VisuaLingual Featured on Etsy Homepage

Today, we are featured on the Etsy homepage with a sampling of our work and an interview in which we discuss our inspiration, process, and a bit of background context. It’s such a thrill for us! Of course, the VL blog is mentioned in the interview as a place where inspiration gets filed so, for [...]

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Last Week to See HOME WORK at the Betts House

If you haven’t yet checked out HOME WORK, our exhibit at the Betts House, or if you simply can’t get enough, now’s your last chance — it’s open 11am-2pm on Tue, Wed and Thu, and also 12:30-5pm this Saturday for a Family Fun Saturday. This intimate historic home is perfect for displaying our small, architecturally [...]

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Stay Up! Cincinnati by Able Projects

Congratulations to Cincinnati’s own Able Projects on a fantastic installation that opened at the Contemporary Arts Center last Saturday. Entitled Stay Up! Cincinnati, the street art-style project highlights some of Cincinnati’s more notable hometown heroes and heroines, including Annie Oakley, Charles Ezzard and Doris Day.

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Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: Final Friday in OTR, etc. Northside Exploring Limits on Chain Businesses: Building Cincinnati is back with Cincinnati-centric reportage. Factories of My Fathers: CityKin shows us a bit of his family’s history in Cincinnati’s old factories. Erasmus Hall and Its Offspring: the NYT checks out the architecture of the old public schools of [...]

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Victorian Penny Farthing Make-Ready Prints by VisuaLingual

You may remember that, last November, we participated in the Crafty Supermarket, a craft/design fair at the Northside Tavern in Northside, Cincinnati. For that event, we were asked to contribute something to the swag bags that were given out to the first 50 people, and we came up with a funky image of a Victorian [...]

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San Francisco Series by August Table

When urban planner Cherry Chaicharn relocated from her beloved San Francisco to Hong Kong, she founded August Table, a company that creates city-centric tableware. Her first collection of dishes celebrates the neighborhoods of San Francisco, including Glen Park/Noe Valley, Castro/Mission Districts, South of Market, and North Beach.

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Hukon Mfg. Ghost Sign in OTR

On 14th St. near Vine in OTR stands this humble building with its “Hukon Mfg.” ghost sign in chunky sans serif letters. I dig it.

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Seed Bombs in Downingtown, PA

This morning, I get to say hello to Downington, PA, where the shop Studio 3 is now carrying our East Coast seed bombs. We make them by hand in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, using a mix of bird-, bee- and butterfly-friendly wildflowers native to the East Coast. Five seed bombs are packed into each screenprinted muslin bag, [...]

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Elsewhere

Seed Bomb Factory: our friend Chris visited the VL production facility and took some dreamy photos of our seed bombs. Back from the Future: Cincinnati scenes in 1987 and today, by Queen City Discovery. Farm Fresh Vending Machines: Urban Field Guide investigates the marriage of the vending machine and the farm stand. Melrose Receives First [...]

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Unmonumental Paintings by Nicholas Sistler

Chicago-based artist Nicholas Sistler paints decidedly unmonumental subjects using an exaggerated sense of scale and space, reminiscent of the early works of Surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico. With lurid colors and menacing perspective, these images disturb the perceived quiet and comfort of domestic space.

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