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.
Word on the Street: 14 Fun Urban Street Ads
Advertisers take to the streets with ads that turn asphalt, manholes and sewer grates into surprisingly effective marketing platforms.
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52 Photos of a Poisonous, Abandoned Factory: Enter & Die
"This building is out of order! You are not allowed to enter because you may DIE!" Welcome the mercury poisoned, abandoned Polam Philips factory in Poland.
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Cellophane City? Plastic Arts Change Urban Landscape
Cellophane, the plastic stuff that keeps your sandwiches fresh, isn't a conventional art tool. But these two projects use it to temporarily spruce up cities.
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Communication Arts: 15 Awesome Posters About Design
A group of diverse graphic designers answer the question "what is graphic design?" the best way they know how: through graphic design.
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40 Fantastic to Freaky Merry Christmas Greetings in Graffiti!
The debate rages on if graffiti is art or vandalism. Whether freaky or fantastic, writers spread holiday cheer with these 40 Merry Christmas graffiti greetings.
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Painted Alive: Boldly Brilliant Body Paintings
The human body can be and do so many things, but when it's used as a canvas for fine art, truly magical things can happen.
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Less is More: 18 Clever Logos Using Negative Space
Nothing makes a logo more effective than clever use of negative space, incorporating more meaning while keeping the design as clean as possible.
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Photoshop Fail: 15 Hilariously Botched Images
Photoshop is a wonderful thing, but sometimes image editing gets out of hand - witness missing reflections, phantom hands and people airbrushed to oblivion.
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Urban Camouflage: Liu Bolin, The Invisible Man
Chinese artist Liu Bolin painstakingly paints his subjects so that they seem to disappear into their surroundings in amazing urban camouflage photography.
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Trick of the Eye: Delightfully Deceptive Works of Art
Since ancient times, artists have tricked viewers with incredibly realistic 3D paintings. This style, called trompe l'oeil, is still delighting viewers today.
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The Surreal & Colorful World of Artist Marco Escobedo
Digital artist Marco Escobedo creates intricate, colorful, surreal art using programs like Adobe Photoshop.
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Faux Photography: 55 More Amazingly Realistic Paintings
Paintings that look like photographs? These 14 artists have it down almost to a science. Their art is so realistic, you'll swear it's photography.
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About Face: Unbelievably Hilarious Face Painting Art
Face painting is fun and magical, and it lets us temporarily transform ourselves. For one Michigan artist, it's become more than a fun occasional hobby.
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Crafty Consumerism: 15 Forms of Barcode Art
From tattoos and home decor to portraits of Jesus, the barcode has been elevated to art in many different forms, whether infused with meaning or not.
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Fractured Reality: Bizarre 3-D Photo Sculptures
Artist Gwon Osang forms hundreds of photographs around mannequins to create bizarre three-dimensional photo sculptures.
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