Gritty City: Dark Oils Capture Essence of Bustling Urbanity
Busy shipyards, city streets, rain-streaked skyscrapers and other iconic staples of cities come alive in this portfolio of shadowy oil paintings. Valerio D’Ospina captures ...
Author: Kurt Kohlstedt
WebUrbanist was founded in 2007 by Kurt Kohlstedt, who currently writes and edits articles and episodes at 99% Invisible and can be found on Twitter @KurtKohlstedtCel(l) Shorts: Crafty Urban Augmented Reality Animations
Employing a cellular phone coupled with traditional transparent cel animation techniques, this artist inserts strange characters and surreal stories into everyday built ...
Bricksy: 20 Classic Banksy Street Artworks Recreated in LEGO
Selecting from Banksy favorites and classics, this series of brick-based fan art both replicates and expands on familiar two-dimensional works. Professional photographer Jeff ...
Almost There: Signs from the Near Future May Blow Your Mind
A few are far-fetched, but most of these notices are shocking in part because they are nearly believable - some may be an accepted reality within the next few years (click to ...
Infrastructural Art: Colorful LEDs Lights Up Shipyard Cranes
The imagination readily fastens onto the anthropomorphic figures like those found in shipyards, turning looming metal giants into huge toy beasts, origami cranes writ ...
Unverpackt: Zero-Waste Grocery Store Packages No Products
The first of its kind in the country, this German supermarket strips away wasteful packaging and sells its goods in bulk to customers who bring or borrow recycled and reusable ...
Machine Cemetery: Diggers Bury Selves in Unmarked Graves
A surreal testimony to the excesses of underground construction in London, developers have been intentionally burying still-functioning digging machines used to excavate subterranean ...
Inspiration Pad: Lined Notebook for Thinking Outside the Box
Made for those who like to color outside lines and jot outside boxes, each page of this bound pad provides a unique source of inspiration and different framework for drawing, sketching and ...
Urban Infill: Colorful Tile Mosaics Patch Potholed Streets
In a city with over a half-million open potholes, one artist is helping address the problem and raising awareness by installing his own creative patches, filling them piece by piece with colorful ...
16 Cap Redesigns Give 2nd Lives to 40,000 Used Cola Bottles
Aimed at promoting the creative reuse of plastic bottles, Coca-Cola has launched a project to give away caps that convert discarded drink containers to fun and practical alternative ...
