Enjoy Your Weekend: tons to do, including the Vine St. launch party and the ArtWorks Moving Sale; shop for a good cause!

New Botanical Prints from VisuaLingual: The Urban Field Guide likes our new Wild Edibles prints; we like Kristen’s blog!

Cincinnati Shopping Guide: Grace Dobush, who organized the recent Crafty Supermarket in Northside, pulls together some last-minute gift ideas from some of those vendors.She recommends our seed bombs.

The Metropole Is Our Home: reposting from CityKin so that more of my Cincinnati neighbors have a chance to see this.

St. Louis Gateway Arch Grounds Design Competition: the Urbanophile dissects recent civic design projects in the Midwest and offers some unsolicited advice to St. Louis.

Home Wreckage: a group exhibit in Chicago of “subversive musings on domestic ideals.”

The Rosenbaum House: Frank Lloyd Wright in Alabama: yup.

Enjoy Your Weekend: local shopping, a live Nativity scene, carriage rides, and Cajun music this weekend, but let’s not forget that Hanukkah starts at sunset tonight!

Cincinnati Inspired Design: VisuaLingual: aww, Becky in ATL has much love for VL!

Cedric Michael Cox: Structured Soul: arts writer Geoffrey Dobbins reviews Soul within Structure, an exhibit of new paintings by Cedric Michael Cox, currently on view at the Contemporary Arts Center.

The Evolution of the College Dorm: fascinating slideshow.

Green-Wood Discovery: the Brooklyn cemetery has a blog!

Domosfera: cool Polish decor rag.

Frank Gehry Designs Hat for Lady Gaga: yup.

TV Dinner by Ryan Kapp

Born and raised in Columbus, artist and illustrator Ryan Kapp now makes Chicago his home, where he creates these geometric, flat-colored paintings of mostly suburban-looking homes.

Elizabeth, IL No.1 by Ryan Kapp

Here and Somewher Else by Ryan Kapp

Turning Point by Ryan Kapp

Interior at Night by Ryan Kapp

Outside In by Ryan Kapp

Migration by Ryan Kapp

Is it just me, or was Ryan Kapp once a graffiti writer?

Enjoy Your Weekend: shop till you drop!

Annual Charley Harper Show: whether to shop or just to look, check out Fab Frames this Saturday. You’ll get a free print!

70 Years Later: Cincinnati Revisited spotlights the photography of Michael G. Smith, who has captured views identical to the Cincinnati photographs by his grandfather, Nelson RonSheim, 70 years later. Fascinating!

The Secret Bowling Alley: check out what these people found in their basement.

100 x 100: photographer Michael Wolf documented 100 100-square foot homes in Hong Kong.

Kurokawa Nakagin Capsule Hotel: Grain Edit shows us this incomparable capsule hotel in downtown Tokyo, built in 1972.

Operation NICE: Melissa Morris Ivone wants us all to be nicer to each other.

Cincinnatian Alli, the lovely lass behind One Pearl Button, attended last Saturday’s Crafty Supermarket in Northside, and was kind enough to post photos of her purchases, including some of our own work!

Above, our Coney Island vintage typography print. Below, the Bar 1132 coasters:

She got there early and was lucky enough to receive a swag bag, which included one of our penny farthing make-ready prints:

If you didn’t get yours, we still have a few available in the print section of our online shop. Each one is unique, printed on [sometimes layered] test prints from our previous projects. $10, postage paid.

Alli also inexplicably sent us this photo of a couple of wanna-be hipster doofuses. I have no idea what’s going on here. I think he’s saying, “What the what?” and she’s wondering if someone farted. Who are these crazy kids?

If you haven’t yet checked out Allie’s blog One Pearl Button, do so now — it’s filled with gorgeous photos, crafty projects, funky fashion, and tons of visual inspiration. Thanks for the photos, Alli!

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.

You can purchase these lamps via Artware Editions for $2000 each, or $5500 for a set of three.

Another place-centric lighting project that I’ve written about is the perforated lighting by Elsa Somano, which achieves a similarly ethereal effect through very different means.

The more I look at the images above, the less convinced I am of the generic, utilitarian design of the bases. I think the imagery may be more effective on a large drum pendant shade, or a table lamp with a less visible base. Oh, well, I’m nitpicking.

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.

Via AT.

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.

Hmm, it’s like a Type 1 exercise taken to a beautiful extreme. It could go even father, though — what if Thomas Broomé were to meet Charlie Krazer, the man who created the Sharpie mural in his basement rec room?

These illustrations appeared in an ad campaign for the Yazigi English School. Via AT.