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 [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Cincinnati Is My Home
Posted in art, cincinnati, VisuaLingual news, tagged cartography, cincinnati, pattern, urban life on June 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Landscapes by Jen Nazzaro
Posted in art, tagged aspen, boston, landscape, malden, maritime life on June 29, 2009 | 6 Comments »
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
Posted in art, cincinnati, close look, tagged california, cincinnati, public art, rural life on June 28, 2009 | 7 Comments »
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
Posted in architecture, art, tagged architecture, DIY, landscape, london, melbourne, small town life, urban life on June 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
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.
Elsewhere
Posted in elsewhere, tagged architecture, cartography, cincinnati, DIY, ithaca, new york city, over-the-rhine, seattle, urban life on June 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Enjoy Your Weekend: tonight’s a big night in Over-the-Rhine, but there’s tons going on all weekend. Staking a Claim in OTR: kudos to Jessie Cundiff for everything she’s been doing over on Main St. The Self-Service City: in Seattle and beyond, city life is becoming “shrunken, less personal and meaner on one level, more neighborly [...]
Seed Bombs at Park+Vine
Posted in cincinnati, VisuaLingual news, tagged chicago, cincinnati, columbus, DIY, over-the-rhine, urban life on June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Our Midwest Seed Bombs are now available at Over-the-Rhine’s own Park+Vine, in addition to Outside, also in OTR, as well as Jayson Home & Garden in Chicago, Rose Bredl in Columbus, and our own online shop. We’re also adding a bunch of new work to our own online shop this week. Tee-hee!
Harlem Renaissance by Immortal Technique
Posted in inspiration, tagged lima, new york city, urban life on June 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A song about urban planning? Yeah, sort of, courtesy of Lima-born, NYC-raised independent rapper/activist Immortal Technique. [Sorry about the lack of visuals!]
Exposed at ArtWorks Gallery
Posted in art, cincinnati, VisuaLingual news, tagged architecture, cincinnati, downtown, over-the-rhine, urban life on June 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Exposed features work by over 70 of the top 100 artists from the 2008 Secret ArtWorks event. That event featured over 1,200 works of art created by artists whose identities were concealed until their work was purchased. A jury selected the top 100 Secret Works of Art by artists whose identities and current works are [...]
Map Prints by Famille Summerbelle
Posted in art, home decor, tagged cartography, interior, london, paris, peacehaven, sign, typography, urban life on June 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Famille Summerbelle is a small studio based in Peacehaven, UK, which specializes in “decoration & accessories for children’s rooms.” Here are their brand-new prints of Paris and London, based on original papercut designs and printed on embossed paper.
Summer Celebration Recap 09
Posted in art, cincinnati, close look, fashion, home decor, VisuaLingual news, tagged cincinnati, DIY, over-the-rhine, pattern, sign, typography, urban life on June 21, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Here are some quick photos from yesterday’s OTR/Gateway Summer Celebration. It was a hot but beautiful day, and we were having too much fun to notice that we were slowly turning into sticky, sunburned raisins.





