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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Thank you, Becky, for interviewing me as part of the Etsy Designers at Home series on Houzz. Check out our decor porn in Etsy Designers at Home: VisuaLingual!
Remember Charlie Krazer, who decorated his basement walls with $10 worth of Sharpies? London-based artist Charlotte Mann takes that idea ten steps further with her own interior mural commissions.
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Enjoy Your Weekend: lots going on this weekend, including Oktoberfest Zinzinnati, but you already knew that, right?
Cincinnati Park[ing] Day 2009 Locations: check out all the shenanigans being organized by your neighbors today in parking spaces downtown and in Over-the-Rhine.
Raymond Thunder-Sky Legacy Mural: artist Cedric Michael Cox worked with Antonio Adams and a team of ArtWorks apprentices to create this mural on the side of the Visionaries & Voices building in Northside.
Overlooked Cincinnati: everyone, meet the latest member of the Cincinnati Minutia Militia [found via Stop Working, Start Living].
A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City: David Byrne [David Byrne!] discusses the elements needed for a livable city.
Winnipeg: Love and Hate: a bit like this blog, but with better photography.
Riihitie 20: The Aalto Family Home, Studio & Laboratory: wow!
Thomas Broomé was born in Malmö, Sweden, educated in Gothenburg and Stockholm, and now creates strange, often interactive sculptures and installations. The project of his that sticks out for me is Modern Mantra, a series of pen and ink drawings of interior landscapes, painstakingly rendered using the words that describe them.
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Enjoy Your Weekend: from gangsters to comedians, and practically everyone in between, there’s tons of fun to be had this weekend in Cincinnati.
The New American Dream: Renting: “Home should be a place to build a household and a life, a respite from the heartless world, not a pot of gold.”
Home Is a Four Letter Word: the concept of home in art examined by the excellent SFMOMA blog.
What Should Brooklyn’s Currency Look Like?: the Ithaca Hours currency model is gaining traction in Brooklyn!
The Big Draw of a GPS Run: “they are neo-cartographers, jumbo-size doodlers and bipedal pencils, mapping their track lines across cities, roads and farms, and sharing them online.”
ReBurbia: A Suburban Design Competition: check out the results that rethink McMansions, big box stores, strip malls, parking lots and more.
This Is One Wall Shepard Fairey Wants to Keep Free of Self-Expression: pot, meet kettle.
One Chair Only by Nick Patten
Nick Patten was born in Troy, NY in 1953 and attended art school in Albany. He paints very quiet, melancholy interiors filled with soft, ambient light. His work, in a way, reminds me of two photographers I’ve highlighted before — Jodi Boatman and Craig McCormick.
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The offices of the Haile Foundation in downtown Cincinnati needed more privacy for the main conference room, which is separated from the entry foyer only by a glass wall. What would be more appropriate for such a locally-minded organization than an image of the Ohio River and its environs?
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Yahtzee by Ann Toebbe
Ann Toebbe was born in Cincinnati, educated in Cleveland, NYC, New Haven, and Germany, is now living in Chicago. Her work, rendered from memories of her Midwestern upbringing, mythologizes domestic life and its accoutrements, without including people. A few of her paintings are available as prints via 20×200.
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Enjoy Your Weekend: awesome stuff going on this weekend, from the Redtree Gallery to the Cincinnati Fire Museum.
Cincinnati with Friends: a Chicagoan visits Cincinnati and, gasp, likes it!
Bike Among the Ruins: the rise of bicycling culture in the Motor City?
Mapping a Bird’s-Eye View of Foreclosure Misery: Damon Rich maps the foreclosure crisis onto the NYC panorama at the Queens Museum of Art.
Covered in Umbrellas: university students in Talca, Chile create a gorgeous, temporary public art installation using umbrellas.
Laser-Cut Art Book by Olafur Eliasson: from the artist who brought waterfalls to NYC last summer, here’s a laser-cut negative space rendering of his house in 85:1 scale.
Twitch: Hideous Sunday hunts down Mick Wiggins’ work in BART stations.
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