December 19th, 2007 **********************
We wish you a merry xmas and a happy, healthy and creative 2008! •<(:-)

December 10th, 2007
Call for entries! Following the huge success of our annual design competitions 2004–06 we are now pleased to announce the 4th 1" (25mm) Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition (2007/08). Deadline to create and submit lovely, humorous and/or witty artworks for those cute little mobile canvases is Thursday, 31st January, 2008 (midnight, GMT). Please visit stereohype.com for details, artwork guidelines and photoshop templates.

December 7th, 2007
This winter we received plenty of new books featuring our work. We will post previews in our press section soon. Books include 'the layout book', 'logo', 'tactile', 'young european graphic designers' and 'design in europe 2007/8'.

November 21st, 2007
The nice people over at theserif.net have posted a FL@33/Stereohype mention. Thanks!

October 1st, 2007
The current 'inspiration issue' of computer arts magazine 141 is featuring our trans-form magazine in their supplement 'a book of inspiration' besides other selected designers and illustrators. The unedited interview will be posted soon.

September 21st, 2007
FL@33 is currently featured in the 'spotlight' section of the Adobe Insider newsletter [Sept. '07] sent to the creative industry around the world. [You can subscribe at adobeinsider.co.uk]

September 20th, 2007
We received our complimentary contributor's copy today of the new book 'I love buttons/chapas' by spanish Monsa Publishing [bi-lingual, english and spanish]. It features on a whopping 25 pages hundreds of button badges we commissioned for our online boutique Stereohype.com! 'I love badges/chapas' is unfortunately not as thorough and well designed as the brilliant Badge / Button / Pin book by Gavin Lucas/Intercity but 25 pages (12 of them full pages, plus flaps and back cover) is a new record for a showcase book. Pictures will be posted with our forthcoming site update.

September 19th, 2007
The Postcards book we are currently compiling, editing and designing is coming along fine and we will soon be able to show you a few previews. We receive lots of emails these days from individuals and studios who have submitted their card designs for consideration. Please rest assured that we will send notifications to all designers who made it into the book as soon as we have finalised the selection process.

Two visual identities we are currently working on will soon also be finished and pictures will be posted as soon as both sets of stationeries and websites are ready to go.

Oh – and we were invited a few months ago to customise another figure for hong kong-based Toy2r. This time it was a 10" sized Bart Simpson toy – and we were extremely happy to play with one of our favourite television characters. Our Bart figure got a lot of accessories such as one of our as seen on tv badges, a piece of chalk and a complete list in the other hand with all messages he ever had to write in his after school sessions. The toy was part of a travelling group exhbition across the globe. See pictures at toy2r.com. Again: pictures will soon be posted here.

August 20th, 2007
Hitspaper kindly invited us to be part of its bi-lingual interview series (japanese and english). The FL@33 interview by Arata Sasaki is now online over at hitspaper.com.

July 10th, 2007
Thank you all so much for your great postcards and postcard-related projects. Please do keep on sending us your goodies until the new extended deadline! We will already start in the meantime to check every single entry to get the selection process up and running and will also reply to all the emails we received regarding upload confirmations and other questions about this book project.
We have received so many phone calls and emails asking for a bit more time that we decided to extend the deadline to: MONDAY, 16TH JULY! Hope this helps a little. 8)

July 1st, 2007
Happy birthday FL@33! 6 years – ahhh – sweet! 8)

June 18th, 2007
CALL FOR ENTRIES: A BOOK OF POSTCARDS
We are currently compiling, editing and designing a book on the very best international postcards and postcard-related projects created since the year 2000. The book will be published by laurence king and will come with a really cool packaging containing 20 specially designed postcards by selected designers, illustrators, photographers and artists from around the world. No entry fee! We posted the submission guidelines earlier today over at stereohype.com. Please click here and read all the info if you are interested in the project. Thanks!
DEADLINE: TUESDAY, 10TH JULY, 2007

June 14th, 2007
We added some of the more recent projects and publications to flat33.com including: an illustration for computer arts project 98, button badges like our glow-in-the-dark contribution to B.I.O. (by invitation only) series 6, a specially designed badge for the limited edition version of the book badge/button/pin and a poster design for the recent button/badge/pin book launch exhibition featuring all 356 original stereohype.com button badges ever commissioned. We also added new pictures of the recently released FL@33-designed book patterns – new surface design, our contribution to the forthcoming my brand book and there are finally also pictures of the video projection for the reception area of altran's headquarter in paris.

There are quite a few additions and updates to our press section too – including recent articles in computer arts 133 and another one with pictures of projects in the june issue number 136, last month's creative review, the poster-art book, darren firth's two faced and the book new typographic design which features a previously unreleased typographic experiment.

May 24th, 2007
We got the green light a few days ago by laurence king publishing to not only design but for the very first time also compile and edit a book project we suggested a few months ago. A call for entries will soon be posted and newsletter subscribers of both stereohype.com and flat33.com will be notified. More info soon... 8) To receive our forthcoming newsletter please subscribe here.

In the meantime please be our friend at myspace.com/stereohypedotcom and myspace.com/flat33 where we will also post news on this and other exciting projects.

May 23rd, 2007
badge/button/pin is currently holding a book launch exhibition featuring all stereohype badges ever commissioned (of course including lots of FL@33 ones) and other beautiful badges and badge-related artworks from 17–30 May at exposure Gallery, Little Portland Street, London W1. The book and its special edition (with 10 real, especially designed badges embedded into the cover including one by FL@33) will be available at the end of june and can be pre-ordered over at stereohype.com. Until we post some pictures of the private view please visit the website of gavin lucas of creative review – the author of the book – for a view snapshots.

May 22nd, 2007
Computer arts magazine – issue 136 is currently featuring some of our more recent work and a view quotes from an interview as part of the feature article 'be the best!'.

