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Design and production: Heidi Dokulil, Beatrice Chew, Graeme Smith
Photography (flora, Japan, objects, etc): Heidi Dokulil, Graeme Smith
Available at Architext bookshop, Tusculum Villa, 3 Manning Street, Potts Point, Sydney
Lao textiles
Looking at a photograph of a beautiful fabric, or reading about it on a screen, is a poor substitute for holding it in your hand, feeling its weight and texture, seeing how its surface changes with the light or enjoying how it looks and feels when it’s draped around your body. The idea behind the larger-than-average thumbnails is to say what we can, with pictures and words, but also to add some complexity, as new stories and pictures are added, and enable a more serendipitous way of looking over the material.
Design: Graeme Smith, Miss Lee Wong, littleirrepressiblewonton. Styling: Samorn Sanixay. Principal photography: wclee. Additional photography: Tom Greenwood, Pierre Raimond.
Please visit
easternweft.com.au
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Badges for Unlimited: Designing for the Asia Pacific.
Design: Beatrice Chew. Art direction: Graeme Smith.
xDesigning for the Asia Pacific
It’s realistic— and not even remotely cynical—to say that the general view put across by the design and mainstream media, on a future shaped by design, is limited. It’s often more about colour prediction or leading the way with the next thing in European lampshade irony, than fixing the problems of the planet. Western Europe, particularly Italy, France, Germany and the UK get strong coverage, as does North America.
The upcoming program, Unlimited: Designing for the Asia Pacific, provides hope for a refreshing about-face. Food futures, smart cities, transport systems, new technologies for solving complex problems, health and education will be some of the things covered in talks, exhibitions and workshops in Brisbane, 4–10 October. And it’s regional.
Website design and art direction: Graeme Smith, Beatrice Chew. Content management and editing: Heidi Dokulil, Peter Salhani. Web development and interactive design: Portable. Identity design: R-Co. Client: Queensland government. Other people are credited on the Unlimited website.
Please keep an eye on the Unlimited site to see the program as it develops. You can also subscribe to receive updates.
unlimitedap.com
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On my Patch
Hill Street Precinct will host 5 events responding to the Sydney Design theme, ‘Tell us a story’. Collectively, it’s called, ‘On my Patch’.
Saturday 31 July–Sunday 15 August
For times please visit
hillstreetprecinct.com/patch
2 Hill Street
Ground level:
Euroluce
Sarah King & Emma Elizabeth Coffey.
Installation based on the 1974 French film ‘Celine and Julie go Boating’ which informs 2 new furniture pieces—’Wing-back’ and ‘Mobile Luce’.
Level 4:
Samorn Sanixay, Eastern Weft.
‘Anithya’. A workshop installation showing how flowers, seeds, berries and plants collected locally and in season are used to dye handwoven textiles using traditional South East Asian techniques.
Level 4:
Knitty, Gritty & Loopy.
Hands-on workshops in which everyday waste is transformed into by-products of love that tell a story of where things come from and where they will go.
8 Hill Street
Ground level:
Workshopped.
Launch of ‘Usable Design’ exhibition featuring furniture and objects by designers who have exhibited over the past 10 years with Workshopped.
Level 1:
The Sewing Room.
A series of fashion and sewing workshops: tambour beading, fashion design and colour theory, fashion illustration, embroidery and beading techniques, pleating, chic t-shirt manipulations.
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