An exhibition and lecture series about the relationship Japanese people have with characters.
Japan: Kingdom of Characters, The Japan Foundation, Chifley Square, Sydney, 8 April – 28 May.

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One of a series, Atmospheres, by French photographer Pierre Raimond.

The quietness of these pictures makes me keep returning to them again and again. Another instance of how much can be contained within a photograph — as a place of reflection — without it shouting or making a message so obvious that it’s all over after the first viewing.

Six shots by Pierre will be featured on a set of postcards for the weaving cooperative / clothing label, Eastern Weft.

Vieux Arbre, © Pierre Raimond, Soliloques.

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The most beautifully scrunched paper—by Saskia Havekes, Grandiflora, Potts Point.

Series of plan-printed A0 posters for a month-long viewing of a beautiful folio on the works of architect, Glenn Murcutt, published and designed by 01 Editions, Sydney, with writing by Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Pallasmaa and David Malouf.

Poster design: Graeme Smith
Folio: Glenn Murcutt, Architect by Kenneth Frampton
ISBN 0-9775931-0-x
Publisher / designer: 01 Editions, Michael Tommasi, Liisa Naar
Photographer: Pierre Toussaint

Please visit Workshopped, 8 Hill Street, Surry Hills, Sydney or 01 Editions.

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High on the wall of a room in the herbarium at Sydney’s Botanic Gardens (let’s lose the word Royal) — an elegantly spare garden fork from an earlier time. Quiet beauty.

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Found a 1974 copy of Faber & Faber’s last poems by W H Auden. The title is set in Berthold Wolpe’s powerful ‘chiselled’ display face, Albertus, and most likely it’s his cover design too—as he was their in-house designer until 1975.

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Newspaper: Beatrice Chew. Roses: GS

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Wishing you happiness, and may good things come your way as you travel through the year.

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