They Hit It

In case you haven’t yet seen it, the wall at Central Parkway and Vine St. on the edge of Over-the-Rhine [the side of Park+Vine] got bombed over the weekend. Although I’m a fan of graffiti and, more generally, street art, I don’t condone this. The wall was being prepped for a mural that Tim Parsley is creating this summer with the ArtWorks program.

Let’s Shoot Ghost Sign

The city is always in flux — we’ve got new ghost signs and layers of ghost signs, and now a ghost sign rediscovered through the rehab of this storefront on Walnut St. in downtown Cincinnati, which is being turned into a bar called The Righteous Room.

There, I Fixed It

There, I Fixed It is a sort of I Can Has Cheezburger? for the McGyver set. Above, Functional Topiary. Below, Environmentally Friendly Gremlin and Zombie Scouting Post — just three of my favorites.

Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: lots to do this holiday weekend.

Charley Harper Original Art Exhibit: next Saturday, a long-lost treasure trove of Harper’s paintings for Ford Times and Lincoln Mercury Times will be unveiled at Fabulous Frames & Art in Montgomery.

Punk Institution Receives City Money for New Building: a major victory for ABC No Rio and its “culture of opposition since 1980.”

No Longer Empty: a collective of curators and artists steps up to take advantage of shuttered storefronts in NYC.

Art Deco Buildings: a blog documenting Art Deco architectural porn around the world. Yummy!

Turf War at the Hot Dog Cart: like unruly children at the playground, NYC’s Old School and New School street vendors battle it out with intimidation and tattling on each other.

Nearly Completed High-Rise Collapses in Shanghai: OMFG!

Cloverleaf Interchange Trivet by VisuaLingual

As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t know how to drive, but that doesn’t stop me from obsessing over the forms endemic to driving, such as the [actually lovely] shape of the cloverleaf interchange. This underappreciated form now graces the typically mundane cork trivet.

Sardana Print by roddy&ginger

The London-based studio of roddy&ginger has just released two versions of a super-cute, retro-inspired illustration of a Spanish village. Above is the design screenprinted by hand on linen cushions.

Cincinnati Is My Home

We created this new serigraph, entitled Cincinnati Is My Home, to commemorate our three-year anniversary in Cincinnati. The bizarre outline of the city is printed on a variety of the craziest vintage wallpapers ever created, which we got from our friends at Variegated. Each print in the edition of 20 measures 16×12 inches and is available framed at MiCA 12/v and unframed in our online shop.

Landscapes by Jen Nazzaro

Hummock by Jen Nazzaro

Jen Nazzaro is a Boston-area artist whose work is moody and almost abstract, yet distinctly references the New England shoreline. By limiting herself to the black and white tones of charcoal and graphite, Jen focuses on the ambient interplay of light and shadow.

Mosaic Bench in the California Woods

Back in April, we went out to California Woods for the Midwest Seed Bombs photoshoot, where we stumbled onto this lovely mosaic bench in a field! I can’t find any information about the artist or the project online; does anyone know anything about this?

Nature Reserve by Helen Nodding

Insect Bridge by Helen Nodding

Helen Nodding is a London-based artist who has created a series of miniature urban interventions. These Lilliputian structures animate overlooked spaces with a grand sense of fantasy that belies their small stature. These installations are part of her Nature Reserve series; check out Stories from Space for more of Nodding’s work.