This catalogue was designed for the New South Wales Architecture Awards which were announced a few days ago. Inevitably — with these simpler, quieter works —someone will ask where the design is… and I don’t know how to answer in a succinct way.
I could tell them about the way a sentence is set, and how it wraps around the curve of the paper or how I want someone to look while holding it in their hands or how a particular font brings back memories of elegant typewritten forms. But I don’t.
The type is Freight Text and Sans. Art director: Graeme Smith. Editor: Peter Salhani.

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Something intriguing and archetypal about these charming drawings of houses by ceramic artist, Keiko Matsui.
At Gaffa, 281 Clarence Street, Sydney.

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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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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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Newspaper: Beatrice Chew. Roses: GS

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Still pushing: bikes, peonies…

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

Some shots from a tour of the Underbelly Public Lab where emerging artists talked about their upcoming works for the Underbelly Arts Festival this coming Saturday 17 July. The festival is in Chippendale, Sydney. More details soon.
underbellyarts.com.au/2010

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