S&W Cafeteria Building in Asheville

The old S&W Cafeteria building at 56 Patton Ave. in downtown Asheville is now an upscale restaurant called S&W Steak & Wine. In a town that seems filled with Art Deco architecture, this building is a gem, its façade covered in blue and gold geometric patterns.

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Vine Street Coasters by VisuaLingual

To some, this set of six coasters depicts Vine Street as it runs through downtown Cincinnati and Over-the-Rhine. To others, this is an abstract coffee table puzzle that can be arranged in countless ways. We produced these these bamboo coasters in extremely limited quantities, available exclusively in our online shop.

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VisuaLingual 2011 Gift Guide

If you’re in the midst of holiday shopping right now, give the gift of independent design! Here are my favorite gift picks from the various corners of the VL microcosm: friends, friends of friends, neighbors, all of them amazing, hard-working people who love what they do.

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Elsewhere

It’s Black Friday and, if you’re planning to shop till you drop, shop locally and buy handmade! If you’re in Cincinnati, check out the Cincinnati Design Guide for a list of my favorite independent stores and other interesting destinations. For stores elsewhere in the US, see the list of retailers that carry our work, or [...]

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Schiffs Ghost Sign in Cincinnati

This is a pretty typical terrazzo ghost sign, featuring chunky sans type and a color palette of speckled black and white with minty green and salmon accents [plus some urban filth, of course]. Spotted on Hamilton Ave. in Cincinnati’s Northside neighborhood.

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Wildlife Habitat Seed Bombs by VisuaLingual

Here at VL HQ, we like people, but we really love critters of all kinds. Our brand-new Wildlife Habitat seed bombs will help support a sustainable wildlife habitat in your backyard for birds, butterflies, bees, and small mammals. The seed mixture includes oats, wheat, rye, clover, and wildflowers. You can purchase our seed bombs during [...]

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Love Letter to Brooklyn by Stephen Powers

Philadelphia-born, NYC-based Stephen Powers, a.k.a. ESPO, recently painted these typographic murals in Brooklyn as part of his Love Letter series, which started in Philadelphia and continued in Syracuse.

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Eagles Home Ghost Tile in Asheville

I spotted this ghost tile announcing Eagles Home in a doorway at 75 Broadway in Asheville, NC. Below, I broke my own rule of only catching these phenomena in their “natural” habitat and moved the leaves to get a better look at the letters.

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Elsewhere

Holiday Gift Guide: Goody Two-Shoes: our seed bombs in Foam Magazine. Vine Street Circa 1973: courtesy of Fuck Yeah Cincinnati. Mercer Commons Design Gets Thumbs Down: the struggle to add appropriate infill to the historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati. What’s Your State Good at?: Ohio “currently ranks first in the production of Swiss cheese.” Who [...]

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Apollo Ghost Tile in Over-the-Rhine

I must have walked up and down Main St. between Liberty and Melindy Sts. in Over-the-Rhine hundreds of times before I finally noticed this tiled entryway [this storefront now houses The Gathering]. What was the Apollo?

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