Urban art is at the heart of WebUrbanist – the drawings, images, photos and sculptures that inspire us in part because they are open to the public. From installation artworks to street graffiti and everything in between, here is our extensive collection of urban street art gathered from around the world and representing both traditional techniques and innovative approaches by old and new street artists alike.
One Manhattanite's trash is another person's kitschy plastic knick-knack. Artist Justin Gignac packages and sells NYC trash for $50 a pop.
Add Comment »»The power of fun is often lost on grownups, but these two public art projects helped put some fun back into the daily lives of UK pedestrians.
3 Comments »»Advertising firms are always finding new ways to grab our attention. One Dutch company is using an environmentally-safe method to temporarily tag the sidewalks.
One Comment »»A faltering economy has forced businesses all over the world to shut down. So how do you keep the local economy alive and attract more businesses? You fake it.
One Comment »»How can you not stop and watch when a creepy, Chewbacca-like creature is crawling down the street, or a man is projecting his privates onto a public building?
Add Comment »»An interactive light show in Vancouver called Vectorial Elevation allows users to customize their own light art designs from anywhere in the world.
One Comment »»Artist Alessandro Bavari vividly imagines a dark and depraved Sodom and Gomorrah in this Bosch-like, biblical digital art series.
One Comment »»What do super heroes and villains do when nobody's looking? Photographer Ian Pool gives us a glimpse with this fantasy photo series.
2 Comments »»Upside down houses: they're more common then you think... but why? Maybe they just wanted to stand out from the crowd. In that at least, they've succeeded.
5 Comments »»Compilations of unusual Google Street View images aren't hard to find. But artist Jon Rafman compiles the touching human images most people never see.
3 Comments »»German artist Jan Vormann patches bullet holes, cracks and other damage from World War II with plastic building blocks in a project called 'Dispatchwork'.
2 Comments »»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.
One Comment »»An offbeat custom mailbox can reflect your personality and let people know a little about you. These mailbox designs are weird, unique, and a little bit crazy.
3 Comments »»Here are some of the best snowmen nightmares, where fans of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip created real life, unhappily ever after tributes of the snowmen series.
18 Comments »»Roads unfurl like fabric and human faces are frighteningly elastic in the digitally manipulated photographs of artist Erik Johansson.
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