December 20th, 2011 **********************
We wish you happy holidays and a healthy and creative 2012! •<(:o)

December 15th, 2011
We finally managed to make a bit of time available for ourselves to start thinking about our overdue website redesign for flat33.com's v3. All we know at this stage is that it's going to be great. Easier to update, our complete archive, all with much larger images of course. It's finally going to be iPhone/iPad friendly, with larger type etc etc. The current version 2—even with all it's little tweaks over the years—was designed at a time when 15"/800 x 600px screen resolution was still the norm and 17" resolution was pushing it. Our comprehensive v2 has served us truly well for over 8 years but we can honestly not wait for the new website to be launched sometime in the new year... 8) Here a little snapshot of work in progress—tagging and categorising over 10 years worth of projects... Oh—how we would have loved to be able to launch v3 exactly 10 years after flat33.com v1—our very first studio site (you can still 'create the pop-up sculpture' there)... 8)

November 29th, 2011
Germany's ZDF TV channel broadcasted a short piece in their Morgenmagazin (breakfast show) earlier this week and again during a lunchtime bulletin yesterday—reporting on this year's RCA Secret postcard event. It's an 80 seconds piece (archived using flash) and at approx. 1min you can actually see one of Tomi's postcard contributions briefly (sky with yellow circle—card #902—next to Grayson Perry's card). A slightly longer edit of this piece can be seen here (35:15–37:50). There were over 2,900 postcards in this exhibition—what are the chances...? 8)

November 26th, 2011
This year's secrets were revealed at London's Royal College of Art a few days ago—including our FL@33 contributions to the 18th RCA Secret fundraising postcard sale. We contributed two sets of three postcards—Agathe's cards and Tomi's cards. You can find last years's FL@33 postcard contribution here and also all other previous ones in our flat33.com work archive.

November 17th, 2011
Now available at the newsstand and online—Grafik magazine 193. Our copies of the brandnew issue arrived today and feature a piece by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek in the magazine's popular Letterform section. Until we add the complete article to our archive here at flat33.com next month or so please find a preview snapshot here.

October 31st, 2011
German Page magazine featured the latest collaboration between our sister-company Stereohype and Habitat today. Habitat goes Button – Triumph des Button: FL@33 für Habitat.

Our recent offer is still valid by the way – if you happen to spot our badge sets in any Habitat store in Germany, UK, France or Spain. Please do email us snapshots and we'll send you a free button badge of your choice! 8)

October 13th, 2011
In the last weeks we gradually updated our flat33.com archive and posted a few projects we were only recently able to reveal. We also added some of the recent press and exhibitions etc. Recent projects include a deal with Habitat UK (now part of Home Retail Group) and Habitat's European arm – almost a year in the making – product development of five themed button badge sets compiled and produced under our Stereohype label. Our sets will hit Habitat UK's three flagship stores in London and stores across France, Germany and Spain very soon (if they aren't there already). If you see them in the stores – please do send us snapshots and you'll earn a free reward badge of your choice. Thanks! 8)

What else did we post? FL@33's ongoing design initiative B.I.O. (by invitation only) button badge series went into its 10th round and does – as always – also include a FL@33 contribution.

Promo cards for independent publisher Penrhyn Books have now rounded up the complete package so far we created for this client – with everything from logo, stationery etc and website to the book series designs that were finalised earlier this year.

We also posted new screenshots of the recently revamped bzzzpeek.com – FL@33's popular self-initiated sound project that was first launched in 2002. Bzzzpeek is currently on display in New York's Museum of Modern Art – MoMA – were visitors have a chance to enjoy the Talk to Me exhibition until November 7th. More pictures of the Talk to Me show will be posted soon. In the meantime we also recommend the intriguing exhibition catalogue.

More recent FL@33 press now added to our archive includes a Dutch newspaper article in De Volkskrant and reviews in IdN, Novum and Metropolis – all on FL@33's The 3D Type Book.

October 1st, 2011
FL@33's sister-company stereohype.com is celebrating its 7th Anniversary this month. Follow FL@33/Stereohype aka @graphicflow on Twitter for a chance to win weekly goodies throughout October.

September 29th, 2011
Grafik magazine invited FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek to write a piece for their Letterform series to be published in autumn – issue 193. Now here's a job we can do in the sun today... 8)

September 27th, 2011
A very nice review of our The 3D Type Book appeared in Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant earlier this month and a kind stranger let us know today and emailed us a scan.

