Word on the Street: 14 Fun Urban Sidewalk & Road Ads
Outdoor advertising is all around us – on billboards, benches and even stairs. So it was only a matter of time before the ads took to the streets themselves in the form of stunning 3D chalk ...
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Fit to Sit: 15 Clever Bench Ads & Marketing Campaigns
A bench is a bench – except when it’s also a platform for a surprising, thought-provoking, memorable advertisement that sometimes even functions as urban art. The best bench ads turn ...
Dispatchwork: Patching World War 2 Damage with Legos
The stark contrast of monochromatic, crumbling stone buildings and small, colorful plastic toy blocks is especially jarring in Berlin, where evidence of the horrors of World War II is still ...
Cellophane City? Plastic Arts Change Urban Landscape
When negative comments are made about public art, they usually revolve around the art being unattractive, too permanent, or a waste of city funds (either for commissioning a sanctioned piece or ...
Fantastic to Freaky: 40 Graffiti Merry Christmas Greetings
Graffiti decorates walls, subways and trains all over our globe. Since the first tags appeared in the 1970s, graffiti has grown in popularity until now it can be a commercialized venture. ...
Urban Camouflage: Liu Bolin, The Invisible Man
In a world of Photoshop and special effects, artistic craft wrought by hand is getting harder to come by. But Liu Bolin doesn’t need any fancy technology to produce the jaw-dropping illusion of ...
Off the Wall Graffiti: 11 Weird Artists Making Odd Marks
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 ...
Faux Photography: 43 Stunning Super-Realistic Works of Art
Amazingly, none of these beautiful pieces of art are photographs. They were all made with various methods, but all of them are part of the photorealism genre. The movement got its start in the US ...
Doing Graffiti Online: 8 Generator & Creator Applications
Graffiti art is a big part of the urban voice. It has become its own art form and developed its own subculture. But there are big risks involved in urban graffiti, and not all of us are willing ...
Graffiti Sites: Train, Wall, Street & Subway Photos
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 ...
