July 3rd, 2009 HAPPY BIRTHDAY FL@33! We are 8!
We are celebrating our eighth anniversary this month and to kick-start our activities we have a very special offer in place over at our online boutique stereohype.com.

Get your hands on FL@33 goodies with a whopping 33% reduction on all orders over £33. There are lots of T-shirts, books (including our FL@33 monograph) and badges designed by FL@33 or others. There is also our (signed) trans-form magazine and other goodies to choose from. All orders over £33 that include any FL@33 product(s) will also receive a very rare white FL@33 pencil and we will randomly choose one customer this month who will receive a free (and sold out) FL@33-designed and signed Mr Papillon kit cat qee. The 33% will automatically be deducted during checkout (no code necessary). Thanks 8)

July 2nd, 2009
We updated our work archive in the last days so please have a look at our recent projects including our brandnew website madeandsold.com and previews of Made & Sold itself – the second book we conceived, compiled, wrote and designed (Laurence King, October 2009). We also added previews of RotoVision's forthcoming book The Graphic Eye: Photographs by International Graphic Designers that will feature a FL@33 photograph on the front cover. Also added were a forthcoming Badge Button Pin release System Error, the 2009 version of mmm-festival.org – a music festival are developing the entire visual identity and campaign for, more FL@33 photographs – many of them previously unpublished – plus pictures of the private view to the fundraising Type Tart Project – including our Naughty Helvetica contribution of course.

There are quite a few books in the pipeline that are due to be published or where recently released (and we didn't receive our complimentary copies yet). Until they are here and/or out do have a look please at the coming soon area within our press section. In our magazines, etc archive we have now also our two latest additions: this month's Grafik magazine and last month's 85th anniversary issue of Novum magazine.


June 29th, 2009
We received our copy of the freshly redesigned Grafik magazine that features in their Viewpoint section our reply to this month's question – 'Do you need to be able to draw to be a designer?'. We will add it to our press section with our next update.

In other news: We heard from Stefan G. Bucher this weekend who is the author and designer of a forthcoming book we will be featured in – entitled The Graphic Eye: Photographs by International Graphic Designers (RotoVision/Chronicle). He told us that one of our photographs made it onto the front cover of the book's paperback edition that will be releasd in September 2009. The picture was taken by us in a beautifully surreal parking lot in the heart of Paris. We'll post this and more FL@33 photographs soon here at flat33.com.

June 26th, 2009
We resisted long enough i think... and are now finally twittering like the rest of the world seems to do via twitter.com/graphicflow. @graphicflow will be a flow of graphic news from FL@33 and our Stereohype activities and will therefore include call for entries to our books and competitions, exhibitions, etc. We will also finally have a chance to twitter about some of the great websites and goodies we come across all the time that – until now – could not be featured on any of our sites. So please join us and let our twittering begin (just give us a few days to convince some of our hundreds of subscribers to actually become twitter followers, too...). We have one follower already – that's a decent start... 8)

June 25th, 2009
We just launched madeandsold.com – the dedicated website for our forthcoming book Made & Sold (Laurence King Publishing, worldwide release: October 2009).

June 24th, 2009
It's the private view tonight of the fundraising Type Tart Card project we took part in. See you later in London's KK Outlet. We'll post a few snapshots soon...

June 12th, 2009
We were invited earlier this year to contribute a piece to the Type Tart Card Project organised by Wallpaper* magazine, Type and London’s St Bride Library.

All 450 received entries can be viewed at wallpaper.com where you can also find more info on tart cards in general – in case you are not familiar with the term. The entire collection will also be on display at KK Outlet, London from 22nd to 29th June to coincide with Wallpaper’s first ever Sex Issue, in collaboration with Peter Saville. After which all Type Tart Cards – including FL@33’s card – will be auctioned and proceeds donated to the St Bride Library.

June 2nd, 2009
Last weekend – while reading the feature article of this month's 85th anniversary issue of German graphic design magazine Novum – I almost spilled my entire tea over the spread when I stumbled over a FL@33 illustration. It was apparently chosen by the magazine to be part of a small selection of visuals attempting to illustrate the last 10 years of graphic design (featured either inside or on the cover of Novum during the first decade of our century). Thank you very much to the Novum team for that and happy birthday! 8)

The selected 33 street typeface illustration was once before featured in Novum when they ran an 8-page FL@33 profile a few years ago. We also created the issue's cover at the time.

May 13th, 2009
Our online portfolio now also includes a few preview sample spreads and the jacket design of the forthcoming FL@33 book Made & Sold: Toys, T-shirts, Prints, Zines and Other Stuff. It is the second major publication conceived, compiled, written and designed by FL@33. The book is currently being printed and will be published worldwide by Laurence King in October 2009.

We are currently working on a dedicated website for the book that will be launched before the book hits the shelves in autumn. The website will feature additional info, previews, a complete list of contributors etc.

In the meantime you are of course more than welcome to visit the dedicated website postcard-book.info that was launched to promote our Postcard book.

