Trans-form (signed magazine)

Large-scale magazine
320 x 500mm
28 pages
portrait
uncoated stock: Challenger Offset 190g
wire stitched
limited edition: 1,000
with attached CD-Rom Trans-it (PC + MAC)

Signed by FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek

Trans-form, Trans-it, trans-port.org, a conceptual FL@33 project based on everyday observations of tower cranes, self-published, award-winning magazine with attached CD-Rom and a website. Trans-form, Trans-it, trans-port.org is a self-initiated Architecture, Art and Design publication by FL@33 founders Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek. It's a conceptual project based on everyday observations of tower cranes combining a magazine, a CD-Rom and a website. The project was made public in July 2001 during the Royal College of Art, master degree Show in London and marked the birth and intentions of FL@33.

The large scale magazine explores the magic of urban sculptures that appear and disappear in the cities we are living in. Tower cranes that are lifting, transporting, re-constructing, drawing, cutting, performing and trans-forming are usually unnoticed by the public's eye. Trans-form presents information about tower cranes and crane operators' daily work in the sky. The CD-Rom adds videos and animations combining industrial structures with natural imagery and is presenting a cityscape metamorphosis, defining our cities as being in a larval stage. Trans-port.org offers you the possibility to build your own crane, to climb a tower crane and to be a crane operator. The widely-acclaimed project has been mentioned and featured online and in numerous magazines and books around the world.

Stockists / Currently available again: Trans-form used to be available in bookshops and museum stores around the world. It was believed to be sold out for years but a box full of Trans-form magazines in mint condition (including Trans-it of course) has recently been unearthed and the previously sold out magazine is currently available again – exclusively at stereohype.com (worldwide shipping).

Please note that a screen capture preview video of the CD-Rom's content was posted at flat33.com. FL@33 also created an updated legacy 'player' for Mac OS X users to enjoy the CD-Rom's content that was originally created for Mac OS 9 at the time. A link to this free app update can be found in flat33.com's Downloads section.

FL@33 is a multi-disciplinary design studio for visual communication, established in London in 2001 and led by co-founding Creative Director Tomi Vollauschek. The studio works with businesses, cultural and educational institutions, and individuals on visual identities, publications and communication across print and digital media.

Its award-winning, internationally published work spans typography, image-making and editorial design, from logos and identity systems to books, packaging, websites, moving image and exhibition graphics. FL@33 brings together collaborators according to each project’s needs, with commissioned work alongside self-initiated projects and publications.

Alongside leading FL@33 and Stereohype, Tomi teaches visual communication at BA and Master level, lectures internationally and runs workshops, including ‘Personal Project and the Power of Three’. His practice also encompasses writing, publishing, curation and developing graphic-art products.

A FL@33 monograph (Design & Designer 033 – FL@33) was published in 2005 by Pyramyd. FL@33's Tomi Vollauschek also authored and designed three books that were published under the FL@33 imprint worldwide by Laurence King and partner publishers: Postcard (2008), Made & Sold: Toys, T-Shirts, Prints, Zines and Other Stuff (2009) and The 3D Type Book (2011). In the same year FL@33’s popular online sound collection project bzzzpeek.com was exhibited in New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). FL@33’s co-founders also self-published the widely acclaimed Trans-form magazine (2001) and the tenth anniversary book and exhibition catalogue Stereohype 2004–2014, which Tomi conceived, compiled and designed.

External link: flat33.com

Created by: FL@33 / Agathe Jacquillat / Tomi Vollauschek /