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.
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.
Artists use either angled surfaces like shutters or lenticular lenses with holographic images to create 'trick' art that can only be seen from certain angles.
When it comes to utility in the service of street safety, orange traffic cones stand alone... except when they stand together and the result is called Art.
If there is s science to the art of graffiti, well, this is not it - except insofar as this robot-artist was itself born of scientific experimentation!
Halloween may be over, but ghouls and skeletons aren't going anywhere. Turn down the wrong street and the stuff of nightmares might be lurking on the wall.
Want to do some serious graffiti art but don't want to do jail time? This cool iPhone app lets you beautify your world with spray paint in augmented reality.
Street art gets blown up to cover entire buildings in these 23 works of urban graffiti, murals, installations and more by artists like ROA, BLU and Phlegm.
What would you think if the city started photographing you? No, not with CCTV, but with graffiti. This fun project appears to do just that.
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