The Beauty of Civic Pride: Thousands of Colorful & Unique Manhole Covers in Japan
In the States, we don’t give a second thought to the plain-jane, utilitarian manhole covers that appear on our streets, but apparently nearly 95% of the 1,780 municipalities in Japan have their very own manhole covers that bear designs unique to the location! In a tradition that started in the 1980s, each manhole cover is...
Unbelievable Sugar Murals: Making Street Art Out of Frosting and Sugar
I know there’s been an influx of street art on here lately, but this was too amazing to ignore– Montreal artist Shelley Miller puts up these pieces of sugar street art that are incredibly detailed. From afar, it resembles the blue and white finesse of Delft ceramic ware, but in reality all of these outdoor...
Eerie and Richly Colored Street Art by Aryz
22 year old Barcelona-based street artist Aryz does beautiful illustrations both on canvas and on walls– his outdoor work, however, is notably stunning due to its richly layered hues and enormous size. Sometimes spanning multiple walls, his pieces are lightly outlined with black for a painterly look, and then filled with a host of complementary...
3-Story Tribal Fox: Spectacular Urban Art In Atlanta
I am very, very impressed that this is Trek Matthew‘s first public mural– this spectacular fox titled “cicerone//fox” is nearly 3 stories high, and its covered in bold, tribal-inspired patterns from head to tail. The stark and vivid colors stand out crisply, especially as the illustration crosses from the cloudy painted grey-blue on the bottom...
Anamorphic Illusions: Enormous Paintings That Deceive The Eye
At first glance, there’s nothing spectacular at all about these images– one might assume that a lazy graphic designer simply overlaid some colors and shapes on top of a standard photos. Look again, because these are NOT computer-edited, but rather PAINTED shapes and colors that span entire walls, floors, ceilings, and even entire buildings, and...
Geode Street Art: Creating Crystalline Shapes Out of Paper
Imagine seeing a brief glimmer of light as you round a random corner in L.A. As you lean down to get a better look, you realize that there are sharp, crystalline shapes that appear to be growing organically out of your neighborhood’s pipes and bricks. This is the ingenious Geode Street Art project by artist...
A Big Red Ball Tucked in Unexpected Places: The Redball Project
I’m really surprised that I haven’t come across this project before– The Redball Project is an enormous, traveling public sculpture that is hard to miss, featuring (surprise!) a big, red ball that has been housed in cities all around the world. NYC-based artist Kurt Perschke starts by imagining the red ball as a part of...
Use Styrofoam Ball Eyes To Transform Your Street
I’ve met people who carried around plastic googly eyes to stick on small objects, but these large, ping-pong sized styrofoam ball eyes take street art to a whole new level. German designer Timm Schneider went out of his way to plant and photograph these eyes on everyday, mundane street objects, and the resulting series titled...
Sequin Street Art Spilling Over Urban Spaces
Theresa Himmer is a Czech artist who set up these dazzling pieces of street art in Iceland– using oversized sparkles, she creates nature-specific themes (such as mountains and waterfalls) with obviously manmade materials that can react to the wind and weather. The result is a complete transformation of how we see urban life: part fantastical,...
Bold Strokes and Delicate Layers: Stunningly Realistic Graffiti by El Mac
LA-based artist El Mac is a master of murals– from far away, his spray-painted subjects take on a softened edge with deep shadows, and it isn’t until you get close to the wall that you realize how intricately each layer of spray paint has been laid on top of each other for this amazingly realistic...
Green Sqwear & More: Clean Geometric Street Art Perfection
Paper Donut is a French collective that conceptualizes “geometrical paper volumes and space scenography,” to use their own words. Their street art is impeccable– using spray cans and tape, they construct geometric shapes over a multitude of surfaces, creating images that change depending on which perspective you look at them from. At a certain angle,...
Blank NYC Walls To Draw On
The internet has concluded that pretty much anything designed by the. is perfect– and this Walls Notebook is no exception. The notebook features 80 different images of NYC walls on its pages, so that you can doodle, sketch, and draw on New York, in all of its grimy glory. There are 160 pages in the...
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