Flat i

Flat i Flat i is an occasional publishing house for publications that concentrate on the creative process behind one single artwork.

Flat i was founded in 2015 as a home gallery, but over time, and after moving to Brussels, has turned into a publishing project more than anything else. Flat i publications concentrate on the creative process behind one single work, focusing on the material that gets translated and the actions that perform this translation rather than the work that these combined efforts result in. Flat i publicat

ions aim to not just share this material and this process, but to find ways to reenact them, as a way of freeing them from being merely that which leads to the final work; to find ways to have this process exist on its own terms and speak for itself. Flat i is a project by Michiel Huijben.

Back by popular demand: our fairly limited-edition Handrail Awareness Calendar, 2026 edition!A full-colour, real-world e...
19/11/2025

Back by popular demand: our fairly limited-edition Handrail Awareness Calendar, 2026 edition!

A full-colour, real-world extension of the HAG weekly newsletter, this calendar celebrates a year’s worth of outstanding handrails—twelve carefully selected examples of support, stability, and unexpected beauty.

Each month showcases a different remarkable rail, photographed and presented with the same attention to detail that has made HAG some people’s favourite newsletter. Wednesdays’ are marked because IYKYK.

Designed by , printed in Amsterdam in full colour on 150g MC Mat and bound with a sleek black Wire-O, the calendar measures 105 × 297 mm.

Ships mid-December, perfectly timed for holiday gifting and to be proudly hung on January 1st.

Quantities are limited—get yours from the Flat i website before it slips away! Now, the first 7 orders receive a free LEVEL OF AWARENESS spirit level keyring (last slide)🔑

Mooie recensie van The Stuart Sherman Papers door Rob de Graaf in de .nl ❤️ Nice (browser-translated) review of The Stua...
11/09/2025

Mooie recensie van The Stuart Sherman Papers door Rob de Graaf in de .nl ❤️

Nice (browser-translated) review of The Stuart Sherman Papers by Rob de Graaf in the Theaterkrant ❤️

Link in bio 🔗

In his work, Stuart Sherman played with signs, signifiers, and symbols, as demonstrated in the design of this holiday ca...
27/11/2024

In his work, Stuart Sherman played with signs, signifiers, and symbols, as demonstrated in the design of this holiday card he made in the mid-1990s. In anticipation of our book, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴, we printed a limited run of them as a gift to people who pre-order the book. Buy the book on pre-sale from the webshop and get three cards plus envelopes 🔴🟢 

Also available separately, as a pack of three, for €7.50. 
All those of you who love sending greeting cards: this one beats a Hallmark one, easily. Happy holidays, link in bio!🎄

(P.S. Those of you who already bought some Thank you! You can expect them on your doormat soon! 
❤️💚

In his work, Stuart Sherman played with signs, signifiers, and symbols, as demonstrated in the design of this holiday ca...
27/11/2024

In his work, Stuart Sherman played with signs, signifiers, and symbols, as demonstrated in the design of this holiday card he made in the mid-1990s. In anticipation of our book, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘚𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴, we printed a limited run of them as a gift to people who pre-order the book. Buy the book on pre-sale from the webshop and get three cards plus envelopes 🔴🟢

Also available separately, as a pack of three, for €7.50.
All those of you who love sending greeting cards: this one beats a Hallmark one, easily. Happy holidays, link in bio!🎄

(P.S. Those of you who already bought some Thank you! You can expect them on your doormat soon!
❤️💚

The Stuart Sherman Papers contains a wide variety of texts, from poems and short stories to single-sentence musings and ...
14/11/2024

The Stuart Sherman Papers contains a wide variety of texts, from poems and short stories to single-sentence musings and word play. To offer the reader some guidance, they’re divided into loose categories which function as chapters. One of these is simply titled PEOPLE, and contains wonderful short stories about significant people in Stuart’s life, like this one about the actor, director and playwright Charles Ludlam.

Charles Ludlam was born on Long Island, New York, in 1943 and moved to Manhattan in 1964 after obtaining a degree in dramatic literature from Hofstra University. His work fused elements of camp, farce, and absurdist theater, often satirizing social norms, gender, and identity with flamboyant and exaggerated characters. A groundbreaking figure in LGBTQ+ theater, Ludlam’s boundary-pushing style and exuberant presence made him a fixture in Midtown Manhattan’s Off- (and Off-Off) Broadway scene until his death from AIDS in 1987.

