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NeverWet Graffiti: Invisible-Ink Street Art Shows Up in Rain

NeverWet has been making headlines as the silicon-based spray that repels liquids from clothes and electronics, but this off-book use shows another fascinating application that may be even ...

Micro-Cities: Tiny Buildings Fuel Miniature Urban Renewal

Electrical boxes beware - Evol is back to up to his old tricks, turning urban fixtures and unused walls into tiny cityscapes using a deceptively simple toolbox comprised of cardboard, stencils ...

Street Origami: 30,000 Pieces Folded to Create Colorful Art

An urban art play in multiple acts, this staged installation colorfully spans brick walls, stone steps and wood facades as part of an art festival in Angers, France. Mademoiselle ...

Time-Lapse Tagging: Short Film Reveals Secrets of Graffiti

You see the finished pieces all over - ornate, curved and layered - but rarely get such a vivid and complete all-angle, real-time view of how their tags come together. If you are even remotely ...

Art of Absence: Brick Street Mural Made of Unpainted Void

White wall frames cracked red bricks shaped like rust-colored autumn leaves, all trailing down to a black silhouette of a painter and his bucket - but looks can be deceiving, and this lovely ...

On Not Off: Giant Light Switch Mural is Brilliantly Literal

A photo-realistic mural with a nuanced message, this giant work of wall art is impressive in scale and a definite surprise to passers by. Complete with shade and shadow, the huge on-and-off power ...

Social Signage: Digital Street Sign Gives Dynamic Directions

The shape is a familiar classic - a central post pointing toward different destinations, sometimes near and other times a world away. This evolved version, however, replaces static locations and ...

Little & Local: Staircase Cinema & Sidewalk Library Projects

Public art used to be synonymous with huge and impersonal and location-agnostic sculptures made of metal and marble. Countering that classic Modernist trend are installations like this pair: a ...

Unauthorized Installations: The Fine Art of Urban Subversion

Brad Downey is familiar with both sides of the art world, with a fine arts degree and gallery exhibitions, on the one hand, and run-ins with the authorities about his sometimes-unsanctioned ...

Tag Clouds & More: Geek Street Artist Remakes Messy Graffiti

To the uninitiated, used to seeing it but not to reading it, graffiti scrawl can seem illegible. In a play on both tagging and technology, this artist turns traditional tags into computer-style ...

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