Monsieur Boudin by Lab Partners

Here is a brand-new line of cards featuring Monsieur Boudin, designed by SF-based Lab Partners and published by Lagom Design. Monsieur Boudin is a lovable daschund who enjoys galavanting around Paris!

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Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: awesome stuff going on this weekend, from the Redtree Gallery to the Cincinnati Fire Museum. Cincinnati with Friends: a Chicagoan visits Cincinnati and, gasp, likes it! Bike Among the Ruins: the rise of bicycling culture in the Motor City? Mapping a Bird’s-Eye View of Foreclosure Misery: Damon Rich maps the foreclosure crisis [...]

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Original Paintings by Charley Harper

I love me some Charley Harper… His mosaic mural is one of my favorite Cincinnati finds. As much as I love his whimsical critters, I’m a city girl and, when I found out that his original Ford Times paintings have been rediscovered, I was most curious about seeing the range of subjects that he might [...]

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Coca Cola Plant in Indianapolis

This former Coca Cola Plant is on Massachusetts Avenue, just a few blocks past its hoppin’ stretch. The buildings are now used to house school buses for Indianapolis Public Schools and, once IPS gets a new bus facility, these structures will be redeveloped. Hopefully, all the Art Deco goodness will remain intact.

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Cincinnati Food Portraits by VisuaLingual

Celebrate the crazy food that’s indigenous to Cincinnati and the Southwestern Ohio region! This new series of three-color serigraphs, each measuring 7×5 inches and printed in an edition of 20, depicts a Cincinnatish food item rendered in retro candy colors.

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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 ArtWorks is [...]

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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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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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.

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