Like the title type.

I was introduced to Jan Hartmann from Studio Hartensteiner who are the organisers for Designers’ Open, 28–30 October 2011. Afterwards I kept seeing these beautiful blue and black posters all over the city, combined in interesting ways.

Dzine at Gestalten Space.

Library of Halle 14, Spinnerei.

Leipzig is the place for publishing, book art, book design and printing. One of the reasons I need to return.

Halle 14

The type.

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Outdoor screen.

The projection room.

The system.

Open air Kino, Spinnerei
Spinnerei Galleries
Spinnerei, from cotton to culture

Leipzig designer/photographer, Jo Zarth, kindly spent a day showing me around Leipzig, in particular, Plagwitz—the creative quarter of the city. He also gave me his spare bike.

A liking for chinoiserie shows up in much of his installation work — apart from King Size, the recent exhibition Small Business Reconstructed and collaborative work combining food, design, art and photography with Thomas Wrobel as Chinabrenner.

I visited Maria Volokhova’s studio in Berlin, near Alexanderplatz and on the Spree River (almost). More later.
There will be shots of final works soon. Meanwhile they can be seen on her site.

Happy Talk House opens Friday 23 September in Sydney’s Sandringham Gardens, Hyde Park North (diagonally opposite the Australian Museum). Happy Talk will have workshops and talks on Pacific Island culture as part of Art & About 2011.

Happy Talk = Heidi Dokulil, Liane Rossler, Beatrice Chew.
Broadsheet: Beatrice Chew and Heidi Dokulil.
Architect: Mano Ponnambalam.

Please visit the Happy Talk site for information and program.

Lots to think about a brilliant practice working on the edge of architecture and using public space as a laboratory to discover possibilities.

Love their building and its location on a canal off the River Spree. Also the method of entry. If the orange door was locked the instructions were to phone. So I did, and someone appeared at the top floor window saying, ‘I’m going to throw you a rabbit’. The fluffy bunny had the key in its butt.

To be revisited soon.