Odd Glory: A Salute To Offbeat American Flag Art
America's stars & stripes flag evokes different feelings in different people, such as artists whose creative expression is displayed via Old Glory. Visual artist Dave Cole created ...
Author: Steve
An outstanding researcher and clever writer who has been with WebUrbanist for over ten years, Steve brings a twist of creative humor into the mix with articles covering abandoned shops and buildings, offbeat signage & branding, eyebrow-raising architecture and much, much more. Steve can also be found exploring green innovations at WebEcoist and examining jaw-dropping pet products and pet-related news at PetsLady.Dear Dairy: 12 Delicious Displays Of Milk Crate Art & Design
Milk crates are like jumbo LEGO bricks: they're colorful, lightweight, plentiful, and can be arranged in an infinite number of artful configurations. Looking a little like a gargantuan ...
Park Places: 10 Creatively Paved, Painted & Personalized Driveways
Do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? These unusual painted driveways prove that when it comes to painted pavement, nobody's really asphalt. The Milne Boys Home in ...
Wet Look: 12 (More) Cool Creative Water Tanks & Towers
Due to their sizes and shapes, water tanks and towers lend themselves to artistic embellishment as these dozen creative examples refreshingly illustrate. A waterpark? In the middle of ...
Park Like a Girl: Women Frustrated with Pink “Ladies” Parking Places
Sexism or security – why not both? Pretty pink women-only parking spaces show once again that best intentions can bring about unintentional consequences. A curious fact about designated ...
Devoted: 12 Unusual Election Polling Places People Still Go to Vote
Voting in elections is one of our most cherished democratic rights but where we vote – and who the candidates are – can leave a lot to be desired. Polling places (or "polling ...
Buzz Off: 15 Smokin’ Hot Mosquito Coil Holders
Modern mosquito-borne diseases like Zika and West Nile fever call for traditional insect repellents like pyrethrum mosquito coils and creative coil holders. The classic mosquito coil was ...
My Space: 15 Creatively Painted High School Parking Spots
So custom-painted assigned high school senior parking spots are a thing now, and it appears students are expressing a LOT (ahem) of creativity. The concept looks to be a win-win for ...
Unfree Wheeling: Amusingly Surreal Vintage Soviet Auto Ads
The Soviet Union not only manufactured cars, they exported them to buyers charmed (or duped) by some amusingly and bemusingly photographed advertisements. Putin the pedal to the metal ...
I Don’t Carioca: Awesome Abandonments Of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro may host the 2016 Olympics but Brazil's most picturesque and second-most populous city also boasts a host of infamous abandoned buildings. Perhaps the most notorious and ...
