NEWS
July 1st, 2025
Fedrigoni 365 time! For an eighth time, FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek contributed an annual typographic interpretation to this calendar and design compendium by the Italian paper company Fedrigoni. See Tomi's latest Fedrigoni 365 (2025) minimalistic design here, and all the previous contributions can be found via this link.
___ The special 2025 Opposites-themed incarnation of this beautiful publication features a new design by Tomi, who was briefed to freely interpret and create an experimental visual for the date 1 July 2025. The allocated seed word was “Timeless”. The artwork was printed with Pantone Silver on black Fedrigoni stock in the Dark section of the publication.
___ This top-quality collaborative project has already raised over £30,000 for selected charities.
June 26th, 2025
Design Teaching | Wishing all ECV Lille Graphic Design & Aert Direction students all the best for this week's Master diploma presentations – especially my remote Alternance gang.
___ After on site ECV France – École de Création Visuelle – workshops in Lille, remote classes in Culture Graphique and Visual Identity, FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek was also one of their tutors for their final year projects. Good luck – you've got this! See you on Friday!
April 18th, 2025
Design Teaching | Just a few days before heading to the Bordeaux branch of ECV France – École de Création Visuelle, after Easter, to run a new round of the always-popular FL@33 Masterclass workshop, Personal Projects and the Power of Three (PPP3), we have just posted the image-heavy documentation from the ECV Lille PPP3 workshop held in February.
___ The previous workshop was with Master 1 students, while FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek will conduct sessions with two groups of Bachelor Design students in Bordeaux next week. That documentation will follow soon. [EDU+]
February 20th, 2025
Design Teaching | Self-portrait reflected in the new visual identity dots from ECV France – École de Création Visuelle. FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek is once again currently at the ECV branch in Lille to run one of his always-popular week-long Masterclass workshops, Personal Projects and the Power of Three (PPP3), with a new group of Master 1 Graphic Design & Art Direction students.
___ You can book Tomi via flat33.com/edu > contact, where he has also posted documentation of various workshops, courses, jury member activities, and lectures at international design colleges from Lille to Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux to Cambridge, Copenhagen to Darmstadt, and London to Baltimore.
___ The latest ECV Lille workshop documentation will be posted here at flat33.com soon. [EDU+]
February 11th, 2025
Design Teaching | Now online: Culture Graphique Course documentation with Tomi Vollauschek's Master 2 syllabus Grid Adventures: Design Beyond Boundaries he developed in his role as visiting lecturer [intervenant] at ECV Lille – École de Création Visuelle. [EDU+]
January 24th, 2025
Design Teaching | Yours truly – re-appointed to be Visiting Lecturer [intervenant] for 2025 at ECV France – École de Création Visuelle – tutoring Final Year / Master's Degree Graduation Projects mostly online across a 5-month-period for Master 2 / year 5 Graphic Design and Art Direction 'alternance' students at ECV Lille, France. [EDU+]
January 23rd, 2025
Design Teaching | Without further ado, we have just added to FL@33's recently launched Design Teaching archive and overview: the documentation and specially developed briefs for the brand-new English-language editorial design and typography workshop, Micro to Macro – A Comprehensive Typography Masterclass by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek, for Graphic Design & Art Direction Master's (Yr 4 / M1 Alt) students at French Design College ECV Aix-en-Provence.
January 1st, 2025
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To new beginnings and all the great things we will create together this year! Wishing you all a healthy, creative and happy 2025.
