Home Coasters by Jen Pepper

How cute are these laser-cut wooden coasters? Jen Pepper of Pepper Sprouts and Upstate Fancy has filled her Etsy shop with clever, well-designed, place-centric goodies like these. Her thinking seems sort of parallel to ours; I love it!

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Clifton Heights Mural by Jenny Ustick

This ArtWorks mural by Jenny Ustick was recently completed, on the corner of McMillan and Wheeler in Clifton Heights. Like last year’s Campy Washington mural by Scott Donaldson, this one acts as a kind of “welcome” sign for the neighborhood and is filled with local architectural references.

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Serigraphs by Daria Tessler

Daria Tessler was born in Finland and grew up in LA, majoring in math and printmaking at UC Santa Cruz. She now lives in Brooklyn, where she is an artist, working primarily in screenprinting and pen and ink to create these psychedelic, children’s illustration-type images.

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Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: this weekend, a rare opportunity to discuss local architecture with none other than Dan of Queen City Survey, who has been your co-host for this weekly weekend lineup. Free Hugs Campaign: PDA with strangers. Mapping Main Street: “a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through stories, [...]

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People Will Always Need Plates

The studio of Hannah Dipper and Robin Farquhar, a.k.a. People Will Always Need Plates, uses “high quality, low volume batch production to create witty, thoughtful and stylish products as a direct antithesis to the current proliferation of cheap, throwaway design.”

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PLACEMADE: A VisuaLingual Work Survey Encore Presentation

Many thanks to those of you who attended our opening at MiCA 12/v last month. Mike and Carolyn have been generous enough to keep the display up for another month and we, in turn, have updated the wall with some other prints. This coming Friday night, we’ll have another reception coinciding with Final Friday in [...]

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The Outdoor Museum 2009

The Outdoor Museum, or TOM, is an outdoor exhibit of large-format design pieces, mounted as free-standing billboards. This temporary public art project by ArtWorks is currently on display at Mount Airy Forest.

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Ghost Sign in Columbus

A ghost sign spotted somewhere near downtown Columbus, on the same day that we spotted the crazy Nationwide ad and the limestone sofa by Robert Huff.

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A Farm Grows in Brooklyn

Meet Oscar Reginald Seaton, a Jamaican transplant living in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, who discusses the “urban farm” in his backyard. For over 40 years, he’s been growing cabbage, tomatoes, scallions, peas, radishes, and cucumbers, which he grows from his own seeds. See also A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

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Drawings by Luke Painter

Luke Painter is a Toronto-based artist who works in drawing, installation and animation. A selection of his India ink drawings is shown here, but make sure to also check out his amazing animations.

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