NYC Landscapes by Geoffrey Johnson

Corner at the Park by Geoffrey Johnson

Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, Geoffrey Johnson graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and is now based in NYC, a city whose anonymous residents and moody public spaces he captures in his atmospheric oil paintings.

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VisuaLingual Seed Bombs for the Philadelphia Flower Show

We were honored to produce custom seed bombs for the Philadelphia Flower Show, taking place 28 Feb-8 Mar 2015 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Hosted by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, this is the longest-running and largest indoor flower show in the world!

Mixed Media Landscapes by Michele Kishita

Inundation by Michele Kishita

Michele Kishita is a Philadelphia-based artist whose mixed media landscapes contain references to her rural Pennsylvania childhood as well as to time spent in Japan.

Indianapolis Central Library by Paul Philippe Cret with Zantzinger, Borie & Medary

This is a bit pathetic: I lived in Indianapolis for two years, not far from the Central Library, and I’ve visited countless times before finally stepping foot inside this building. Wow!

Signature Mix 2014: Trade Show Friends

We’re back in the swing of things after having a booth at Signature Mix at the Javits Center last month. Today, I’d like to introduce you to some of the amazing, talented makers we met at the show.

Elsewhere

Cedric Michael Cox | Visual Artist: I just finished the new site for my OTR-based friend and studio neighbor; if you spot any egregious errors, please direct them to my attention.

Springtime Garden Wedding: some love for our personalized seed bomb favors.

Liberty St. “Road Diet” Advances, to Be Bid by Nov. 2014: a plan to eliminate the barrier between the Southern and Northern portions of Over-the-Rhine.

Aggregate Dialect Difference: the Cincinnati dialect is least like NYC, Newark, Jersey City, Boston, or Philly.

The Heidelberg Project: A Resilient Community Rebuilds, Again: the latest on Detroit’s Heidelberg Project after last month’s tragic fire.

Is the End Nearing for Odessa Café and Bar on Avenue A?: the end of an era for a neighborhood icon? Pretty soon I won’t even recognize my hometown.

Fake Shop Fronts Used to Make Towns Seem Neater for G8: in Northern Ireland, The Society of the Simulacrum has popped up.

Neighborwoods by Aymie Spitzer

The Brooklyn-based designer Aymie Spitzer has created Neighborwoods, a series of maps that are drawn by hand and then laser-engraved into unfinished aromatic cedar. Here are Brooklyn, Philadelphia, London, Barcelona, and Paris.

The Magnificent Map of Rap Names by Pop Chart Lab

Brooklyn-based Pop Chart Lab is a collaboration between a book editor and a graphic designer whose goal is “to render all of human experience in chart form.” No big, right? Shown here, The Magnificent Map of Rap Names features 636 rap names screenprinted with gold ink on 39″x27″ black paper. It’s not a map in the cartographic sense, but it’s close enough for me.

Autocomplete Exhibition Catalog by VisuaLingual

The exhibition I organized at Visionaries & Voices, Autocomplete: A Collaborative Coloring Book Exhibit is on view in the V&V Gallery through the end of June, and the catalog is now available for purchase online.

Area Code Project by Mike McQuade

Philadelphia-born, Chicago-based designer Mike McQuade initiated the ongoing Area Code Project — a series of posters celebrating various area codes. Thanks to Ludacris for introducing this topic in a most appropriately cheesy way!