignstudio FL@33 betreiben, vor rund anderthalb Jahren Matelsom als Kunden gewannen, war dessen Werbung sehr aggressiv - auch das Logo erachteten die beiden einer Überarbeitung wert. „Wir wollten der visuellen Sprache mehr Eleganz verleihen“, sagt Tomi Vollauschek. Auch wenn die Verantwortlichen sich zunächst noch etwas schwer taten, inzwischen ist das Designbewusstsein in dem Unternehmen deutlich gestiegen. In einem zweiten Schritt folgte die Implementierung des neuen Logos, das keinerlei Ähnlichkeit mehr mit dem alten aufweist. Darauf aufbauend entwickelte FL@33 die Hausschrift - eine abgewandelte Variante der DIN, die nicht nur auf den Postern und in den Anzeigen, sondern darüber hinaus in der gesamten Korrespondenz des Unternehmens zum Einsatz kommt. Reale Shops gibt es bei Matelsom nicht. Die Kunden bestellen und informieren sich über die Website - deren Design stammt ebenfalls von FL@33 - oder telefonisch. Dabei expandiert das Unternehmen gewaltig, und das, obwohl es in der Branche nicht gerade üblich ist, Matratzen, Betten und Sofas ausschließlich übers Internet anzubieten - schließlich will man erst mal ausprobieren, worauf man dann später schläft. Aber bei Matelsom gekaufte Matratzen dürfen 15 Tage lang getestet und gegebenenfalls zurückgeschickt werden. „Matelsom ist ein wirklich guter Kunde“, sagt Tomi Vollauschek, der sogar eigens einen Französischkurs belegt hat. „Der Job macht Spaß, und außerdem gibt er uns die finanzielle Freiheit, auch an anderen, nicht kommerziellen Projekten zu arbeiten.“ Eins davon ist die großformatige Zeitschrift „Trans-Form “ ((siehe PAGE 01.2002, Seite 17), ein anderes - für Groß und Klein äußerst reizvolles - ist die von FL@33 initiierte Site www.bzzzpeek.com, die Laute - vor allem von Tieren - in den verschiedenen Sprachen miteinander vergleicht. So kann man erfahren, wie ein ungarischer Frosch quakt oder wie Pferde auf Spanisch wiehern. Dreizehn Sprachen sind dort inzwischen vertreten -und Zusendungen sind erwünscht. Derlei Projekte sind den beiden Designern sehr wichtig, um ihre Ideen auszuleben und als Abwechslung zu anstrengenden Jobs. Zu diesen gehört wohl auch die monatliche Überprüfung und Suche nach automatisierten Fehlern der dynamischen Matelsom-Website, die rund 5000 Produkte anbietet. Wer beim Lesen dieses Textes und dem Betrachten der Sofas und Betten noch immer nicht von Müdigkeit übermannt wurde, dem sei der Genuss der Matelsom-CD empfohlen. Eine Reihe von Tracks mit Panflötenmusik finden sich auf dem Give-away - unverzügliches Einschlafen garantiert. (ant) [img: poster 'student' 2003] Jedes der Poster zeigt eine andere Zielgruppe an - hier den Studenten, dessen Sofa auch als Bett fungieren muss [img: poster 'love pack' 2003] Für Pärchen, die mit ihrer alten Wohnung auch die alten Matratzen ad acta legen, ist das Love Pack gedacht [img: poster 'relaxation' 2003] Das Produkt steht bei Matelsom stets im Mittelpunkt, die Menschen sind anonym, gesichtslos - wie diese ältere Dame [img: poster 'teeny' 2003] An ganz junge Leute, die vielleicht soeben ihr erstes eigenes Zimmer beziehen, wendet sich dieses Motiv [img: banner sequence 'jumping'] Matelsom verkauft nicht nur übers Internet, das französische Unternehmen wirbt dort auch für seine Produkte [img: matelsom website] Rund 5000 Produkte bietet die von FL@33 gestaltete Website an - keine leichte Aufgabe, das visuell ansprechend darzustellen [img: portraits] Die Französin Agathe Jacquillat und der Österreicher Tomi Vollauschek lernten sich am Londoner Royal College of Art kennen. Im Sommer 2001 gründeten sie ihr im Londoner Stadtteil Notting Hill ansässiges Büro FL@33 (www.flat33.com) [img: matelsom stationery] FL@33 entwickelte für Matelsom auch Visitenkarten. Jedem Mitarbeiter ordneten die Designer zwei Schlafpositionen zu - und trafen meist ins Schwarze, wie sich in späteren Gesprächen herausstellte [img: logo + housefont] Das von Agathe Jacquillat u