December 15th, 2006 **********************
We wish you a merry xmas and a happy, healthy and creative 2007! •<(:-)

November 30th, 2006
Our design initiative B.I.O. (By Invitation Only) button badge series over at stereohype.com is going in its 5th round. Series 5 includes artworks by our new selection of hand-picked designers, illustrators and artists from around the world: Andy Smith, Birgit Simons, Darren Firth @ Wearitwithpride (WIWP), ÉricandMarie, Holger Klein @ Geat_, Gonzague aka Alexandre Leonard-Dalissier, Kerstin Hlava-Landeck, Samantha (Manti) Bohatsch @ Less Rain, Lotie, Lisa Olausson @ Medium, Richard Kirk @ onepom, Rachel Pfleger, Anne & Alex @ Rude & Rusitschka, Ronald Wisse @ Visualdata and we did of course create some more FL@33 badges too. [launch stereohype.com for series 5]

November 24th, 2006
Now at the newsstand: computer arts project magazine, issue 91 with its attached digital artist showcase 'new masters of digital art, vol.1' featuring FL@33 besides others. Soon to be added to our press section.

November 16th, 2006
We have been reinvited by the royal collage of art to create postcards for this year's rca secret fundraising sale and exhibition which opens tomorrow. See last year's FL@33 contribution here.

November 5th, 2006
The taiwan-based design magazine 'dpi' currently features a 10-page FL@33 profile with interview in their issue number 91 entitled 'new london, new design'. [mydpi.com.tw]

October 5th, 2006
Call for submissions! Following the huge success of our 2004 and 2005 design competitions we are now pleased to announce this year’s 1" (25mm) [stereohype.com button badge design competition 2006]. No entry fee! Deadline to create and submit lovely, humorous and/or witty artworks for those cute little mobile canvases is Friday, 24th November 2006. Good luck! 8)

Today we have also launched the new 300% cotton / make / love t-shirt over at stereohype.com which was produced as part of the collaboration between laurence king publishing, stereohype.com and FL@33. For more details on the forthcoming FL@33-designed book 300% cotton – more t-shirt graphics by helen walters please click here. The book will hit the shelves of your favourite design bookshop very soon. In the meantime we will be adding more previews of the book as we have received an advance copy the other day... 8)

The lovely people from computer arts, poland [cgs.net.pl] have kindly sent us a couple of complimentary copies of our FL@33 profile which was first published in the uk in july and is currently featured in the polish version of the magazine [09/2006]. The chinese version also seems to be out now [computerarts.com.cn]. Let's see whether we can get our hands on a copy or two...

September 22nd, 2006
The current issue of the quarterly chinese graphic design magazine 'new graphic' features a 12-page FL@33 profile. We received our complimentary archive copies today and will add the article very soon to our press section.

September 20th, 2006
We just received our monthly copy of novum magazine – world of graphic design [10/06] which – to our surprise – features a full page article on stereohype.com and our design initiative B.I.O. (by invitation only) button badge series.

September 15th, 2006
Apart from our contributions to the book tattoo icons – victionary 3 we also added previews to our work archive of the recently finished FL@33-designed laurence king publication patterns – new surface design by drusilla cole which is due to be published in spring 2007.

FL@33 and french antoine + manuel were teamed up to create portraits of each other for the forthcoming wear it with pride [wiwp] book/exhibition project entitled two faced – (approx. 100) 'portaits of some of the most talented and influential creatives of the last decade'. The book will be published by idN. We also received our portrait created by antoine + manuel – a funny hand-drawn illustration which we will definitely have to post here at flat33.com once the book is released...

September 14th, 2006
The press section now includes the recent full page article in étapes magazine 134 on our B.I.O. (by invitation only) button badge series, the toy2r bunny qee postcard book 2, the index book publication dna identity featuring the website design and visual identity of stereohype - graphic art and fashion boutique and last but not least did we receive our copy of yet another amazing publication by hong kong-based victionary entitled tattoo icons – victionary 3 which came in a limited edition red plastic slipcase with attached temporary tattoo stickers. Nice! 8)

September 8th, 2006
Some of our illustrations we created earlier this year for 'the big ask' climate change campaign by friends of the earth are featured in the MTV europe documentary 'making the movie – an inconvenient truth' by former vice president of the usa al gore (MTV uk, friday, september 8th, 7pm and september 10th, 3pm).

July 12th, 2006
The press section was updated today. New additions include the two latest FL@33 profiles published in japanese +81 magazine [plus eighty one] and last month's computer arts mag [124].

July 1st, 2006 ***** HAPPY BIRTHDAY FL@33!
We're celebrating our 5th anniversary today and would like to thank you all for your continuing interest and support!
We temporarily knocked off the price of our award-winning trans-form magazine and 33 copies are now available over at stereohype.com for only £9.95 (instead of £19.95)...
SORRY - ALL 33 REDUCED MAGS ARE GONE NOW!

June 13th, 2006
We finally managed to finish the biggest flat33.com update since we launched the site. 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.

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 curated by the sacramento art directors and artists club is now open to the public until july 14th, 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 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!

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