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Study Conditions

I was surprised to see just how many students prefer to eat their dinner meals at the cafeteria, instead of cooking at home. Around 6 pm, the Mensa (Cafeterias) fill up with students and sounds of cutlery and crockery banging about.
It’s not cheap to eat twice a day here, but it beats a hungry night during a study cram.

Everything is molded around the student, you just can’t have an excuse, save for illness, not to study! Need Internet access? Have the library internet access! Can’t study at home? Here’s library seats, peace and quiet. What’s more, it’s round the clock. If you feel like you need a silent minute during Christmas, by all means. It’s there, just use it.

Have I ever written about the beautiful library? It’s a marvel. Every study path has their own building with a library section. The Business and Economy section is quite well-stocked and is maintained very carefully.

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Card Collection 1

There’s a unique sort of richness in the greeting card adverts of Leipzig, a mass of originality, style, sometimes randing on kitsch, but always surprising. It’s quite unheard of in where I usually live, so it was an opportunity to see how graphic design is done in Europe without having to dish out money on a thick book.

It’s evolving, it’s fresh and it’s something to admire. I’ve been collecting cards short of three months now and will be sharing some of my finds here.

One of the instantly recognisable designs is the Staubsauger club, where the style and shape remains unchanged for many incarnations of cards.

This club also follows a recurring theme, but look at how elegantly the colours are selected!

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Weihnachtsmarkt Gallery

All of my Christmas Market photos in a gallery.

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Christmas Market in Leipzig

The spirit of festivity has come to Leipzig with the opening of the Christmas Market, the Weihnachtsmarkt, on the 22nd of November. It’ll be here for a whole month, complete with a giant Christmas tree, gift and food stalls and beautiful decorations of the city.

Local-made ornaments and decorations are a staple here, there are numerous stalls for wooden, glass and woven Christmas tree decorations, as well as incense, candle and pottery stalls, which I’ve seen around Easter as well.

Glass baubles with metal rotating paddles inside them. They move when heated by a light!

Wooden ornaments.

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Card Collection

The beauty of Leipzig’s advertisements is its card stands. High on cultural and weekend activities, it houses different card-sized adverts, fliers and booklets for my viewing pleasure and collection growth.

I’m going to start displaying my collection every few days – it’s very educational to see what sort of graphic design Germany is up to these days, what’s trendy and what catches the eye better.

At some point, I really want to start replicating the cards. This sort of exercise is very good for getting a feel of how the designer was working, what goes on in creating such a layout and how much time would you need for it.