Best of Philly

2024 Best Way to Discover Philly’s Green Spaces

The Routes to Roots Map

As part of a larger community-engagement project with creative colleague Laura Deutch, Philly illustrator Shira Walinsky hand-painted a multilingual map that shows you how to get to all sorts of gorgeous Philly green spaces using SEPTA’s vast network of buses. Find copies at the city’s central Regional Rail stations. Or take a peek online — though the physical map is much cooler. @Gettingtogreen.phl. Read More »

2023 Best Civic Art Project

Fabiola Lara’s Instagram “I Voted” stickers

We think it’s okay to admit that a small part of the appeal of voting is getting that sticker upon exiting the polling place and parading it around for the rest of the day. Illustrator Fabiola Lara gets that. So when Instagram reached out to her in March of last year for a series of digital election-season-themed stickers, she delivered. The colorful set of four, available in English and Spanish, has been shared by everyone from Joe Biden and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Selena Gomez and Kerry Washington. Read More »