May 7th, 2009
We updated the pictures of two recent projects today – book jacket designs for Laurence King's brandnew paperback editions of Wood Architecture and Stone Architecture and a few first pictures of the ongoing print campaign for the 2009 edition of the MMM Festival in Switzerland.

We also updated our press section that now includes the latest list of forthcoming books FL@33 is involved in and articles and mentions in recent editions of Computer Arts, Digital Arts and Geo Saison Extra/Brigitte Special.

April 22nd, 2009
We have been working on two big book projects in the last 12 months or so – both to be published internationally by Laurence King. One of them is called Cult Streetwear and is designed by FL@33 and written by Josh Sims. It will be released in spring 2010. We are allowed to post Cult Streetwear previews from October 2009 onwards.

The other book was finished a couple of weeks ago and is currently being printed – ready for a worldwide release in October. It is the second book conceived, compiled, written and designed by FL@33 and is entitled Made & Sold: Toys, T-shirts, Prints, Zines and Other Stuff. Made & Sold features exciting products by graphic designers, illustrators and artists from around the world. All selected items were produced by very passionate creators who produced their items as part of their very own sideline activities – while earning a living with visual communication rather than product design. Products we feature in our book include toys, badges, prints and canvases, books, mags and zines, fonts, typographic 3D products, furniture, bags, T-shirts, jewellery, etc. A dedicated website will soon be launched.

See details on our first book Postcard that was released a few months ago.

April 21st, 2009
Winners were announced today of this year's button badge design competition over at our sister-company's website stereohype.com. Have a look – the 20 winning designs are great! Congrats again to everybody on the shortlist! 8)

March 5th, 2009
We just received our copy of the brandnew issue of Geo Saison Extra (03/2009) that is currently hitting the shelves. It includes 'Kra-Kra, Ich bin ein Italo-Frosch' – a small 1/2 page website tip/article on our popular online sound collection bzzzpeek.com. The issue entitled 'Reisen mit Kindern 2009' (Travel with kids) was exceptionally co-edited and co-published with German lifestyle magazine Brigitte who also released the exact same issue but with their own cover. We will post details soon. In the meantime you can visit geo.de where they have also posted a few bzzzpeek.com excerpts.

February 20th, 2009
This month's Computer Arts magazine (159) features an article called 'Online outlets' that contains excerpts from an interview journalist Sean Ashcroft conducted with FL@33 a while ago discussing our Stereohype boutique. The article also plugged our forthcoming book Made & Sold (Laurence King Publishing) that will be released worldwide later this year. We haven't actually seen the March issue of Computer Arts yet but it is about to hit the shelves of your favourite newsstand. We will post previews as soon as we get our copy. In the meantime you can visit computerarts.co.uk for details.

February 16th, 2009
The deadline for the 5th annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition was extended earlier today. There is now time to submit until tomorrow, Wednesday night (11.59pm / 23:59, London GMT), 18th February 2009. We and the rest of this year's international judging panel look very much forward to receiving your design gems. Submission guidelines and design templates etc are here: stereohype.com. THANKS!

January 23rd, 2009
We have added plenty of projects, publications and exhibitions to flat33.com in the last days and we hope you enjoy them. Latest additions include a website we created for Weeks & Cowling as part of the visual identity we developed and postcard-book.info  – the dedicated website for the recently released book Postcard that was conceived, compiled, written and designed by FL@33. We also added the print campaign 2008 and the 2009 poster-brochure (currently being printed) we created for swiss MMM- Festival. The festival T-shirts and the 2008 version of their website (the new one will go live before the summer) were also added. You can also find previews of book covers for the forthcoming paperback editions of Laurence King Publishing's Architecture Series, our contributions to Stereohype's B.I.O. button badge series 7, an artwork for art zine Good vs Evil, postcards for  RCA Secret 2008, a customised Havana Club bottle for the exhibition 100 Pieces of Havana and pictures of the Sweatshop T-shirt event that took place in summer 2008 as part of the first Graphic Design Festival Breda in the Netherlands.

In addition to projects and exhiibitions we have also updated our press section now also featuring a Postcard book review in the December issue of German  Page magazine, a 12-page FL@33 profile in Indonesian magazine Babyboss, a Creative Review article on the 100 Pieces of Havana show including pictures of our bottle. We also added the following books we are featured in: Art & Sole – contemporary Sneaker Art & Design, Great British Editorial, Around Europe: Promotion and we also updated some of the pictures from our Postcard book.

Previews of our next book entitled Made & Sold – Products by Graphic Designers, Illustrators and Artists will soon also be posted. The book is almost finished and will be published later this year in October by Laurence King Publishing.

January 16th, 2009
Call for entries! Last month we launched the 5th annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition. We and the rest of this year's international judging panel look very much forward to receiving lovely, humorous and/or witty submissions for those cute little mobile canvases by 16th February, 2009. Please find the submission guidelines and design templates etc over at stereohype.com. THANKS!

January 6th, 2009
We wish you a happy, healthy and creative 2009!

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