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: 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Invader Returns to Los Angeles with a New Series of Fun Pixelated Mosaics
A French street artist known only as 'Invader' just got done dropping over a dozen new mosaic tile installations all over Los Angeles while in town for the group show Beyond the Streets. The best ...
Altered Realities: Abstract 3D Murals by Peeta Pop Off the Wall
A wall could look as flat as flat gets until street artist Peeta gets his hands on it with a can of spray paint, distorting its surface, confusing its perspective with three-dimensional ...
Art Everywhere: 12 Projects Transform Public Spaces into Guerrilla Galleries
Street artists turn entire cities into open-air galleries, but there are countless ways to carry out urban art interventions, and they're at their most fun when they subvert existing structures. ...
Floating Whales & Other Unlikely Creatures Invade Cities in Murals by Nevercrew
Swiss street art duo NEVERCREW recently completed 'Sensing Machine No.3,' a mural outside the historic Paris institution of street art known as Le M.U.R., depicting a whale reflecting the city. ...
Canned Heat: 12 Folk Art Painted Residential Propane Tanks
Those popular home propane tanks that look like colossal cold capsules or dry-docked mini subs can be unusual showcases for unique folk art creations. Ranging in capacity from 250 gallons ...
