Purse Spective: Thrashbird’s Valley Of Secret Values
Street artist Thrashbird has gone off the beaten track to transform huge stone blocks at an abandoned concrete factory into enormous designer handbags. Like Banksy, LA-based Thrashbird ...
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.
Paper Sculptures Depict Bacteria in the Human Body as a Coral Reef
If you could shrink yourself down like cartoon schoolteacher Ms. Frizzle and take a journey through your own microbiota, it might look a bit like scuba-diving through a coral reef. Each ...
Between the Lines: 3D Graffiti Artist Layers Letters to Form Punchy Phrases
Warping classical fonts into rich mural art, Peter Preffington (or: Pref) uses three-dimensional complexity to draw the eye to deceptively simple messages. A veteran street artist, ...
Prismatic Pride: 20+ Rainbow-Centric Murals & Street Art Installations
The world gets a whole lot brighter with the addition of vivid murals incorporating every color of the rainbow, splashed all over public surfaces like apartment buildings, walls, staircases and ...
Hack Your City: Guerrilla Grafters’ Manual for Making Ornamental Trees Edible
You don't have to ask permission to make your city more abundant, growing food where once there was none. Sometimes this type of urban hacktivism is obvious to passersby and thus, susceptible to ...
Chrome Master: Gleaming Metallic Street Art by Puerto Rican Pro Bik Ismo
As striking and skillfully painted as each one of Bik Ismo's chrome murals are, the coolest part might just be peering into each one and trying to discern what's in its reflection. It might just ...
Go Cuckoo for These Brutalist ‘Block Clocks’ Inspired by Concrete Landmarks
Taking inspiration from La Flaine Hotel by Marcel Breuer and the Glenkerry House in London by Erno Goldfinger, these 'Cuckoo Blocks' by artist Guido Zimmermann use iconic Brutalist architecture ...
Pickup Truck Gardens: Japanese Contest Celebrates Mobile Greenery
Set within the beds of small white Japanese pickup trucks known as 'kei,' these gardens are so lush and complex, they look like they've been established for many years. In reality, each one had ...
Rainbow Road: Light Painting Blazes a Trail Through Forests, Cities & the Sea
Surreal and at times a bit eerie, a rainbow road made of pure light winds through muted landscapes as if illuminating a path to another world. As it makes its way through snowy forests, across ...
Blades Of Allegory: 10 Artistic Painted Wind Turbines
Big fans of artistic expression should check out these creatively painted wind turbines whose cylindrical towers stay green even when they're multicolored. Modern wind turbines pose unique ...
