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Russia to Activists: Stop Repainting Soviet Monuments into American Icons

The Russian embassy has taken a hard line in Bulgaria where Soviet monuments have been spray-painted to become iconic American fictional characters from Superman and the Joker to Santa Claus and ...

You Gotta Be Leaf: 12 Smokin’ Hot Marijuana Mascots

Marijuana is smokin' hot and an herb'n helping of marijuana mascots have helped add leaf, er, life to a host of marches, rallies and events. Marijuana's gradual transition from an ...

Drawn Together: The Evolution of Architectural Scale Figures

As they evolved, illustrated figures in architecture (sometimes called ‘scalies') have grown to have more personality, color and life, serving as more than a means to measure ...

Depth-Defying Art: 3D Chalk Characters Blend into City Streets

Bringing a certain subtly and sense of humor back to three-dimensional chalk art, David Zenn creates highly-contextual scenes using an array of animal characters, all interacting with urban ...

Phonetikana: Embedding English into Japanese Characters

Nothing gets lost in translation with these embedded English pronunciations, tied directly into the Japanese typographic style Katakana. While the letterforms of Katakana create an effectively ...

Making Faces: Huge Military Warehouse Mural Spans 48 Windows

Covering two sides of a three-story building in Rome, this ground-to-roof artwork is massive, even by the standards of a big-thinking street artist like BLU used to large-scale ...

Liquid Street Art: Tricycle Deploys Calligraphic Water Poetry

Nicholas Hanna is a Canadian artist who has poured new life into a traditional art form, turning a tricycle into a means of rapidly deploying Chinese characters in liquid form. Like disappearing ...

Just Your Type: Kooky, Real & Physical Typography & Fonts

The art of typography goes far beyond Arial and Helvetica. There is a certain elegance in the way that typographers can take a standard set of letters and turn them into unique and lovely works ...

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