Seed Bombs at UncommonGoods

Pretty awesome news for our little Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati design studio — all six of our regional seed bomb varieties are now available via the online and catalog retailer UncommonGoods!

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Elsewhere

Gone to the Dogs: Ruff Up Your Wedding: our Dog & Cat Friendly seed bombs in a wedding favor round-up on Petal+Handmade=Love. Soapdish: Persevering on Preservation: Casey Coston on the state of historic preservation in Cincinnati. Visiting the Tabernacle: Chris Glass checks out the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City. New York City Commuters [...]

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Davis Furniture Ghost Sign Cornucopia in Over-the-Rhine

Situated at the entrance to Over-the-Rhine on the Northwest corner of Main St. and Central Parkway, the old Davis Furniture building is a study in black and yellow, covered in disparate ghost signage.

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NYC Paintings by Bennett Vadnais

Bennett Vadnais is a classically trained painter whose work doesn’t seem to be of this moment at all. Born in Port Angeles, WA, he now lives in NYC, where he teaches painting, conducts plein air workshops and paints landscapes, such as the one above, which could easily be of Over-the-Rhine.

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Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room by Adler & Sullivan

Got ornament? The Chicago Stock Exchange Building by Adler & Sullivan was built in 1893-4. When the building was demolished in 1972, sections of the trading room’s stenciled decorations, molded plaster capitals, and stained glass were preserved, and the entire room was reconstructed at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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VisuaLingual in Cincinnati Magazine

Again! It’s so awesome [and so rare] that we receive this kind of press exposure for anything other than our seed bombs. Our Cincinnati tea towel is in the January issue of Cincinnati Magazine, in a product round-up entitled “Type Set.” This tea towel is available in our online shop.

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Elsewhere

Dream Wedding: Favors: Kate and Oli like our seed bombs as wedding favors! The Venerable Zig Zag Records Has Closed Down!: a Brooklyn music icon is gone for good. How Boomboxes Changed the Streets Forever: fascinating survey. Making Cities for People: written by Greg Vendena, a former schoolmate of mine who recently moved from Detroit [...]

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Illustrations by Dante Terzigni

Educated in Columbus, illustrator Dante Terzigni now lives in Cleveland, where he creates amazing collage-based editorial illustrations for clients including the New York Times, American Lawyer, and the Washington Post.

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Seed Bombs in Roanoke

Our seed bombs are now available at Urban Gypsy, a boutique specializing in “an eccentric assortment of unusual findings,” which opened last month at 1320 Grandin Rd. SW, in the Historical Grandin Village area of Roanoke, VA.

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Folly by Beth Katleman

Folly is an installation by Beth Katleman, that’s debuting this week at the Greenwich House. The project is a kind of three-dimensional toile wallpaper, whose pastoral vignettes contain some surprising, even sinister, elements.

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