Little Free Library

Take a book. Return a book. What could be a lovelier, more neighborly gesture than a DIY library in your community? The Little Free Library is a network of small, weatherproof boxes, started in 2010 in the town of Hudson, WI and now spanning the globe, including a couple I’ve recently come across in Indianapolis.

Herzog Ghost Sign in Covington, KY

This terrazzo ghost sign for Herzog is located at 806 Madison Ave. in charming, sleepy downtown Covington, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. Herzog Jewelers still exists, albeit in nearby Fort Mitchell.

Landscapes by John Northcote Nash

Harbour Scene by John Northcote Nash

John Northcote Nash was born in London in 1893. Although he had no formal art training, he became an influential landscape painter, one of the founding members of the London Group, and a member of the New English Art Club.

Private Label Outdoor Supplies by VisuaLingual

When San Francisco-based retailer The Urban Deer asked about adding private label fatwood and fatdust to its outdoor-focused assortment, we were thrilled to oblige! The shop’s clean aesthetic dovetails nicely with ours, and the packaging turned out great, if I say so myself.

VisuaLingual Seed Bomb Promotion for 1 Hotels

For over six months now, we’ve been producing seed bomb promotions for 1 Hotels, a family of socially responsible boutique hotels with locations in New York City and Miami Beach.

Man on the Street Series by J. Seward Johnson Jr.

Carmel, Indiana is a posh New Urbanist community located just north of Indianapolis. If you know me, you know that’s not necessarily the kind of place where I might find myself, although I recently did on a rainy Saturday afternoon, where I stumbled on a few public sculptures from the Man on the Street series by J. Seward Johnson Jr..

Orinda Theater by Alexander Aimwell Cantin and Anthony B. Heinbergen

The Orinda Theater is the anchor of downtown in the pastoral East Bay town of Orinda, California. Designed by Alexander Aimwell Cantin [architecture] and Anthony B. Heinbergen [interior design], it opened in 1941.

Private Label Products by VisuaLingual

We moved from Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati to Brookside, Indianapolis just over a month ago, and we’re still in the midst of setting up our new production space, but that hasn’t stopped us from working on awesome projects for great clients like a line of private label seed bombs for the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe.

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Of course the Biltmore Estate in Asheville has a Cool House.

VisuaLingual Earth Day Seed Bomb Promotion

Earth Day is coming up on Wednesday! Here’s a project we designed and produced for the Skandalaris Center at Washington University in St. Louis to celebrate Earth Day and promote interdisciplinary innovation and entrepreneurship.