Sensei-tion: Kyoto U’s Much-Defaced Orita Bust
A bronze bust of the late educator Hikoichi Orita was vandalized so often, Kyoto University administrators put it into storage – still, the students persisted. Orita-sensei played an ...
Category: Street Art & Graffiti
From 3D graffiti to light art, these works reflect the cutting edge of contemporary urban street art and design. These graffiti and street artists employee the latest techniques, creative materials, and unusual strategies to challenge the conventional stencil-and-spray-paint approach that most people think of when it comes to public drawing and wall graffiti the world over.
Animate Objects: Urban Artist Breathes Life into Everyday Street Scenes
Looking at everyday built environments with an eye toward artistic adaptation, Oakoak turns exhaust pipes into elephant trunks, wild shrubs into micro-farms and more. Pablo Picasso's ...
Visual Poetry: Street Artist Paints Site-Specific Traditional Lace Patterns
Delicate patterns of lace adorn the facades of buildings, magnified many times larger than life, echoing the particular motifs of the region’s traditions. The Polish street artist known as ...
Temporary Street Art: Mobile Projector Paints Hong Kong with Modern Chinese Zodiac
Three years after decorating Paris with smartly-dressed animals, street artist Julien Nonnon is back with a project that temporarily adorns the streets of Hong Kong with his own modern version of ...
Graffiti Artists Awarded $6.7M from Landlord Who Destroyed Their Work
Prior to 2013, a warehouse in Queens known as 5Pointz was a graffiti mecca packed with murals and other work by hundreds of artists, many of whom rented space inside the building. That is, until ...
Tread Setters: 15 Wheely Cool Spare Tire Covers
Circular spare tire covers mounted on SUVs and Jeeps double as convenient creative canvases for drivers eager to take their particular passions on the road. Spare tire covers are designed ...
Toynbee Too: Cryptic ‘House Of Hades’ Street Tiles
Cryptic 'House of Hades' linoleum tiles inspired by mysterious and anonymous Toynbee Tiles are cropping up on The Big Apple's paved streets. The so-called “Toynbee Tiles” are ...
Has Bins : 15 More Street Artistic Trash Dumpsters
Down in the dumps? These dozen decorated dumpsters are sure to turn your mood from crappy to happy thanks to their distinctively un-trashy artistic makeovers. Becoming the pick of the ...
Cellograffiti: Street Art Moves from Cities into the Woods on Plastic Wrap
Street art leaves the city and goes out into the woods in search of a new context without defacing nature thanks to a few massive rolls of clear engineering film. With Moscow-based artist Evgeny ...
Buttsy: Banksy-Style Street Artist Crafts Cigarette Butt-Based Assemblages
Working to raise awareness of litter, Buttsy builds sculptural collages out of found objects, with a strong emphasis on some of the most toxic offenders: cigarette butts. Like Banksy, he works ...
