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  • FVS Bi-Weekly Nr. 152 — Sara Londoño

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    Hi everyone! I interviewed Sara again! Be prepared for a long interview stuffed with beautiful illustrations and lots of nuggets of wisdom: https://flexiblevisualsystems.info/resources/interviewsara-2/ When I am using the word illustration, I am not using it in the “nice visual to make the text look a bit more entertaining” sense. Sara is illustrating (throwing a light…

  • FVS Bi-Weekly Nr. 151 — New TI Lesson!

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    Hey! A new lesson of the Temporal Intelligence course is out. This time we are travelling to Cyprus and are having fun with the flexible visual system of a 4000 year old jug with two necks! If you haven’t done the first two lessons yet, I recommend visiting them first. Start at the beginning of…

  • FVS Bi-Weekly Nr. 150 — What’s new in Figma? Interview with Ricardo Lodroño

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    ENGLISH: Hi everybody, It has been a while since Ricardo and I last had a public conversation, and with how fast design technology is evolving, we had a lot of ground to cover. Following the highly successful workshop and foundational course he recently taught for the School of Systems, I sat down with him to…

  • FVS Bi-Weekly Nr. 149 — New Course in the Making!

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    Dear Patrons! A new course is in the making! Here is an exclusive pre-release of the first two lessons for all patrons with a student tier: Temporal Intelligence Intro: https://flexiblevisualsystems.info/courses/ti-intro/Lesson 1: https://flexiblevisualsystems.info/courses/ti-intro/ti-1/ I am having so much fun working on this course. It’s like travelling in time and space. I hope you can sense that…

  • FVS Bi-Weekly Nr. 148 — Irene Vallejo, SoS, Lena Weber

    FVS Bi-Weekly Nr. 148 — Irene Vallejo, SoS, Lena Weber

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    Hi, Hope you are doing well! You might have noticed that I took a little break. It has been an intense first half of the year, and I needed to calm my nervous system. Which I did by reading Irene Vallejo’s brilliant book Papyrus at a beach at the Baltic Sea. If you haven’t read…

  • FVS Bi-Weekly Nr. 147 — Updating the FVS Model

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    Good Morning dear FVS Designers, the way I explain the different types of flexible systems for visual identities might have changed forever. If you read the book Flexible Visual Systems, you are familiar with the model of the two different types of identity systems: Identification through form and Identification through transformation. This model did not…

  • FVS Bi-Weekly Nr. 146 — MVD Part 2

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    Dear FVS Designers, … and if you haven’t discovered the second part already, here it is: https://flexiblevisualsystems.info/resources/interviewelisava2026-2/ Have a fantastic week,Martin

  • FVS Bi-Weekly Nr. 145 — MVD Part 1

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    Dear FVS Designers, One of my favorite weeks of the year is the week I am spending with the wonderful students of the ELISAVA Master of Visual Design, directed by Marc Panero. I have taught this fun workshop on Systemic Type Design since 2020 and with every year it is becoming more fun. Although we…

  • Q&A with Elio and Martin about the joy (and pain) of publishing books!

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    Hey! I hope life is treating you well and your week is fun so far. Without stealing too much of your precious time, I want to inform you that Elio and I will have a one-hour Q&A THIS FRIDAY at 3 pm CEST about the joy, but also the pain, of making books. You might…

  • FVS Bi-Weekly Nr. 144: Interview with Elio Salichs

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    «I remember something an editor told us years ago at the Frankfurt Book Fair. We went there because we liked books and wanted to design them. While talking, he said: ‹Publishers don’t need designers. They need authors.› With that sentence, we understood that we had to change our perspective—from designers as service providers to designers…