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WebUrbanist | Archived Articles on Graffiti & Drawing

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.

Disorienting Depth: Amazing Optical Illusions in Art Galleries

Brazilian artist Regina Silveira's black vinyl appliques turn ordinary rooms into bizarre spaces where gravity and perspective don't seem to apply.

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Lay of the Land: 13 Topographic Works of Art & Design

The lines that represent curves, dips and peaks on a landscape are celebrated for their beauty and symbolism in these 13 works of art and design.

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Zen-Like Artist Creates Intricate Pencil Tip Carvings

Artists have been creating works of art in pencil for centuries - but in this artist's capable hands, the pencil itself becomes the canvas.

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Write Black but Go Green: Save Pens Using Garamond Font

Artist Matt Robinson demonstrates that choosing one typeface over another might just save a significant amount of ink, with Garamond coming out on top.

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Trash Can Art? 28 Garbage Cans That Belong In A Gallery

Dump that dirty old trash can into an even larger one, because it's time to upgrade! Here are some fantastic artistic trash and garbage cans.

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34 Bad Tattoos: The Awful, The Weird, and The Misspelled

In carpentry they say to measure twice and cut once. In tattooing it's "choose your tattoo artist carefully, and bring a dictionary."

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Transcending Tags: 16 Typographic Works of Urban Art

Graffiti tags have blossomed into letters and words that celebrate typography itself, applied to urban settings like shutters, fences and streets.

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Art, Not Ads: 13 Creative Billboard Takeovers

Obliterating messages of commercialism, artists take over these huge ad spaces and fill them with nature scenes, paintings, text or subverted messages.

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These Are Not Photos: Realism by Steve Mills

Even when viewed close-up, it's extremely difficult to tell that these incredible photorealistic paintings by Steve Mills were created using brushes and paint.

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Spiral Pen Portraits Use Pressure to Make Amazing Art

An advertising campaign focuses on one artist's unique knack for drawing the most detailed masterpieces in a spiral formation.

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