September 21st, 2011
Our The 3D Type Book preview movie reached the 11k viewers mark today. 8)

September 19th, 2011
Three button badge-related news items were released earlier today. B.I.O. (by invitation only) button badge series 10 – an ongoing FL@33 design initiative – was launched today. So were this year's button badge design competition winners and runners-up. Last but not least we revealed a massive deal FL@33 and Stereohype have been preparing since November 2010. Habitat UK (now part of Home Retail Group) and Habitat's European arm have ordered record-breaking quantities of five themed button badge sets we developed under our Stereohype label. As with last year's already large test order – we have again selected and recommended badge designs from our growing collection designed by established and emerging talents from around the world. A collection that is now already including 630 designs. B.I.O. series 10 badges – including FL@33's latest badges – and competition winners are now available at stereohype.com. Our themed badge sets will hit Habitat UK's three flagship stores in London and stores across France, Germany and Spain in the next few weeks.

September 14th, 2011
We'll be raising a glass or two tonight at our publisher's 20th birthday party – with the Laurence King himself and his team. Cheers! On the next 20 years of independent publishing! 8)

September 8th, 2011
Our two complimentary contributor copies of MoMA's Talk To Me exhibition catalogue arrived today and feature our bzzzpeek.com project that is currently on display in New York's Museum of Modern Art. We tweeted a snapshot and will post decent pictures here at flat33.com as soon as we have a bit of time.

September 5th, 2011
The Royal College of Art invited us again this year to contribute to their intriguing RCA Secret postcard exhibition and fund-raising event. Six blank postcards came through our letterbox today and are awaiting our creative treatment by October 24th. We will post pictures of our one-off postcards here at flat33.com sometime in December when all the secrets will have been revealed. See FL@33's creations from previous years here.

August 24th, 2011
The FL@33-designed book Cult Streetwear by Josh Sims was re-released as a mini-edition this month by Laurence King Publishing.

August 12th, 2011
Curators of MoMA's Talk to Me show (where FL@33's bzzzpeek.com project is currently exhibited) kindly confirmed today that a professional photographer will be taking pictures of the entire exhibition – including our bzzzpeek interface in action. We will post pictures here at flat33.com as soon as they arrive in September. In the meantime an incredibly friendly stranger followed our Twitter request to send us snapshots from our bzzzpeek website in action at MoMA. We posted the two snapshots at our Facebook page today. A big thank you goes to Damian Kowal! 8)

In other news: The 3D Type Book is #1 at amazon.de's Bestseller list today in the category English language Typography books. Nice.

July 24th, 2011
FL@33's award-winnning online sound project bzzzpeek.com is currently being exhibited at MoMA – New York's Museum of Modern Art. Bzzzpeek is featured as part of the exhibition Talk To Me organised by senior curator Paola Antonelli and curatorial assistant Kate Carmody. Here is a link to the bzzzpeek page on the dedicated exhibition website. Talk To Me is open to the public from today until November 7th, 2011. An exhibition catalogue bzzzpeek.com is also featured in is available at the MoMA store.

July 15th, 2011
A 20% off summer special is currently in place over at our sister-company Stereohype where almost 1,000 products are now available—including many FL@33-designed goodies. The offer is valid until August 31st when all goods placed between now and the end of August will be disptached.

July 13th, 2011
Forthcoming issue of IdN magazine (v18n3: Glitch Issue) will feature a nice The 3D Type Book review and our publisher Laurence King posted a preview snapshot of it already. 8)

July 1st, 2011
Holy moly—FL@33 is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this month! Happy Birthday! 8)

June 29th, 2011
Calling all potential button badge designers: The deadline was extended today to submit 1" (25mm) button badge gems to the 7th annual design competition over at FL@33's sister company Stereohype! For a list of prizes, the list of esteemed international judges, submission guidelines and Photoshop templates, etc please visit stereohype.com. Extended deadline: Friday night, July 8th, 2011, 11.59/23:59, BST.

In other news: Last chance to get your hands on some of the few remaining shirts and classic T-shirts by FL@33 that are currently available for a mere £5 – making space for the new arrivals designed by FL@33 (that are obviously not reduced). Offer ends tomorrow night.

