From 3D graffiti to light art, these works reflect the cutting edge of contemporary urban street art and design. These graffiti and street artists employee the latest techniques, creative materials, and unusual strategies to challenge the conventional stencil-and-spray-paint approach that most people think of when it comes to public drawing and wall graffiti the world over.
Appearing on the streets in the most unexpected ways, faux severed limbs can be funny, disgusting or just strange - but they're always head-turning.
This audacious art project is based on the Mongolian Death Worm - a creature of nightmares, spewing flesh-eating acid as it terrorizes a population.
Artist Strook uses a pressure washer to remove moss from a wall in certain patterns, revealing a mural of an urban scene.
This stunning perspectival art project takes the wonderfully windy streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil and layers a new level of meaning on their walls.
A new twist on the centuries-old tradition of the mobile and homeless communicating via shorthand markers, left to denote different risks and advantages to illicit living spaces.
Nicholas Hanna is a Canadian artist who has poured new life into a traditional art form, turning a tricycle into a means of rapidly deploying Chinese lettering in liquid form.
Yarn bombing is graffiti that grandmothers approve of! They consist of quickly knitted additions to street objects and sculptures. Why? Because it's fun!
These five street art projects, including 'Before I Die', invite participants to alter, comment upon or ponder their urban surroundings in new ways.
Graffiti tags have blossomed into letters and words that celebrate typography itself, applied to urban settings like shutters, fences and streets.
Do you ever feel like someone is watching you? In one German town, the city itself is watching and waiting to cause a few smiles.
