OTR and Cincinnati Tea Towels by VisuaLingual

Our Over-the-Rhine and Cincinnati vintage typography tea towels sold out almost instantly a year ago, so we’ve printed a new batch in different colors for this holiday season. They make great gifts and, this year, you can buy a matching pair in graphite on yellow or chocolate on lime. Pick yours up at MiCA 12/v [...]

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Möbius Ship by Tim Hawkinson

Möbius Ship by Tim Hawkinson has got to be one of my favorite pieces of art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Made of wood, plastic, Plexiglas, rope, staples, string, and twist ties, it’s very intricate and incredibly well-detailed.

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Daybreak in O’Bryonville by Kate Holterhoff

According to Wikipedia, Daybreak in O’Bryonville, the new ArtWorks mural by Kate Holterhoff, borrows motifs from Maxwell Parrish’s iconic Daybreak. While the mural isn’t funny like Scott Donaldson’s Campy Washington, and while it doesn’t pull you into a story like Christian Schmit’s An Epic Tale of Time and Town, its vivid palette is effective in [...]

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Lighting by Katrín Sigurðardóttir

Born in Reykjavik and now living in NYC, Katrín Sigurðardóttir is a sculptor and installation artist who has teamed up with Artware Editions for the release of these limited-edition lamps. The shades depict scenes of Ísafjörður, a remote village in Northwestern Iceland.

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Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: art and sports. Daisy Mae’s Market: let’s all welcome this new produce vendor to Findlay Market. The Art World Goes Local: according to the Wall Street Journal, the mantra “buy local” now extends to the art world. Space Hotel Says it’s on Schedule to Open in 2012: a bit of anti-local news. [...]

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Provident Camera Ghost Sign in Downtown Cincinnati

When Provident Camera closed earlier this year, I didn’t really hear people mourn its loss. Maybe they accepted that stores like this no longer need to exist in neighborhoods like this. For us, though, the loss was significant, since now we have to go to Kenwood for our specialized light bulbs. In any case, here [...]

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New Paintings by Andy Detskas

Over a year ago, I wrote about the work of my talented friend and former schoolmate Andy Detskas, and it’s time to check up on his work again. The Chicago-based designer and artist has been painting more robots and ghosts onto vintage pastoral paintings. The compositions are becoming more complicated, with tighter incorporation of his [...]

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Cincinnati Footprint Print by VisuaLingual

Hot off the presses is our largest serigraph yet –20×28 inches, and three colors. The print shows the Ohio River, downtown, Over-the-Rhine, Mt. Auburn, Clifton, the University of Cincinnati, and parts of Queensgate, the West End, and Mt. Adams. You can recognize the major buildings and landmarks by their distinctive shapes. The coordinates in the [...]

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Autumn in Over-the-Rhine

Being from the Northeast, I don’t find Cincinnati’s fall foliage all that impressive. Nonetheless, I’m here now, so I’ve spent the last couple of weeks documenting the best examples of fall color I could find. Over-the-Rhine’s distinguished architecture is, of course, a photogenic backdrop. I’m pretty happy with the results.

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River of Ohio Table Runner by VisuaLingual

Just completed is our brand-new table runner depicting the Ohio River as rendered in a surveyor’s 1766 drawing, before the founding of Cincinnati. Printed in chocolate brown ink on heavy-weight linen, it measures 19×59 inches and is available in pale green or pale blue at MiCA 12/v in Over-the-Rhine.

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