June 28th, 2011
Three more magazines FL@33 has been featured in within the last two months were added today to our press archive – including the current issues of Novum – World of Graphic Design and Page magazine (both German) and also last month's issue of New York's Metropolis magazine who kindly reviewed our latest book The 3D Type Book.

June 27th, 2011
A week or so ago we received our complimentary contributor copy of the book Symbol by Steven Bateman and Angus Hyland (Laurence King). We are very pleased that three of our designs are featured in this fascinating book including Toi Com Moi, Matelsom and École Normale de Musique de Paris. Today we finally posted a few snapshots and excerpts. You might also be interested in the book Logo we were featured in with six of our logo designs a few years ago.

OK—almost there—just a few new magazines left and our press archive is complete again... 8)

June 8th, 2011
Fresh photos of our brand-new Stereohype T-shirts were posted today here at flat33.com.

June 7th, 2011
The latest Stereohype T-shirts – featuring typographic motifs by FL@33 – arrived from the screen-printers today and look just like we wanted them. We are over the moon and hope you'll like them, too. Here is s a preview from the tees straight out of the box – also showing the Sorry I'm Late T-shirt designed by our collaborator Richard Kirk. They are now available at Stereohype. 8)

June 1st, 2011
Preparations are underway for a pre-order launch of new T-shirts for button badge/T-shirt label and online boutique Stereohype – FL@33's sister-company. Five T-shirts will become available at midnight featuring some of our most consistently popular button badge motifs – FL@33's minimal typographic artworks for the Optimist T-shirt Series (Optimist, Idealist, Realist and Pessimist) and Richard Kirk's quirky Sorry I'm Late that he created for his B.I.O. (by invitation only) button badge series 2 contribution.

May 31st, 2011
Today we finally received a copy of German magazine Page who prominently feature a review of FL@33's The 3D Type Book in their June issue. Next month's July issue is however already in the pipeline and will already be released tomorrow. It features FL@33 statements as part of the feature article '10 questions that move today's creatives'. A copy is already on the way to London we were told and we will add this July issue to our comprehensive online archive very soon.

May 27th, 2011
New FL@33-designed Stereohype T-shirts are currently being screenprinted together with another T-shirt gem by Richard Kirk—that will all be released in June. In the meantime you should hurry to get your hands on some of the few remaining classic shirts and T-shirts by FL@33 that are currently available for a mere £5—to make space for the new stock for our sister-company Stereohype.

May 25th, 2011
A brand-new FL@33 profile/interview is featured online as part of Carole Guevin's SFi #3 (Special Feature issue – By invitation only). The feature is called Multi-disciplinarians (by FL@33) and includes a brief FL@33 history, 10 projects from the last 10 years and a very recent interview.

May 24th, 2011
The very last FL@33-designed book of The Bitter Sea book series created for Penryhn Books arrived from the printers and is looking ace (if I may say so). The complete book series contains a whopping total of 1770 pages we designed and type-set with footnotes, pictures and customised maps. All five books are now available online at the website we also designed together with the book covers, the publisher's brand-new logo, stationery with business card/bookmark combination.

May 20th, 2011
Our publisher Laurence King kindly notified us today that Digital Arts magazine recently printed a The 3D Type Book mention in their Spotlight section—entitled 'FL@33 take type of the page'. It was published back in April. We'll post a few recent clippings soon... 8)

May 12th, 2011
Today we received our first studio copy of Grafik magazine we recently re-subscribed to and were very happy to discover that issue number 189 features a nice The 3D Type Book review on page 118.

May 11th, 2011
Call for entries: The 7th annual Stereohype Button Badge Design Competition (2011) over at FL@33's sister company was launched today! For a list of prizes, submission guidelines and Photoshop templates, etc please visit stereohype.com. Deadline: 30/06/2011

In other news: Brand-new typography blog Typetoken features The 3D Type Book today.

April 20th, 2011
Another very kind and flattering review of The 3D Type Book was posted today by Maria Popova's Brain Pickings Blog—The 3D Type Book: A Typographic Treasure.

April 14th, 2011
We are very pleased to announce that MoMA – New York's Museum of Modern Art – selected FL@33's amusing online sound collection bzzzpeek.com to be featured as part of forthcoming exhibition Talk To Me organised by senior curator Paola Antonelli.

