About WebUrbanist | World’s Most Popular Urban Weblog
WebUrbanist covers the collective life of our times through the lens of creative visual culture in the beating hearts of our cities. From urban design to individual homes, and subversive street graffiti to compelling works of gallery art, our authors scour the net to find the most innovative, compelling and cutting-edge artworks and designs in the world. Our focus is on quality over quantity – publishing only once daily, WebUrbanist packs each article with asmany relevant images and links as possible, part of an attempt to be exhaustive informative as possible within any given subject area.
Webist Publishing:
WebUrbanist is at the core of Webist Media Publishing, an independent online publishing group that aim to educate and fascinate, providing unique original content to an audience of over a million art- and design-savvy 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.
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.
Press:
WebUrbanist has nearly 1,000,000 unique visitors each month. Our articles have featured on the front pages of social news sites includingMetafilter, 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 over200,000 regular RSS subscribers including the staff of Google Reader itself!
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!
Authors:
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 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 as amazing 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.
