Elsewhere

OTR Tragedy: Smitty’s Burns: The Boilover has lots of depressing photos of the Smitty’s fire earlier this week. Future Of Retail: Sowing The Seeds Of Playful Disruption: PSFK likes our seed bombs. Fly, Pig, Fly: the talented Paper Acorn likes our Vine St. print. VisuaLingual Seed Bombs at Anthropologie: Lost at E Minor likes our [...]

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VisuaLingual Seed Bombs All Over

This post could be called Our Friends in Far-Flung Places Have an Almost Infinite Capacity to Humor My Ridiculous Requests. When I asked people we know to stop by their local Anthropologie stores and take photos of the seed bomb displays, I got replies from all over the US! Above is what we saw at [...]

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Smitty’s, RIP

I haven’t yet seen it in person but, apparently, a three-alarm fire broke out about five hours ago in one of the buildings that houses Smitty’s, the clothing store on Vine St. in Over-the-Rhine, whose amazing typographic cacophony I’ve written about here before.

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Seed Bombs in San Francisco

Our West Coast seed bombs are now available at Kingdom of Herbs in San Francisco. Located in the Ferry Building Marketplace along the Embarcadero at the foot of Market St., the shop specializes in organic plant starts, gardening tools and accessories, and books.

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A Corner Store Once More?

This one goes out to those of you with grand ideas and deep pockets: with the number of destination shopping and dining options on the rise in Over-the-Rhine, can you shift your focus to include the more mundane, low-order needs of the residents? How about turning this storefront, which once housed Bang’s Mkt., back into [...]

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Elsewhere

Enjoy Your Weekend: hella sports, and an art event benefitting a great cause. Not Just Another Night Downtown: Schwartz checked out a celebration of the creative career of one Anne Wainscott, who worked as an illustrator for Shillito’s department store and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Little Miami and the B&O SW Spring Grove Industrial Track: Abandoned [...]

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PostCarden by A Studio for Design

Designed by London-based A Studio for Design, PostCarden is a new spin on a postcard — it opens up into a three-dimensional garden, which is then planted with the enclosed cress seeds. Like a Chia Pet, the seeds grow in a matter of days to fill in the garden.

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Future Blooms by Keep Cincinnati Beautiful

Keep Cincinnati Beautiful is a local non-profit organization that educates and encourages individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community environments. As part of their current Future Blooms project, the organization has been resurfacing the boards installed on vacant properties with representations of windows, curtains, doors, and window boxes.

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US State Pendants by Truche

Chicago-based Truche creates charming little pendants of US states. How’s your knowledge of geography? Can you name all the states pictured?

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Seed Bombs in Seattle

It’s always exciting when independent retailers contact us about carrying our work. It’s especially exciting when a brand-new shop wants our work to be part of the store opening! So, when Sam of Fleurt placed an order for our West Coast seed bombs, we were thrilled to fill it. Her store just opened over the [...]

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