Posts tagged with graffiti
February 9, 2012 | New Art | by Kate Farrall |
Gale Hart, a Northern California artist, creates intense characters and colour in her paintings to tell her visual story. Graffiti and stencil elements blend and blur with drawing and painting techniques, creating an image far greater than its parts. Read more
January 20, 2012 | Video | 
by Contributions |
London-based graffiti creatives Paintshop Studio have teamed up with DJ Format to produce an animated graffiti video to promote Format’s new album release, Statement of Intent. Filmed and edited by Jeff Metal, and produced in just one day, the entire clip was created in spray paint and showcases a collection of rappers who feature on the album coming to life by painting and re-painting key elements.
October 19, 2011 | New Design | by Contributions |
London-based graffiti and design company Paintshop Studio have joined other leading artists and designers from across the globe to release a bespoke animated home screen for PlayStation PS3. Read more
October 7, 2011 | New Art | by Contributions |
Street artists NF and Lover have been getting up quite a bit lately. Here’s a recent collaboration that was spotted in the Bronx illustrating the dangers of cell phone use.
September 27, 2011 | New Trends | by Contributions |
I just found Rad magazine online. It gives a overview of everything cool. The editors have not revealed themselves and have tried to give a very underground feel to it.
July 29, 2011 | Video | by Contributions |
When three renowned Australian street artists (Meggs, Lister and Kid-zoom) all independently visited the UK in June, VNA Magazine organized a meet up and invited the guys at Itdrewitself along to film the day.
July 20, 2011 | New Art | by Contributions 
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The big map of Buenos Aires that I have is covered in squiggly yellow highlighter lines marking the streets that Annette and I have walked. After a couple years of street walking (in the non-prostitute sense of the term), I began noticing a particular street artist whose style was different to anything I’d seen previously on walls. Read more
July 13, 2011 | New Art | by Deb |
Being female and involved in the graffiti and street art culture, the beautiful and talented Lady Pink is one of my most inspirational female artists. Born in Ecuador and raised in New York, she started writing graffiti in 1970 and was one of the only females involved in the scene at the time. Read more
July 6, 2011 | New Art | by Contributions |
Street art and photography duo Jana and JS spray the walls of some of Europe’s best cities with their boundary-blurring work. They’ve got the art of a photo in a photo in a picture down. Read more
June 14, 2011 | Video | by Contributions |
Itdrewitself met-up with the guys at UK street art magazine Very Nearly Almost for this candid look behind the scenes. Five years on from their humble beginnings as a black and white photo copied zine, the fifteenth iteration of Very Nearly Almost boasts full colour spreads packed with intimate features on the biggest names in street art from Sickboy and Shepard Fairey to Banksy. A beautiful and sincere homage to street art, graffiti and everything in-between.
May 20, 2011 | New Trends | by Tjinder Singh from Cornershop |
Signs of the Times: the Popular Literature of Tahrir Protest Signs, Graffiti, and Street Art captures the art, feelings and emotion of the Middle East as the revolution erupted. The protest signs and graffiti are brought into context, making everyone realise we are all the same, with the same puppet strings as the West.
April 29, 2011 | New Art | by Contributions |
Blek Le Rat did what Banksy did twenty years before Banksy did. And that’s according to Banksy himself. Now creatives around the world have the chance to be flown to Berlin to take part in a live stencil art session with him. Upload a JPEG of your own stencil art to Hugo Create to take part. Read more
March 16, 2011 | New Art | by Contributions |
Mainstreamers are two guys, Luka and Nootk, based in Moscow, Russia. They started out in 2007 doing graffiti, moved onto decorating murals, and are now involved in all sorts of creative activities. Mainstreamers follow one common path of creating characters out of objects and letters. Their colour pallets are always precisely chosen and work well with the themes.
February 23, 2011 | New Events | by Contributions |
Rich Mix and Havana Club are calling on amateur or professional artists to submit designs for a specially commissioned wall art project. A panel of experts, led by Remi/Rough, will select two winning designs to feature on the Rich Mix interior wall throughout the year. Read more
February 11, 2011 | New Art | by Contributions |
Strolling the streets of Buenos Aires, you can’t miss the creative and kooky street art. Girl power is in fashion and Pum Pum is ruling the walls. The artist’s vibrant colours and charming characters draw you in to a fanciful world of large fringes and sweet cheep cheeps. But what does it all mean?
Lala Ladcani is part of the Argentinean art scene and works across illustration, multimedia collages, accessories and photography.
It was the amazing illustrations, bold and bright, whimsically wrapping humble olive oil canisters that first caught my eye. As I began to dig deeper and learn more about this limited edition series, it was the concept that had me sold. Each of the 1,000 gift boxes created in this collection holds three beautiful containers of stunning olive oil: one from Portugal, another from Spain, and the last from Italy. Read more
The Deal sisters have dropped off the indie-rock radar of late, but this clip of them covering Hank Williams’ I Can’t Help It reminds us why we all loved them so much back in the day. Incidentally, the Breeders are set to release their new album, Mountain Battles, in April.
Look closely at the froth of this latte and you’ll see a portrait carved out amongst the grains and milk. It’s a truly a work of art and it’s a feature of the coffee served at Richmond, Melbourne cafe Flavours of Lakhoum. Check, please!
Photoshop Disasters posts some of the most atrocious acts of Photoshop ever committed. It’s amazing how many horrible shop jobs make it to print. Read more
Skeletonbreath pound out some pretty raging post-punk anthems with a violin taking the lead rather than a vocalist. The trio can get surprisingly loud, despite frontman Robert Pycior’s classically trained virtuosity.
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Australian designer Mic Eaton has created an innovative line called Material Boy which specializes in over-sized shirts and funky trackpants. Read more
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How ’bout this Jose Manuel Hortelano-Pi guy, huh? Quite the illustrator, yessiree Bob. From Spain, too. Spain is great! Read more
The return of the Brionvega rr226
Italian brand Brionvega has resurrected the classy Radiofonografio piece first created in 1965. The updated version is just like the original turntable/radio unit, but also has a CD/DVD player.
Christoph Niemann illustrates a nightmare flight
New York Times illustrator Christoph Niemann has created a brilliant visual diary outlining the peril and pitfalls that beset the everyday passenger based on his recent experience flying from New York to his home town of Berlin. Read more
It’s refreshing to see artists like Joe Kievitt who are contented to explore the beauty in simple forms and asymmetrical patterns. Read more
A little infectious lollipop rock anyone? Feel free to embarrass yourself singing along at the stoplight. If the other drivers give you that look, roll down the windows and spread the love.
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Junior Massive is a newly launched Australian boutique t shirt label making limited edition tees using only Australia cotton. It’s street meets indie; design meets durability; edgy fashion meets edgy fashion. We have them for sale in the Lost At E Minor online store. Read more
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