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December 7th, 2024
Save the date! Mr Stereohype aka FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek will be in London – out there in the wild once more – together with chief assistant Josh... Please come and visit our Stereohype / FL@33 stand at the Illustrators' Winter Fair on Saturday, 7 December 2024, where we will offer all our 1777 beautiful button badges and bring a few optional gift boxes along. Over 100 illustrators and artists will again be part of this beautiful (and free) event in London. 11am–5pm. It's indoors in the stunning ‘Crossing’ entrance hall to the Granary building on Granary Square, King's Cross, N1C. See our previous stands here. A documentation will be posted here. (Photo credit: Spoon Shao)
November 21st, 2024
The Fedrigoni 365 (2025) launch in London was a special occasion held over two days (21–22 November). Throughout the busy event, manufacturers and collaborators gave insightful live-streamed talks, while the impressive design contributions were proudly showcased – including the artwork by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek who contributed for an eighth year running. See the typographic experiments FL@33 created for Fedrigoni 365 since 2017.
October 31st, 2024 ≶
This new personal S.A.V. monogram was developed by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek. The logo is a striking blend of minimalism and symbolism for a young man poised for success.
___ The two opposing arrows converge to form an 'S', representing the past and future, while grounding him in the now. This design embodies personal growth, balancing reflection and action, and highlights how experiences shape our journey. We posted a few more pictures here. ≶
October 31st, 2024
Design Teaching | A fresh new editorial design and typography masterclass workshop by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek comes to an end after a week with ECV France Graphic Design & Art Direction Master students in Aix-en-Provence. Micro to Macro – A Comprehensive Typography Masterclass provided an overall successful crash course for some and an in-depth refresher for others. It was a new group of students who had recently come together for the two-year Master's ECV course; they came from different schools and had varying specialisations, knowledge, and skill bases.
___ A steep learning curve for students and teacher alike. Tomi went with the flow, fine-tuned, and adjusted to squeeze in as much theory and practice as possible in just four days – a whirlwind of presentations, tutorials, exercises, poster and book designs.
___ Here a link to an overview of Tomi's Design Teaching, including previous workshops, lectures and jury activities at ECV Lille / Bordeaux / Aix-en-Provence, France. [EDU+]
October 28th, 2024
Design Teaching | FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek is in Aix-en-Provence this week to run his new workshop Micro to Macro – A Comprehensive Typography Masterclass. It was developed to provide an editorial design and typography crash course for some and an indepth refresher for others. Tomi's masterclass offers a comprehensive journey through typography, from the minutiae of letterforms to the broader aspects of page layout and book design.
___ This exceptionally only 4-day-long experience balances theory and practice, progressing from micro-typographic exercises inspired by Swiss Style to macro-typographic challenges in contemporary book design.
___ Previous workshops, lectures and jury activities at ECV Aix-en-Provence / Lille / Bordeaux, France. [EDU+]
October 16th, 2024
Newsletter October 2024 | Design Studio FL@33 News, Design Teaching, New Work
A ultra-rare newsletter to mark a new era. It sure is a colourful, surprising and comprehensive one – and starts like this:
Good morning! Guten Morgen! Bonjour↔!
Three (3!) house and studio moves in three years – it's a theme, apparently. From Central London's Clerkenwell to Barnsbury, followed by Angel, and now, after over 23 years in London, it's Lyon in France. Packing and unpacking, tears and laughter, questions and more questions. The dust has settled. Life can be messy, croissants consistently divine.
___ Time to start afresh. It's been too long – but here it is – leaner, stronger and more determined than ever, with over 23 years of experience: Design Studio FL@33.
Graphic Design / Art & Creative Direction / Design Teaching:
What can we create together?
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September 30th, 2024
[EDU+] ← This is a new Design Teaching tag for selected documentation and news pages, from flat33.com's usual Exhibitions etc. page.
___ This additional browsing option allows us to bring them all together in one compilation. A new Design Teaching focus that presents an overview of Tomi Vollauschek's educational collaborations with international Art & Design Colleges including Tomi's Masterclass workshops, courses, jury duty and college lectures.
September 27th, 2024
Design Teaching | After over eight years of collaboration with ECV France as an external educator, speaker, and designer in residence, Tomi Vollauschek from FL@33 is honoured to be re-appointed as a visiting lecturer [intervenant] at ECV Lille – École de Création Visuelle. In this role, he will teach a remote Culture Graphique course with a specially developed Master 2 syllabus Grid Adventures: Design Beyond Boundaries.
