There is a great collection of some of the most innovative improvised street art from the past year from various artists on this French website.

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Hell Ton John is a brilliant young artist and graphic designer from Tahiti, in French Polynesia. His painting is largely inspired by tattoos and Polynesian imagery, combined with patterns taken from street art. The contrast between the ancestral signs and urban graphics is beautiful.

I had the chance to meet Ghost Patrol this summer and he’s a great chap. I love how he combines illustrative and narrative elements to his street art, and his fondness of folklore and nature really make his work stand out.

Sir Francis Bacon once said: ‘There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion’, and the work of Spanish street artist Aryz seems to embody this quote perfectly. His paintings and murals are stunningly ethereal, accessible, and beautiful, but also tinged heavily with a dark and unsettling surrealism.

Anyone who’s walked through the streets of Sydney or Melbourne knows the how prolific the Australian street art scene is. That’s why Soap Creative in Sydney have released Taggr, a free iPhone app that allows you to view, find, upload and geo-tag art from the streets of Sydney and Melbourne. Now anyone from around the world can view the urban creativity that is and was in these two fine cities.

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Contemporary Polish artist Yola continues her exploration and reinterpretation of classical art in a modern urban environment. In her interpretation, Vicious Circle symbolizes the universal problems of contemporary migrants who, in search of hope and a better life, invariably come up against every day obstacles, loneliness, alienation and rejection. Ordinary people in her urban art transform the classical pieces into modern and accessible messages of social commentary.

The Banksy vs Robbo beef has been going on for a while now. Back and forth for over a year, and it even continues after Robbo’s serious head injury, with no end in sight.

He was quoted saying: ‘Last year I decided enough is enough. I’d embarrassed him, so it was time to move on. But in January he went over another of my pieces. Now he’s reignited the fire. I’m planning some really funny stuff for him’.

In support of Robbo’s cause, a few mates of mine came up with a cunning plan to hit Banksy where it hurts the most — his pocket.

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.

This Was Found is a new way of disseminating photographic work by dropping or hanging the photographic prints in public spaces. The prints are hand-developed in the This Was Found darkroom, framed, and then dropped in selected locations. The hope is that these works are picked up by members of the public, and they then report back that they have found a picture. So far, 4 of the 6 drops that have been found have been reported in by the finders.

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We’re seeing a retaliation from young artists who find the environment and politics of galleries to be a juxtaposition to the meaning and target audience of their work. Creative agency, Buzz Products, has helped bring contemporary art into the everyday through a collaboration with emerging street artist Brad Morrison, aka Drab. The exterior of their Melbourne headquarters provided the perfect canvas for Australia’s largest paste-up.

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.

Pablo Delgado is all about making us look for the little things in city streets: his miniature prostitutes and tiny tigers take paste-ups to another level.

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.

Then I was exiting the subway and saw a guy on a ladder putting lines on a wall. He was just beginning the design, but the style looked familiar, so I approached him with my camera in hand and asked him, ‘Did you create this?’, showing him a photo of the piece that first caught my attention nearly a year before. He took a while to answer. I think he was trying to decide whether I was looking to blame or compliment him.

It was indeed the artist whose work I’d appreciated as we walked the squiggly yellow lines of the streets of Buenos Aires. His nickname is Aires Mart and here are a few of his contributions to this intriguing city.

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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.

Pink painted subway trains in the 70s and 80s and had a starring role the motion picture Wild Style. That and many of her other contributions to graffiti made her a cult figure in the hip-hop subculture. She still continues to create beautiful works on canvass and murals. I am currently painting a portrait of her which will be exhibited in Melbourne later on this year. I hope she will like it!

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.

As if the cobbled lanes and canal lined streets of Amsterdam needed any more romance injected into them, along comes street artist Max Zorn. With some humble PVC plastic sheets covered in sliced and layered packing tape, he is creating emotive and dreamy portraits laced with the mystique of years gone by.

Whether it’s an urban twist on the classic, Girl with a Pearl Earring, or a Casablanca-esque tender moment between lovers, Zorn’s ‘tape art’ can be found creating silhouettes from street lamps around the city.

Well known for using everyday people to create large artistic impact, street artist and photographer JR has undertaken a new project upon winning the 2011 TED prize. His work has just been unveiled on New York’s bustling Houston St.

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I have been a fan of ESPO, aka Steve Powers, for a while now. There’s something about the mix of street art, typography, and kind of Emo messages that gets me every time. Haha. I actually named my mixtape, Never Say Never, after being inspired by this piece. At the time, it was just was fitting to what was going on around me.

On the June 11, one night before the equivalent of Valentines Day in Brazil, the band Homemade Blockbuster performed an urban intervention which they glued heart-shaped stickers on the red lights all over town and released their new single called Heartlights.

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.