Signs of the Times by Seyed Alavi

Signs of the Times is a public art project by Seyed Alavi on utility boxes in Emeryville, CA. Alavi created the Flying Carpet in the Sacramento Airport I wrote about last year, so this project was on my Bay Area to-do list. Unfortunately, I only saw the above sign in person; below are a few [...]

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While You Were Out

If, like me, you live in Cincinnati’s basin, you probably encounter signs like this every weekend, as you try to run errands and generally live your day-to-day life in a neighborhood that doesn’t always accommodate its residents. I’ve come up with an quick and easy way to remind businesses of our presence.

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Elsewhere

Get Fired Up at Funke Fired Arts!: my feature on one of the most unique creative facilities in Cincinnati. Suburban Tipi: this project by Cranbrook student John Paananen takes “the fused nomadic home designs of the yurt, tipi, and igloo” and slips “the straitjacket of suburban values, materials, and methods of construction over them.” Nastiest [...]

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I LEGO N.Y.

Oh, my… The Lego shenanigans just keep coming and coming and coming, this time courtesy of Berlin-based illustrator Christoph Niemann in his latest piece for the NYT.

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Woodblock Prints by Katsuyuki Nishijima

I won’t bore you with the snowy photos I took yesterday, since they look just like my shots from last week. Instead, I’ll share woodcuts by one of my favorite artists, Katsuyuki Nishijima, who was born in 1945 and is now based in Kyoto. He is a master of Ukiyoe, or the Japanese woodblock print.

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Illustrations by Max Dalton

Max Dalton is an illustrator who has lived in NYC, Barcelona, and Paris and currently calls Buenos Aires home. Funny work and a great eye for color. Via Grain Edit.

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Better Living through Expectation Management

According to a recent Pew Research Trust survey, 84% of the people surveyed who do not live in Cincinnati would not like to live here. Cincinnati is marginally more popular than Cleveland and Detroit. But, only 23% of the respondents even claim cities as “their favorite community type.”

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Dispatchwork by Jan Vormann

Fun with Duplo! Berlin-based Jan Vormann “repairs” brick walls with colored blocks as part of his Dispatchwork installation project. Above is one of his walls in Bocchignano, Italy, and below is Tel Aviv, Israel.

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