We were also recently recommissioned by computer arts project to create an illustration for a 'pdf portfolio' feature of forthcoming issue 98. It will be released in a few days and we'll post pictures asap. In the meantime please see our lead illustration we did for computer arts project 85 last summer.

We got our hands on copies of a few more books such as patterns we recently designed for laurence king publishing and another LK book we feature in with lots of FL@33 projects entitled 'new typographic design'. We also received our copies of 'two faced' by darren firth @ WIWP and published by idn and the rotovision book poster-art – now available in all good book shops. Previews will soon be posted.

May 21st, 2007
We are currently preparing a rather big update with plenty of projects and lots of books and magazines FL@33 features in. In the meantime we would like to let you know that our sister company stereohype released a brandnew button badge series a few week ago. Selected international designers, illustrators and artists were once again invited to submit designs for this one inch (25mm) button badge series. Stereohype sells B.I.O. series 6 badges separately and gives them away as a free surprise badge with purchased T-shirts. The 'B.I.O. series 6' includes artworks by Andy Prince, Julien Rivoire @ Bastardgraphics, Carole Guevin @ Netdiver, Gianni Oprandi, Sebastian Onufszak @ In Graphics We Trust, Jean-Claude Chianale, Jo Taylor, Martin Lorenz @ Twopoints, Matt Siber @ Siberart, Nick Cannons @ Scuffdept, Pierre Vanni, Samuel Nyholm & Jonas Williamsson @ Reala, Alex Haigh @ Thinkdust, Jonathan Kenyon and John Glasgow @ Vault49, Mathies Møller Højmose @ Visual Flavour and glow in the dark badges by Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek @ FL@33.

April 12th, 2007
There are lots of interesting projects in the pipeline we can't even mention yet but we are currently finishing off several website designs, brochures, button badge designs (for forthcoming B.I.O. series 6) and a visual identity... We will soon also add to flat33.com pictures and quicktime previews of another project we recently finished. It's a stop motion animation featuring silhouettes of a vector dandelion we created for altran – 'a global partner in innovation', who are already projecting the final piece onto a huge glass screen in the reception area of their paris-based headquarters. Our press section will soon also be updated with plenty of magazines and design publications FL@33 features in.

In the meantime we would like to draw your attention to a special sale over at our very own graphic art and fashion boutique, stereohype.com, where you can currently get your hands on plenty of reduced FL@33-designed t-shirts, some of them are almost sold out. Sale ends at the end of april!

February 13th, 2007
We have been news editor at French 'N' Fresh for some time now who have today relaunched their website after merging with Nice To Meet You [ntmy.org] where we will continue to post FL@33, Stereohype and other news.

January 27th, 2007
OK – it's finally done! flat33.com got an overall touch-up!
Not only did we add lots of recent projects and press but we also improved the overall design of our website. So much so that we consider it to be a version 2.5! It's the biggest update since we launched flat33.com version 2 back in september 2003. We now have a clear colour code
[<-- see legend at the bottom of the menu] to clearly differenciate between internal links [example] and external ones [example] which open new browser windows or link to other websites. We also freed flat33.com from the 15" restriction at the bottom – so text can now flow in a way that 30" screen users for example might not even have to scroll at all [before that all texts were cropped at the bottom where 'external link' stands in the menu]. At the end of each caption you will now also find selected links to related projects and/or articles.

Hope you find browsing our site now even more enjoyable!

Apart from improving the design of this very website we added over 200 new pictures plus thumbnails of recent projects and publications – going back to june 2006. New projects include designs for a customized dalsouple rubber floor, new previews of the forthcoming book patterns – new surface design, new pictues of the recently released FL@33-designed book 300% cotton – more t-shirt graphics and the 300% promo t-shirts – a collaboration between laurence king publishing, FL@33 and stereohype.com.

Also new are pictures of the recently released B.I.O. (by invitation only) button badge series 5 , flyers and ads for the friends of the earth online shop launch and brandnew postcards for stereohype, FL@33 and the RCA secret fundraising exhibition 2006.

Speaking of exhibitions –'two faced: the changing face of portaiture' opened its doors in hong kong yesterday featuring – besides many other artworks of course – our antoine+manuel portrait [please see 'exhibitions' section for details]. We also added a few snapshots of the recent scrumptious event and also added plenty of recently published books and magazines featuring FL@33 work and interviews including tres logos, which features four FL@33-designed logos, computer arts project 91 – new masters of digital art, a stereohype/FL@33 feature in german novum magazine, a massive 10-page FL@33 profile in taiwan-based magazine dpi, vol 91, the long-awaited and finally released public address system – poster speeches by typographers and – if you speak chinese or simply enjoy looking at our work you can now finally download a newly added pdf version of the whopping 12-page FL@33 profile published by beijing-based magazine 'new graphic' [08] back in summer 2006. The nice people at computer arts give our recent stereohype button badge design competition and its winners a thumbs-up this month and congratulate them in the current february issue 132. Thanks guys! 8)

January 26th, 2007
Issue 2 of s.a.d. – seasonal affective design, winter 2006–07 was released today and features a little FL@33 interview. You can download a pdf version of the mag directly at [ seasonalaffectivedesign.com ]

January 18th, 2007
We were invited by the 'my brand' team to contribute a specially designed FL@33 artwork for their forthcoming book to be published this summer. We'll post our final work and news on this project in a few months...
See [my-brand.com ] for more details or see our coming soon area in the press section for other forthcoming publications.

January 17th, 2007
flat33.com is currently being updated. This is going to take a few days – so please stay tuned and refresh your browser window or empty your cache frequently to make sure you do indeed see the latest updates...

January 9th, 2007
We wish you a happy, healthy and creative 2007!

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