December 23rd, 2008 **********************
We wish you a merry xmas and a happy, healthy and creative 2009! •<(:-)

November 28th, 2008
Oh dear – oh dear – we sure did neglect this website for a few months. We've been really busy beside other projects with writing, editing and designing our second major book – Made & Sold – that will be released by Laurence King Publishing in 2009.

There sure are many projects we need to add to our online showcase but until we do so here a few brief newsflashs:

We just released the seventh Stereohype series from our ongoing B.I.O. (by invitation only) button badge initiative. B.I.O.7 also includes FL@33 goodies of course.
Also at Stereohype: the fifth annual button badge design competition is now open to the public and we look forward to receiving submissions by 16th February 2009.

We have had quite a bit of press in the last months but would like to highlight two for the time being: we contributed work to the second issue of art zine Good vs. Evil and its current theme Man vs. Animal – but hurry – only 100 copies available! Also noteworthy is a 2/3 page review in German Page magazine of our POSTCARD book that was released only a couple of months ago. See www.postcard-book.info – the dedicated website where you can find excerpts and previews.

September 23th, 2008
We knew something was up yesterday. Our server acted up suspiciously and today we had a few minutes to find out what happened. Turns out that our award-winning sound collection bzzzpeek.com is experiencing a new wave of popularity and we are over the moon. Yesterday alone we had an additional 7500 unique bzzzpeek.com visitors to the usually about 2000. No wonder our server was smoking at an additional 4 gigabyte bandwidth in one day generated by 1,295,359 hits. A big THANK YOU to the nice guys over at VSL – veryshortlist.com who featured our project yesterday and another big THANK YOU to everybody who has been in touch since yesterday with suggestions and encouraging messages. We will be replying to every single one – even though this will probably take a few days...

September 19th, 2008
We received our advance copies of POSTCARD – a book compiled, written and designed by FL@33 – a few days ago including the original English edition (Laurence King) but also the German, French and Spanish ones (DuMont, Pyramyd and Gustavo Gili respectively). Postcard, Cartes Postales or Postales as the Spanish called it will hit the international book shelves in a few days. We are very excited and can't wait to have a few first reactions on the book. The book can already be pre-ordered and links to shops but also excerpts and previews can be found over at www.postcard-book.info – the dedicated website we recently launched.

September 10th, 2008
We would like to thank all those designers and artists out there who submitted their great work to our second major book project: Made and Sold. The official deadline for submissions has now passed and the selection process is in full swing. Selected individuals, studios and collectives will be notified in the next couple of months.

August 22nd, 2008
We are currently sourcing material for our new book Made and Sold: Graphic Designer's Sidelines (working title) to be published worldwide in 2009 by Laurence King Publishing. Please find info and submission guidelines over at stereohype.com. Extended deadline: September 1st, 2008
Thanks so much for all the amazing submissions we received already!

July 23rd, 2008
Our contribution to 100 pieces of Havana is featured in this month's Creative Review as part of an overall project presentation spread. The FL@33 bottle will be on display at the exhibition that opens its door later today. Details on the exhibition can be found just one news entry below.

July 17th, 2008
We were invited to create 1% of 100 pieces of Havana – a one-off exhibition held in London 'showcasing some of today's finest artistic talent'. The inspiration for this project is the Havana Club Especial bottle, and contributors were invited to interpret the bottle in any way they like.

We will post pictures of our piece soon. In the meantime please visit the ycn website where you can find exhibition details and a list of all 100 contributors. 100 pieces of Havana will open its doors on 23rd July in London's Dray Walk Gallery, Dray Walk (Off Brick Lane) and will run for 100 hours only.

July 14th, 2008
We launched the dedicated website postcard-book.info earlier today where you can find information and previews of our forthcoming book Postcard – and its foreign language editions – which will be released worldwide later this year.

A new exciting book is also in the pipeline so please feel free to sign up to our newsletter before we send out the next call for entries. Please join the FL@33 mailing list for updates.

July 7th, 2008
mmm-festival.org – the website for the forthcoming
MMM-Festival in Switzerland was launched earlier today. We developed the visual identity and campaign for the festival. Previews including T-shirts, posters, postcards, etc will be posted here very soon.

June 8th, 2008
Now at the newsstand: Grafik magazine (#163). Have a look at this month's viewpoint section... 8)

May 27th, 2008
Massive flat33.com update! During the last weeks we have gradually prepared hundreds of pictures and texts of plenty of projects we created in the last 12 months or so. Many more will also be finalised in the coming months and will also be posted soon. Have a look at our work archive where you will now find plenty of new and recent projects including: Two campaigns – Love Recycling/Waste and Biofuel/Things are not what they seem – for Friends of the Earth, identity – logo, logo animation, stationery – for Weeks & Cowling, another identity – logo, stationery – for Arts Affaires, a logo for the MMM-Festival, identity – illustration, website, logo – for The Tuning Company, editorial work for Arts Affaires' newsletter / brochure, Estampados – the Spanish version of the Patterns book cover we designed, our customised 8" Bart Simpson for Toy2r and last but not least updates of Postcard (and its packaging) – our very own book project which will be published worldwide in September 2008.