Stuart’s story, aptly titled CHARLES LUDLAM, is a beautiful character description of Ludlam, an ode to a friend, disguised as a short story that describes how the two met – offering a glimpse of Midtown Manhattan’s theatre/performance scene of the ‘70s and ‘80s in the process.

Pre-order The Stuart Sherman Papers now via welcometoflati.bigcartel.com and receive a discount and three limited edition reprints of an original greetings card by Stuart Sherman. This offer lasts only one more week!

Coming soon:The Stuart Sherman Papers❤️
21/05/2024

Coming soon:

The Stuart Sherman Papers

❤️

By Habib William Kherbek
14/05/2024

By Habib William Kherbek

Today we sent out our 100th newsletter ❤️And though this newsletter is for (free) subscribers only, this is somehow a ce...
28/02/2024

Today we sent out our 100th newsletter ❤️

And though this newsletter is for (free) subscribers only, this is somehow a celebratory moment so I’ll make an exception 😌

On the occasion, you can read our interview with the wonderful Will Pollard for .serriffe on the San Serriffe Reader website.

The HAG newsletter is powered by Flat i, hand in hand with and and and comes out weekly. If you‘d like some support(s) for your inbox, go to handrailawareness.com



Available now:BENCH, VOL. I
By Monika Janulevičiūtė 
 

Co-published by Flat i and buddiesThis first volume of Janulev...
19/07/2023

Available now:

BENCH, VOL. I
By Monika Janulevičiūtė 
 

Co-published by Flat i and buddies

This first volume of Janulevičiūtė’s BENCH contains 378 screenshots of benches found in real estate listings – from summer houses, homesteads, barns, garden houses, timber sheds to wash houses and saunas – in provinces and towns of Lithuania. It’s as if life was removed quite recently, or not at all – the soup is still warm, life is retained as it is, with benches in the margins. Bags, tools, blankets, apples, snow – the daily clutter of life – are found undisturbed.

As co-publisher (with ) of the weekly HAG newsletter (handrailawareness.com), Flat i is offering this HAG wall calendar...
06/12/2022

As co-publisher (with ) of the weekly HAG newsletter (handrailawareness.com), Flat i is offering this HAG wall calendar.

Showcase great handrails all-year-round with our 2023 wall calendar. Not only a fresh start to a new year, it's a fantastic way for you to raise handrail awareness among your dinner guests!

Product specifications:
The HAG calendar is 14.8 x 40 cm, printed on 250 gsm semi-gloss silk paper, wire-bound with a hook.

FYI:
- The wire-O binder color might be metallic, black, or white depending on the regional availability. 
- Packaging: flat, protected packaging box, brown, or white color.

Flat i is happy to announce the (in/definitely) ongoing publication project HAG (Handrail Awareness Group): a weekly bul...
06/04/2022

Flat i is happy to announce the (in/definitely) ongoing publication project HAG (Handrail Awareness Group): a weekly bulletin by Michiel Huijben, Monika Janulevičiūtė, Martin Kohout and Bianca Pedrina, digitally published and delivered to your inbox in collaboration with TLTR Preß!

Don’t wait! Go to handrailawareness.com to sign up for this free weekly newsletter!

HAG is dedicated to increasing awareness of the support structures that surround us - those we often find ourselves leaning on, grabbing hold of, or hanging on to whenever our lives ascend or descend.

🗞 VIENNA! HAG launches this Friday 📈

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Flat i is an independent publishing project by Michiel Huijben, intended to produce publications which focus on the research and process behind a single work of art; on the material that gets translated and the actions that perform this translation, rather than the work that these combined efforts result in.

The aim is to not just share this material and process, but to find ways to reenact them, as a way of freeing them from being merely that which leads to the final work -- ultimately the aim is to find ways to have this process exist on its own terms and speak for itself.

Essentially, Flat i provides me with opportunities for working closely with artists whose work and working methods i find inspiring, and to share these with others.

Flat i is run by me, Michiel.