April 13th, 2011
International The 3D Type Book sightings include Brussels, Frankfurt, Paris and it was even spotted in Thailand already. Worldwide distribution is obviously in full swing and a few advance copies do now also seem to have arrived in America as Amazon USA now has a few copies in stock – one week prior to its official launch date.

April 12th, 2011
Our popular online sound project bzzzpeek.com had a well-deserved makeover – 8 1/2 years after its launch. It now features 22 languages, bigger arrows and type, no more pop-ups and everything is now centred within the browser window. Enjoy! Submissions are very welcome.

April 7th, 2011
Our The 3D Type Book is today's feature in IdN's POTM (Pick of the Month) section.

April 4th, 2011
Another noteworthy 3D Type Book feature was posted online over the weekend by the nice people at flavorwire.com.

April 1st, 2011
Two very nice reviews of our latest book The 3D Type Book were posted today by Coolhunting and Whiteboard Journal. Thanks guys! 8)

March 25th, 2011
flat33.com CSS change: Purple is the new Gold... 8)
Updates continue...

March 23rd, 2011
Amazon France and Amazon Germany do now also have a few advance copies in stock of our The 3D Type Book.

March 18th, 2011
The 3D Type Book by FL@33 is now also available at Amazon UK. See a preview video of the book here (it's HD – so we do recommend switching to full-screen mode). Enjoy! 8)

March 16th, 2011
Just announced by our publisher: A few advance copies of The 3D Type Book by FL@33 are now already available to buy at laurenceking.com.

March 2nd, 2011
German magazine/blog Slanted posted a nice (p)review today of our forthcoming third book The 3D Type Book.

February 28th, 2011
Dexigner posted a nice 3D Type Book feature today.

The 3D Type Book also gets a mention in the March issue of Creative Review. Because of CR's own new iPad App presentation our The 3D Type Cover is shown a total of 7 times in this issue! 8)

February 22nd, 2011
The dedicated website for FL@33's forthcoming third book entitled The 3D Type Book is now live. Please visit the iPhone-friendly 3d-type.com for additional info. A preview video in all its HD glory was also posted there via our Vimeo channel.

February 16th, 2011
Epic! We just finished the last of The Bitter Sea book series created for Penryhn Books. The final book is now at the printers and will be available shortly. The book series contains a total of 1770 pages we designed and type-set with footnotes, pictures and customised maps. We will post previews of the entire project here at flat33.com with our forthcoming website update. In the meantime please visit penryhnbooks.com to see book covers, the identity we developed for them and the website we also designed.

January 18th, 2011
German Page magazine posted a very nice FL@33 profile/interview today that also features 25 project pictures.

January 14th, 2011
A temporary version of 3d-type.com is now live – a dedicated website for The 3D Type Book – the forthcoming third book conceived, compiled, written and designed by FL@33 (Laurence King Publishing, worldwide release: March/April 2011). We will work on a comprehensive version of the website soon and will then officially announce it's proper launch before the book comes out. The 3D Type Book can be pre-ordered now.

January 13th, 2011
Please subscribe to our newsletter and/or follow us on twitter to be kept in the loop about the forthcoming update of our online work and press archive. We recently also set up a Facebook page for FL@33 and Stereohype.

January 12th, 2011
The third FL@33-designed and typeset book in a series of five – covering British history during the period of the Roman empire – has now been released by independent publisher Penrhyn Books in the UK who also commissioned us to develop their visual identity covering logo design, stationery (letterheads, business cards/bookmarks), book covers and the design of an illustrated book series entitled The Bitter Sea. FL@33 also designed and built their recently launched website with online shop – penryhnbooks.com where the books are made available one at a time. The next two books in the series will be published within the next two months.

We'll post pictures of everything here at flat33.com very soon. In the meantime please visit Penrhyn Books' website to see some of the work we have been creating for them since the beginning of last year.

January 11th, 2011
The January issue of Digital Arts magazine features a full-page article on FL@33's self-initiated projects including our Stereohype activities. Creative Freedom: Leading Designers And Artists Reveal Their Personal Projects. You might still get a copy at your local newsstand – otherwise have a look online as this feature has now also been posted at digitalarts.co.uk

January 10th, 2011
We wish you a happy, healthy and creative 2011!

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