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The Weather Ring is onto its second issue, and lots has happened in the city since the Perth architecture/design mag launched last February.

The Weather Ring is the brainchild of Perthites Andrew Murray & Clare Wohlnick and is an attempt to chronicle and display the many facets of design in the state, from architecture to graphic and packaging design, past, present and future.

This issue features Tom Freeman writing on materials, a CODA Studio redesign of a rehab farm, recollections of a Montessori childhood, and a fascinating interview with veteran graphic designer Rick Lambert.
Printed copies of The Weather Ring are now available at FORM on Murray, or online on their blog.

52 Suburbs is a stunning photo-journal of some of the intricacies that make up Sydney suburbia. It is put together by photographer Louise Hawson, whose plan is 'to nose around one new suburb every week for a year, in search of the beauty in the 'burb. (Beauty in this case meaning old, original, retro, rusty, repurposed, nostalgic etc).'

Travelling from Cronulla to Cabramatta, Wahroonga to Potts Point, Louise has a knack for contrasting the (seemingly) bland elements of suburbia, revealing the extraordinary in the everyday.

Image © Louise Hawson 2009

The Thousands are online portals for those who believe that the best things in life are often hard to find. 

Each Thousand refreshes itself daily with city snapshots covering albums, events and laundromats; not to mention the odd opinion on film, coffee and pants. 

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