About WebUrbanist | World’s Most Popular Urban Weblog
What We Do: City life is at the heart of global change – and visual culture is at the center of those centers, reflecting our collective zeitgeist. From urban design and subversive art to stunning architecture, our authors scour the net to find the most creative, innovative and engaging works of art and design in the world. Each article contains as many relevant images and links as possible, part of an attempt to be exhaustive, responsible and informative as possible within any given subject area.
Together: WebUrbanist and WebEcoist comprise Webist Media, an independent online publishing group that aim to educate and fascinate, providing unique original content to an audience of over a million readers each and every month. Each article is carefully written and edited by contributing authors from around the world, but should you find errors feel free to …
Contact Us: We love to receive positive feedback, constructive criticism and new ideas. However, we do not accept press releases in any form – anything sent as a press release will be deleted without being read. That said, click here to use the contact form and select the subject carefully from the drop-down menu. Our apologies, but: we simply cannot respond to every suggestion and inquiry personally – thanks in advance for understanding.
Format: WebUrbanist has multiple articles per week – usually only one each day. The emphasis is on quality, well-researched and fully sourced articles on whatever the subject is. This is not a blog in the traditional sense (of many smaller posts published multiple times daily. It is, rather, a collective online urban magazine which we hope you will enjoy each and every time you open your inbox, click into your feed reader or visit the site.
Angel: Free-spirited to the extreme, you never know what Angel will write about next – she has covered everything from master photographers and mad motorcycles to seasonally-themed subjects such asarchitectural ginger-bread homes and holiday-style street art.
Delana: Our brilliant resident super-series author, Delana is the mastermind behind core content including the following 8-part comprehensive series and guides: 90 Unique Urban Furniture Designs, 70 Amazing Houses of the World, The Definitive Guide to Banksy Graffiti and Street Art and The Essential Beginner’s Guide to Guerrilla Marketing.
Kurt: Our steadfast switch-hitter, Kurt Kohlstedt (founder of Webist Media) tackles all kinds of subjects here and on WebEcoist and founded the classic 7 Wonders of the World series. His other articles address topics from abandoned placesto adaptive reuse, amazing tree houses to uncanny skyscraper farms, floating utopian designs to reused military sea forts, recycled furniture to trash art, and geek graffiti to shopdropping and droplifting.
Mike: Striving to be a full-time frugal-living digital nomad, Mike is a certified geek with a background in archeology and has an uncanny nose for finding dazzling designs of all kinds around general themes likegaming and specific subjects ranging from common household furniture such as chairs, tables, beds to crazy coat racks, clocks, lights, showers, radiators and toilets. Who ever thought home furnishings could be so cool?
Stephanie: The resident renaissance woman of Webist, Stephanie has covered every possible subject matter under the sun including daring digital design, lovely inverted logos, abstract computer art as well asamazing apartments, recycled architecture and innovative urbanism.
Steve: A stellar writer and amazing researcher, Steve has brought an twist of creative humor into the mix with articles on geek cake designs and brilliant book artists, extreme house boat designs and real-life nanotechnology applications, dramatic guerrilla marketing campaigns and steampunk art and fashion. Steve can also be found writing away about insane news and inventions of Japan over at InventorSpot.
Statistics: WebUrbanist has nearly 1,000,000 unique visitors each month. Our articles have featured on the front pages of social news sites including Metafilter, Digg, Reddit, Fark, StumbleUpon and ShoutWire. WebUrbanist has been written about and linked from major national websites and blogs including The Guardian, Gawker, Gizmodo, FOX, MSNBC, WebWare, Pronet, The MyBlogLog Blog, Wired, Mental Floss, Neatorama, Dark Roasted Blend and Deputy Dog. WebUrbanist is in the Alexa top 20K, Technorati top 500 and has a Google PageRank 6. Web Urbanist has over 200,000 regular RSS subscribers including the staff of Google Reader itself!
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Credits: All images with known sources are credited to said sources either immediately following the image or in the paragraph immediately following the image. If an image is being used on this site that you own and wish to have removed or that is credited incorrectly please contact us and we will respond promptly. All images are either shrunk or montaged to allow their use under Fair Use conditions.
Contact: Want to thank, compliment or berate us? If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, compliments or suggestions please don’t hesitate to contact us using the form linked in the second paragraph above – and be sure to use a helpful subject line. Thank you for stopping by – please feel free to sign up for our feed so you won’t miss an article and be sure to check out WebEcoist, our sister site.
