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.
By now, we're all used to seeing graffiti and public art in urban and suburban settings. We're so used to it, in fact, that we typically walk right by without giving it a second glance. But would ...
Since the first spray paint tags appeared in Philadelphia and NYC in the 1970s, graffiti has spread all around the world. From simple tags to complex pieces, some form of graffiti is present in ...
Not only are there different types of graffiti; there are also plenty of different lettering styles used by graffiti writers. Many of them were designed by graffiti writers in the beginning years ...
When you walk by graffiti in the street, do you take the time to study it? Do you look at its composition to determine the intention of the person behind the spray paint can? If you do, you may ...
Humans have been expressing themselves by scrawling on walls since the earliest people lived in caves. But it wasn't until the 1970s that we started taking our messages to the walls, trains and ...
It’s all too easy to get stuck in a routine, walking through the city on autopilot without even noticing what’s around you. Urban guerrilla street artists seek to shake things up, force you ...
The influence of graffiti looms large on the art world at all times, from a street artist like Banksy being hailed as master by traditional art critics to a graffiti artist like Barry McGee ...
Graffiti, Street-Art, Urban-Art; with nearly 20,000 years of cultural evolution behind it, it's still art by any other name and nothing seems able to stem its phenomenal popularity. We've come ...
Since before the Italians had the word "Graffiti," and in fact, before there were any Italians, people have been leaving their marks on walls. These people weren't viewed as criminals, nor were ...
Graffiti has always been an urban expressionist art form. Oft times, both an expression of the human creative spirit and an outlet for emotion, graffiti have covered the walls of high rises in ...
