Kick Stopper: 12 Sadly Lost & Forgotten Soccer Balls
There are few things more poignant than a lost soccer ball, as illustrated by both a charitable Lost Footballs calendar and these 12 emotion-laden examples. “Ever lost a ball down the ...
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.
Getting Real: Placeholder Graphics Lead to Literal Architectural Renderings
Architects are sometimes criticized for taking creative liberties with their artwork, setting unlikely green scenes or populating their rendered scenes with an improbable array of happy ...
Found Victorian Photographs Transformed into Pop Culture Trading Cards
Victorian-era photographic subjects are transformed in ways they couldn’t possibly have imagined in a series of modified cabinet cards by artist Alex Gross. A buttoned-up young woman becomes ...
Daily City: London Architect Drafts 365 Urban Plans, 1 Day & Design at a Time
A London architect has is working to sketch a new city each day, mining his imagination and experience for fresh ideas for a full year, a practice inspired in part by the failures of modern urban ...
Miniature Calendar: Micro-City Scenes Made Daily from Household Objects
It takes just one artist to raise this annual micro-village, putting out a fresh scene daily featuring miniature people going about their everyday lives, navigating repurposed objects designed ...
Large-Scale Light Art Comes to Life in Amsterdam for Annual Festival
Every winter, visitors and residents alike get to see Amsterdam in a whole new light - literally - as large-scale light art installations add an extra layer of vibrance to the city. For the ...
Daring Glass Observation Deck Opens Atop 77-Story Tower in Bangkok
Over 1,000 feet above the streets of Bangkok, thrill-seeking tourists creep out onto the glass floor of an observation deck at the top of a futuristic-looking tower. The new observatory is the ...
From Pompeii to Gaza: The History of Street Art as a Voice for the People
Over the past half-century, street art has evolved from squiggled lettering on subway cars to a cultural force practiced in virtually every corner of the globe. It began unsanctioned and ...
Life-Sized Interactive Drawings by Levalet Envision a Parallel Universe
Life-sized street art interventions play out scenes from a parallel universe on public surfaces all around us in the interactive works of French artist Levalet. Raised in Guadeloupe, France, the ...
Four-Dimensional Murals: Artist Folds Space Inside Architectural Facades
Folding and flexible geometric forms seem to weave in and out of the structures graced with murals by David Louf (known as Mr. June), seeming to imply what a blank facade could have been in the ...
