Reading Time: 2 minutes Look close, or you’ll miss it. Camouflaged like legitimate street signs in public spaces, you’ll find these fun urban interventions in and around Sydney. Created by artist Michael Pederson (aka Miguel Marquez Outside) these mini signs are bound to grab your attention. A park solitude rating guide, oversized emergency panic buttons, or personal space preference …
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G-Shock vs State Tretyakov Gallery
Reading Time: 2 minutes G-Shock’s lookbook for its Spring/Summer 2016 collection features skaters in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The photographs portray a distinct contrast of what one would expect to see in an art gallery, but that’s what makes the shots so appealing. They come across as rebellious and youthful with the streetwear-adorned men posing in front of …
Las Etnias
Reading Time: 2 minutes ‘We are all connected,’ says street artist creating record-breaking mural for Rio 2016 Games Graffiti isn’t an Olympic sport, but if it were then Eduardo Kobra would win gold for his 2787 square meter mural that he painted for this year’s Rio Olympics. The mural, titled Las Etnias (The Ethnicities) stands a astonishing 15 meters …
Playing with water and the Monsoon Project
Reading Time: 2 minutes If the rain can be considered to be one of mother nature’s gifts to all living things, it appears that she also gifted life to a very special kind of creativity – one that only comes to light when it’s raining. Superhydrophobic street art uses a water repellent coating to create designs which appear only in the …
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Google Street Art
Reading Time: 2 minutes Everyone is familiar with Google Street view, made possible by their custom-made panoramic camera. Thanks to these custom-creations, Google has now turned the focus of these cameras to something other than maps but rather the launch of their latest project “Street Art”, a new initiative of theirs in an attempt to document street art all …
OBEY THE GIANT – The Shepard Fairey Story
Reading Time: 2 minutes This film is based on the true story of Shepard Fairey’s first act of street art during his time at Rhode Island School of Design from 1989-1992 and directed buy Julian Marshall. Fairey created the “André the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign in 1989, while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), the Obey Giant was …
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GAIA’s Street Art
Reading Time: 2 minutes GAIA is street artist in lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and Baltimore, MD. With this medium it is quite hard to create a lot of detail in your work, but GAIA astonishes me with the level of detail in his work. His work has depth and a lot of vibrant colors. You are sure not …
Agostino Iacurci
Reading Time: < 1 minute Illustration, especially at a large scale is always impressive. Here is the work of Agostino Iacurci a very talented mural artist and his mural in Turin, Italy. Sourced here
Hands Project
Reading Time: 2 minutes It started as the “Press The Button Project” by ‘two student in Ljubljana with a lot of time’, Octopus & Pauer. Now the hands project is a social commentary with the aim to make people laugh a little, more information here and here found via this source Hands Project from Pauerr on Vimeo.
Keys to the City
Reading Time: 2 minutes Creative team, Invisible Creature was recently commissioned by Vulcan Real Estate to create a 100′ x 30′ mural that reflects what building a city would look like, as part of the new Amazon.com building. I grew an instant liking to this because it represents the beauty of street art in a fun and whimsical way. The colours are vibrant and exciting and …