We also added FL@33 interviews, features, mentions and profiles published in magazines and books since July 2007 – including: Digital Arts, Grids, Artrocker magazine, Young European Graphic Designers, Logo, The Layout Book, Design in Europe, Tactile, Computer Arts, Badge/Button/Pin,...

May 23rd, 2008
Tonight the doors of the brandnew Graphic Design Festival Breda (GDFB) are opening in the Netherlands. During the next five weeks GDFB is presenting various forms of graphic design in the public space, exhibitions, workshops and lectures. We were invited to contribute our very own (sweatshop-free) Stereohype T-shirt range to an exciting group exhibition on T-shirts from around the world. The exhibition is called Sweatshop and was curated by Dutch designers KOP and Staynice. The festival will be open to the public until Sunday, 29th June, 2008.

April 2nd, 2008
Now at the newsstand: Digital Arts magazine, May 2008, with FL@33 works and interview fragments in the feature article 'Sell Your Designs' – which talks about our stereohype.com activities and more. Snapshots and texts will be added with our forthcoming update of our 'press' section and 'work archive'. [digitalartsonline.co.uk]

March 31st, 2008
The University of Lincoln kindly asked us to take part in their incredibly popular Design Auction they recently launched. It was organised to raise funds for the Lincoln School of Art & Design 3rd year Graphic Design Degree Show. We contributed a FL@33 bundle with postcards and lots of individually signed goodies (trans-form magazine, our monograph and all 24 button badges we ever created for stereohype.com). Have a look at the amazing gems that have been contributed already and don't hesitate to bid if you want to get your hands on some of them – that's what it's all about... [designauction.co.uk]

March 20th, 2008
The winners and runner-ups of the 4th button badge design competition over at our sister company stereohype.com were announced earlier today. FL@33 was of course part of the judging panel but we hopefully had help from another 24 judges – journalists and designers from around the world. The winning badges are now available. Congratulations again to all the winners and runner-ups! Have a look... 8)

February 27th, 2008
We got the official green light today to announce that Postcard – our forthcoming book we compiled, edited and wrote will not only be published in English by Laurence King Publishing here in the UK and in the US by their American partner publisher Chronicle Books but will also be released in French by Pyramyd Editions and in Spanish by Gustavo Gili. The latest addition to this growing list is the German DuMont – Literatur und Kunst Verlag. Postcard will be released later this year and will feature 800 exciting postcards and postcard-related projects by over 130 individuals and studios from around the world.
Please join the FL@33 mailing list for updates.

February 18th, 2008
The 4th one inch (25mm) Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition (2007/08) is now closed and winners will be announced shortly. This year's figures: 517 accepted entries from 203 individuals/studios! 8)
Please join the stereohype.com mailing list for updates on this and forthcoming competitions.

January 31st, 2008
Call for entries: New extended deadline for the 4th one inch (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 now Tuesday, 5th Febuary, 2008 (11.59pm/23:59, GMT). Please visit stereohype.com for details, artwork guidelines and photoshop templates.

January 30th, 2008
We received our copy today of an interesting new book by Rotovision entitled Grids – Creative solutions for graphic designers – which we had to add to the scary pile of things we have to photograph soon for our flat33.com press section.... We got a decent 10 pages in Grids where samples are featured from the FL@33-designed 200% and 300% Cotton t-shirt books and also from Patterns – new surface design.

January 21st, 2008
London's Artrocker magazine (issue 74) is featuring a few of our stereohype.com button badges (from B.I.O. – by invitation only – button badge series 5) in this months' fashion section. A clipping will be added with our forthcoming flat33.com press update which will also include lots of recently released books.

January 7th, 2008
We posted previews today of Postcard – a book compiled, edited, written and designed by FL@33. There are also a few pictures of its intriguing packaging.

January 4th, 2008
We'll post previews very soon of Postcard – a book compiled, edited, written and designed in 2007 by FL@33. It features exciting work by over 130 hand-picked individuals and studios from around the world. Postcard is currently being translated into several foreign languages and will be released in September 2008 by Laurence King Publishing in English. Foreign language editions will also be released by their international partner publishers. We'll set up a dedicated microsite soon which will feature additional information on the book.

January 3rd, 2008
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.

January 2nd, 2008
We wish you a happy, healthy and creative 2008!

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