Fake Subway Maps by Transit Authority Figures

Tee-hee! Northampton, MA-based studio Transit Authority Figures creates pretty much the least likely subway maps ever, for places like Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Cod, and the Hamptons. Oi, I’m laughing so hard that my sides are starting to hurt!

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Ghost Sign in Brighton

On Central Parkway at Brighton Place, the old Brighton Fireproof Storage Co. looks like a veritable ghost sign castle perched on a hill.

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Toile Bone China by 3cubed

The Glasgow-based studio Timorous Beasties is no stranger to controversy with its infamous Glasgow and London toiles that depict a less-than-pastoral vision of urban life in those cities. 3cubed, the sister company to the original studio, has isolated scenes from the London toile onto a set of bone china.

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Seed Bombs by VisuaLingual

Practice random acts of gardening with our new seed bombs! We made them using a mix of wildflowers native to the Midwest. Five seed bombs are packed into each screenprinted muslin bag. These are available at Outside, 16 East 12th St. in OTR.

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Playa Vista Project by Joshua Callaghan

Joshua Callaghan, who earned his BA in Cultural Anthropology at UNC Asheville and his MFA in New Genres at UCLA, created this long-term temporary public art project for Playa Vista, CA. These stickers depict what you’d see if this infrastructure were not there.

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Flower Carpet in Fountain Square

This year’s Flower Carper in Fountain Square was designed by Joel Knueven, and today is your last chance to check it out [it's a perfect day for it, too]. I like this abstract circular design even more than last year’s butterfly by Jan Brown Checco.

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Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: lots of art, plants, and plants-as-art this weekend! R Crumb’s Short History of America: the world according to R Crumb. (Fake) Subway Advisory!: a prank, or is the MTA finally being perfectly honest? New York City : 1961 vs. 2009: identical views of NYC, taken almost 50 years apart. Where the Streets [...]

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Alphabet Exhibit in Baltimore

Once upon a time, Michael Stout, the other half of VisuaLingual, designed a family of typefaces based on The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch. Entitled Imageability, the family includes Paths [above], Edges, Districts, Nodes, and Landmarks — five ways in which the city is experienced and understood.

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The United Plates by Shorthanded Studio

John Wayne Holcomb, a.k.a. Shorthanded Studio, is a Topeka-based illustrator who recently completed The United Plates, a series of screenprinted posters depiciting each state as a dish. This series is similar to a project by Frank Chimero is that the content of each state is only related to the state based on shape. I think [...]

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Rainbow Sunset in the City

Last night’s rainbow, and therefore my photo, was much more dramatic and impressive than the one I saw last June. At the end of the rainbow is Kroger, of course.

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