Street art
Eve Mosher’s Insert ____ Here Art Project Points To Climate Change Solutions
Vacant lots littered with trash. Streets that lack bike lanes. We’ve all passed urban spaces that are in need of some sprucing up, and artist Eve Mosher and 350.org have come up with a bold, graphic
1970s Berlin Restaurant Transformed into Graffiti Art Tower
A tower restaurant built back in the 70s in Berlin has recently gotten an urban street-inspired face lift! The retro eatery, known by Berliners as the “Bierpinsel” (Beer Brush), no longer
Guerilla Knitting Documentary Explores the Origins of Yarn Graffiti
From crocheted cars to potholes repaired with colorful bursts of yarn, guerilla knitting has become a daily sighting on the streets and all over the web. The yarn graffiti movement has reached worldwide
Street Swings Are a Great Way to Spruce Up Sidewalks
You know what the problem with sidewalks is? Aside from the concrete, it’s that they’re boring. Seeking to add some life to the drab grey pedestrian paths, artists Akay and Peter went around
Wild ‘Head Gardeners’ Made from Recycled Bottles Hit the Streets
There’s no point in crying over spilt milk, especially when those empty plastic containers can be recycled and turned into beautiful pieces of art. Well settled at home, or equally suited to hit the
Graffiti Art by D.O.C.S. Takes Inspiration from Nature
Careful trompe l’oeil is hardly an artist’s technique you expect a tagger to employ in his graffiti work. But these often miscalculated and misunderstood artists have a lot to teach the world
Artist EVOL Transforms Lackluster Urban Spaces With Mini Conrete Block Towers
Urban spaces that host sparse enclaves or nondescript architecture are more likely to spark feelings of banality rather than inspiration. So when we spotted the work of Berlin based street artist EVOL, we
REVERSE GRAFFITI: South African Artists Tag Walls By Scrubbing Them Clean
Reverse graffiti is a type of street art that effaces – not defaces – public property. That’s right, the taggers or “scrubbers” that practice this art form actually remove
REVERSE GRAFFITI: South African Artists Tag Walls By Scrubbing Them Clean
Graffiti is one of the most controversial art forms out there since it defaces public property – but what if graffiti artists actually cleaned up the walls they tagged up by etching their sketches
Liesbet Bussche Adorns Amsterdam With Larger-Than-Life Jewelry
Re-inventing ordinary street dividers and concrete balls, Liesbet Bussche creates larger-than-life jewelry pieces for the streets of Amsterdam. The Belgian designer makes small interventions to the street
The Crate Man Cometh: Recycled Milk Crate Art
Holy leaping legos! This cratalicious creature may, at first glance, appear to be some kind of primitive transformer, but he actually deserves a lot more respect that. For this is none other than Crate
GUERILLA GARDENING: Flowers Beautify Abandoned Flyer Box
Hoping to bring some color and cheer to the streets of Toronto, Canada, street artist, Posterchild, decided to become a guerrilla gardener by potting six perky marigolds in an abandoned flyer box. The
Mosstika Moss Graffiti Brings Greenery to the Concrete Jungle
When it comes to eco-art, it doesn’t get much better than Edina Tokodi’s awesome green graffiti made from living moss. Inhabitat has been following artist Edina Tokodi and her tongue-in-cheek
CONFLUX 2008 FESTIVAL: Urban Laboratory Experiments
This weekend the streets of NYC will be teeming with ‘psycho-paths’ – no news to some, but certainly good news to those who are fans of psychogeography. From September 11 to 14, over one
REVERSE GRAFFITI: Clean Green Street Art hits San Francisco!
Here’s one instance of green-washing that we’re 100% behind. The Reverse Graffiti Project imbues the guerrilla tactics of street-art with an eco-friendly element, detourning the definition of
URBAN CURATORS PROJECT In Downtown Providence
Participants from the Urban Curators project recently transformed derelict areas of downtown Providence into an outdoor gallery space when they took to the streets and indulged in a little impromptu
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