Posts Tagged "street art"

This is what it would look like if we made hot music videos for designers and artists rather than musicians:

SUPAKITCH & KORALIE – VÄRLDSKULTUR MUSEET GÖTEBORG from elr°y on Vimeo.

seriously. i needed this to get the week started.

also: take a look at this. ridiculous. scratch the surface. Thank you VHILS—amazing talent. Amazingly fresh.

Love, CH

Christian Guemy (aka C215) is a seriously talented graffiti artist from France who has traveled the world spraying magic on the streets. I found his work on flickr and there is a ton of it on there. It’s cool to see all the work he’s done over the years and how his technique keeps improving. Most of the subjects in his work are from the streets themselves (homeless, refugees, street kids, etc), complimenting his gritty and powerful style.

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Greek artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis is one of those people that makes me go green-ish with envy. In a good way, of course. I love love love his street art, and it’s fascinating to see how successful his work is across whatever media he chooses.

His first solo show in the U.S., “Is Everybody Happy,” is on display at LeBasse Projects in Culver City until the end of this week. Go see it if you are in the area.

Here’s what the press release says ( I certainly couldn’t formulate it this way):
Alexandros Vasmoulakis’s essential incentive is the desire for unveiling images and sounds from social revolts and individual agitations. This is portrayed in the disproportionate bodies and faces that act as reflective mirrors to their inner psychology. His images are opposed to any established identity; they constantly work under a process of modification that constructs innovative grounds as a purpose to deconstruct them. He unites this ambiguous transcendental happiness with a pandemonium of symbols and signs in order to build a playground of disarray. The incomplete and erased drawings are intentionally depicted with the purpose of highlighting as well as embracing the aspect of imperfection.

More below the fold.

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You just have to love Mark Jenkins‘ street installations. He’s got a show opening in Hollywood at the Carmichael Gallery documenting his street work titled ‘Meaning is Overrated.’ I couldn’t agree more.

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There’s something captivating about Nuria Mora’s street art. I really like street art that doesn’t really have a message… it’s just there to look at. Then again, maybe this has a message and I’m just missing it… ah hell, I dig it regardless.

I love urban beautification projects of all shapes + sizes.  Dave, an illustrator from the UK who goes by the moniker Monsieur Cabinet, has been using the existing geometry of drain covers to beautify something that most of us just walk over without noticing.  Awesome.

Panhojda is a graphic designer + illustrator straight out of art school.  He lives + works in Cracow, Poland, where he’s busy assembling a growing portfolio.  Looking good so far.

More illustrations, some street art + a nice shot of Panhojda’s workspace after the jumpie.

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I love the murals, paintings, woodcuts, screenprints, street art and block prints of the enigmatic TIKA.  Check him out!  

This is some serious street art in Berlin captured by Epoxy’s Flickr.

The street art is the portion of Adobe Photoshop palettes covering the posters. If you haven’t figured it out yet,  someone in society is a little pissed about all the retouching in magazines making all the highschool girls cry at night.

I love the idea that someone got huge prints of the palettes and rolled them out and stuck them onto things that even I forget are painfully retouched by multiple PSD wizzes. If only I could be retouched every morning.

You know Xtina looks nasty in the a.m.!