Illustrator and street artist Diogo Machado transformed this plain looking electrical box on the streets of Lisbon into a surprising illusion by making it look like a cracked exterior is revealing a blue tile interior. The piece is an extension of Fuel’s ongoing Street Ceramic work, where modern interpretations of tile patterns (Portugues Azulejos) are installed onto building facades
"Over the last year or so, German street artist 1010 created several of his fantastic spray paint portals in locations around Germany, Panama, and the United States. 1010 brings surprising layers of depth to drab facades and blank gallery walls by painting concentric layers of color. The artist most recently had a solo show at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco titled Limbus." via Colossal
Spanish street artist ESCIF reveals his latest murals on StreetAgainst website and recently in the ongoing book "Elsewhere - An ESCIF Solo Book"
American East Coast is slowly turning to Russian Far East, and blame no one, but Earth's climate changed dramatically. You might seen a lot of snowy photos from New York and other cities last days but here is a different view on natural disaster. NYC based street artist FAUST use nothing but his fingers to create lovely lettering on car hoods covered with snow. This peaceful act of instant art makes a big smile on our faces.
Here’s a nice video profile on Melbourne-based street artist, RONE (Instagram). It’s a thing of beauty watching him work, he doesn’t even use a projector. Here he shares insights about his work over process footage of a gigantic 9-storey mural he painted earlier this year. Watch the video below.
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South-Russian indoor mural artist Konstantin Shalev (Facebook) shares his new works since our last review of his crazy street art characters we did at OFFF2011
Our friend and a resident of Hellohikimori Paris - legendary illustrator and professional master of grafitti tagging mr. Nairone (Instagram) released his nice collaboration done with London based studio UNIT9. Hoxton Square Bar&Kitchen asked them to decorate a huge street window. Watch it below
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RETNA (Marquis Lewis) is a contemporary artist, primarily recognized for graffiti art. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, and started his career in the early 1990s. He developed a distinctive constructed script or tagging which is derived from Blackletter, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Arabic, and Hebrew calligraphy, as well as more traditional types of street-based graffiti. In addition to exhibiting at institutions and galleries in Los Angeles, Miami, London, New York and Hong Kong, Retna has done advertising work for brands such as VistaJet, Louis Vuitton, and Nike. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjszQGnXKQw&list=PLLdkjkOBv9VTbKbj5VmmltOc1RLMH5wuv
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150 street artists from 30 countries created an open-air mural museum in Erriadh, a village on the Tunisian island of Djerba and one of the oldest in the country. The project was called “Djerbahood” and was organized by Medhi Ben Cheikh and the Galerie Itinerrance to decorate the village, revive it with new life, and draw more public attention to the island’s vast collection of beautiful street art. Spending almost the whole summer working on their personal murals, the artists left Erriadh on the so-called Island of Dreams with more than 150 stunning pieces decorating its walls, buildings, gates, windows, and doors.
“I wanted to do a project in Tunisia, but it was also a question of logistics,” Ben Cheikh said to NY Times. “I couldn’t send artists to the middle of nowhere. But also because Muslims, Christians and Jews have lived here in peace for the last 2,000 years or so. I’m not here to aggravate anyone, but to consolidate this aspect, which I find beautiful, and together with the natural beauty of the village, provides the artists with a unique canvas.”
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Epic murals and street art created with impressionistic paint strokes from Spain based artist Borondo. You can see more of the exciting work below
"New York City skate label 5Boro have added a set of throwback skate decks to their repertoire, following on from their pack of decks in collaboration with Brooklyn’s Smith Street Tattoo Parlour. Inspired by the artwork adorning VHS tapes in the early ’90s, the crew have issued eight decks whose artwork will be instantly recognizable to almost anyone born before 1990. The full set of decks are available now over at the 5Boro webstore." text by Highsnobiety
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Brazilian graffiti artists Os Gemeos turns six multi-story silos on Granville Island into their trademark ‘Giants.’ The murals on the 70-foot towers are now the largest paintings ever attempted by the pair, an astounding feat considering Os Gemeos completely donated a month of their time to create the non-profit art project. An Indiegogo fundraising campaign to recoup costs associated with painting the silos has been extremely successful.
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Talented French couple of artist Alex & Marine (Facebook) use dot-tattoo technique and gold-leaves stamping to create epic murals for different locations
"Warsaw-based artist NeSpoon uses ornate lace patterns in her unique brand of street art that translates into ceramics, stencils, paintings, and crocheted webbing installed in public spaces. NeSpoon refers to her art as “public jewelry,” specifically as an act of beautification by turning abandoned and unadorned spaces into something aesthetically pleasing"
If you follow us on Instagram you might mentioned our post about the latest work of talented French street artist JR. A huge container-sheep left Le Havre carrying a huge murals as a part of "Women Are Heroes" long-term project started by JR in 2007.
I fulfilled my promise. At 7am, the 363 meter long ship left the Port of le Havre, France to cross the world all the way to Malaysia In 2007, I started Women Are Heroes. To pay tribute to those who play an essential role in society, but who are the primary victims of war, crime, rape or political and religious fanaticism, I pasted portraits and eyes of women on a train in Kenya, a Favela in Brazil, a demolished house in Cambodia. They gave their trust and they asked for a single promise make my story travel with you. I did it: on the bridges of Paris and the walls of Phnom penh, the building of New York, etc. I wanted to finish Women Are Heroes with a ship leaving a port, with a huge image which would look microscopic after a few minutes, with the idea of these women who stay in their villages and face difficulties in the regions torn by wars and poverty facing the infinity of the ocean. It did not happen at the time But during the last 10 days, we pasted 2600 strips of paper on the containers with the dockers of the port And this morning we saw the ship leaving the port. I have no idea of what is in the other containers on the boat: stuff from people leaving a country to build a different life in another region, goods that will be transformed, worn, eaten in a different country. I have no idea where and how people will see this artwork but I am sure that some women far away will feel something today . And in Le Havre, we are exhausted and proud
"Brain Mash" is a graphic art studio based in the "capital" of Siberia - Novosibirsk. Check their portfolios to explore the successful juxtaposition of graphic design and street art
Artist JR started his career illegally posting enormous photographic imagery in the streets of Paris. The French capital eventually approved of JR’s installations and started supporting his artwork in the outdoors of Parisian housing projects from 2004 to 2006.In JR’s latest endeavour, the Pantheon opened this month with his “Au Panthéon!” project. It showcases thousands of portraits taken in March of this year from a photo-booth truck, which made its way to multiple nations. The portraits are arranged in mosaics on ornate ceilings, floors, and exterior of the famous monument. via
Earlier this week Google announced the launch of their Street Art Project, a new initiative to document and preserve the often transient nature of street art
