Metropolitan Cityscapes: Maps Honor Favorite Places
Each city is as different, and as beautiful, as we are. That's the sentiment behind 'Metropolitan Cityscapes', beautifully complex city maps with the negative space around the streets ...
Category: Art
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.
Vintage Vandals: 6 Artists Monsterize Thrift-Store Paintings
You seem to see them at every garage sale: a chipped and battered, faux-ornate, gold-colored frame containing a bland and boring landscape that only holds meaning for the original painter and ...
Season’s Graffitis! 16 Santalicious Christmas Murals
Despite the fact that Thanksgiving just concluded, everyone's eyes are already looking forward to the Christmas season. These fantastic holiday murals are a tease as the holiday rapidly ...
Superstitions, Illustrated: A Calendar of Fallacious Thought
Even in a world of smart phones, high-speed trains, artificial intelligence and Mars exploration, many of us still bow to old superstitions. We avoid crossing under ladders, knock on wood, cross ...
What Drumsticks! 12 Thanksgiving Turkey Statues
From “jive turkeys” to WKRP's notorious televised Thanksgiving airdrop, turkeys have historically gotten less respect than the late Rodney Dangerfield... or have they? These 12 tall & ...
Action Figure Booth: 3D Printer Creates Custom Figurines
Let's hope this concept catches on: a photo booth alternative that, instead of printing photos, creates an instant 3D action figure that looks just like you. Opening to the public at Tokyo's EYE ...
Visualization Vids: Moving Data Make Marvelous Movies
Raw data, as interesting as it may be to the scientists and analysts who use it, simply isn't very interesting (or understandable) to the rest of us. In order to get the general public truly ...
Urban Landscapes Transformed: 23 Stunning Urban Murals
Alleyways and city streets are often criss crossed with urban art, though it usually takes the form of paint out of a can. Thankfully this is not always the case, as urban property owners team up ...
Interactive Light Art Installation Operated by Smart Phones
A five-story 'veil' of light situated along the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany billows and contracts according to users' finger movements on their smart phones. 'Photophore' was installed at ...
Grill Gas Flash: 15 Prettily Painted Propane Tanks
Hank Hill might look askance at any artistic affectation of “propane and propane accessories” but give the big fella his due: propane is America's grilling gas of choice. These days propane gas ...