___ During his time at ECV France (Lille, Bordeaux and Aix-en-Provence), Tomi has led masterclass workshops, delivered talks, and participated in diploma graduation jury duties. His new position continues to enable him to inspire students in the field of visual communication. [EDU+]
August 28th, 2024
New identity system with playful logo, developed by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek for long-time collaborator Jan von Holleben and his latest adventure: Kids Love Photography – a new imprint focusing on lovely photography books for children. The new project page showcases the new logo, variants and coulourways, social media assets including logo animations.
August ꩜th, 2024
For a seventh time, FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek contributed an annual typographic interpretation to this calendar and design compendium by the Italian paper company Fedrigoni. See Tomi's latest Fedrigoni 366 (2024) more abstract design here, and all the previous contributions can be found via this link.
___ The special 2024 Generative Uniqueness-themed incarnation of this beautiful publication features a new design by Tomi, who was briefed to freely interpret and create an experimental visual for the number 16, with his allocated calendar date being 16 August.
___ This top-quality collaborative project has already raised over £30,000 for selected charities.
July 26th, 2024
Design Teaching | Now online: Visual Identity Course documentation with Tomi Vollauschek's Master 2 syllabus in his role as visiting lecturer [intervenant] at ECV Lille – École de Création Visuelle. All the best to the recent graduates! 8)
February 23rd, 2024
Design Teaching | Graduation ceremony time! Kindly invited once again to come to ECV's Aix-en-Provence branch and the city's beautiful Théâtre du Jeu de Paume, FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek was honoured to give a speech to graduates, friends and family, in his role as president and panelist of the international Master Design Jury for Diplomas 2023. [EDU+]
January 15th, 2024
Design Teaching | FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek is back in Lille to run another of his popular masterclass workshops Personal Projects and the Power of Three. The evolving and inspireational workshop was developed by Tomi to encourage experimentation, appreciation of process but also to help students to embrace failure and provoke ‘happy accidents’. The workshop aims to help students find a voice and add more personality and emotion to their work as graphic designers and visual communicators.
___ Here a link to an overview of Tomi's Design Teaching, including previous workshops, lectures and jury activities at ECV Lille / Bordeaux / Aix-en-Provence, France. [EDU+]
September 22nd, 2023
Design Teaching | After over seven years of collaboration with ECV France as an external educator, speaker, and designer in residence, Tomi Vollauschek from FL@33 is honoured to be appointed as a visiting lecturer [intervenant] at ECV Lille – École de Création Visuelle. In this role, he will teach a remote Visual Identity course.
___ During his time at ECV France (Lille, Bordeaux and Aix-en-Provence), Tomi has led masterclass workshops, delivered talks, and participated in diploma graduation jury duties. His new position will enable him to continue inspiring students in the field of visual communication. [EDU+]
July 8th, 2023
Please come and visit us at the amazing Illustrators' Summer Fair 2023 today. Badges, T-shirts and prints – many of them designed by FL@33 – will be on offer for extra special non-online prices. We will have a beautifully colourful Stereohype / FL@33 stand inside Granary Building, Granary Square, King's Cross, London, 11am–5pm. See our previous stands here. A documentation will be posted here.
June 28th, 2023
Design Teaching | Yours truly – Monsieur le President in all-white for once, and gang. ECV Aix-en-Provence jury presidency – the documentation
June 26th, 2023
Design Teaching | Finally the cat is out of the bag. No more a top secret: FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek has the honour of being this year's president of the international ECV Aix-en-Provence jury panel for Master level art direction and design students. See documentation
President of the Jury | Tomi Vollauschek | Portfolio Jury | Magali Tardy-Guyot and Tomi Vollauschek | Project Jury | Clio Chaffardon, Anna Mercurio an Christian Küsters. [EDU+]
