Showing posts with the label Street Art

The Moon Villages of South Korea

Dec 17, 2019

After the Korean War ended in 1953, many war refugees and other impoverished people moved to the rapidly developing urban centers and began ...

Somalia’s Hand Painted Storefronts

Apr 12, 2019

Many businesses and shopkeepers in Somalia—which is one of the world’s poorest nations—cannot afford luxuries such as backlit signs and viny...

Letters of Utrecht: The Endless Poem

Nov 3, 2018

In the Dutch city of Utrecht, a poem is growing—one letter at a time, every week, for the past six years. Every Saturday, at around one in...

Michael Pederson’s Fake Street Signs

Oct 17, 2018

Sydney-based artist Michael Pederson creates small signs with humorous messages and tucks them all around his home city at places where you ...

Leiden’s Love Affair With Poems And Equations

Dec 7, 2017

Scattered throughout the city of Leiden, in The Netherlands, are over one hundred poems carefully hand-painted on the exterior walls of buil...

Lyon, The City of Murals

Nov 8, 2017

For the last four decades a group of muralists in the French city of Lyon has been transforming the city into a massive outdoor art gallery....

The Silo Art Trail in Australia

Aug 22, 2017

For more than a hundred years, grain silos doting the plains across the Wimmera-Mallee region of Victoria, Australia, have defined the state...

The Murals of Sherbrooke

Jun 9, 2016

Over the last fifteen years, the city of Sherbrooke, in southern Quebec, Canada, has been trying to animate its old downtown area by creatin...

Hidden Poems on Boston’s Sidewalk Reveal When it Rains

May 24, 2016

For the last few months, Boston’s local artists have been spray painting poetry onto concrete sidewalks using biodegradable, water-repellent...

The Murals of Invergordon

Oct 30, 2015

Invergordon is a small town and port situated on the shores of the Cromarty Firth, in Highland, Scotland. Because of its natural, deep-water...

Ella & Pitr’s Giant Murals of Sleeping People

Aug 28, 2015

French street artist duo Ella and Pitr, from the city of Saint-Etienne, has created a name for themselves in the world of street art over th...

Auckland’s Utility Boxes Get Graffiti Makeover

Jul 31, 2015

Auckland-born artist Paul Walsh has been painting telephone utility boxes around his home city since 2013 with animal characters inspired b...

Exploding Anatomy Street Art of Nychos

Jul 25, 2015

Nychos is a street artist from Austria who creates highly imaginative “exploded-view” murals showing animals, humans and other characters i...

The Comic Book Route in Brussels

Jun 29, 2015

The Comic Book Route in Brussels is a path that takes you along several walls and buildings throughout the inner city of Brussels as well as...

The 5Pointz Graffiti Building in Long Island

Jun 17, 2015

5Pointz was an outdoor art exhibit space at 45–46 Davis Street in Long Island, New York City, where colorful murals were exhibited on the ex...

The Eye Deceiving Murals of Quebec City

Feb 20, 2015

In the last 15 years, a number of fresco paintings have popped up across Quebec City, becoming a real tourist attraction and a major compone...

Taiwanese Village Transforms Itself With Cartoon Murals

Jan 25, 2015

Three sisters have unleashed a new life into the streets of the small Taiwanese village of Huija with a series of colourful murals. The sist...

Mehdi Ghadyanloo’s Playful Street Art in Tehran

May 7, 2014

Iranian artist and designer Mehdi Ghadyanloo , with the help of the municipality, is slowly brightening up the city of Tehran one wall at a ...

Street Art in Lodz, Poland

Apr 24, 2013

Over the last few years, the Polish city of Lodz, is slowly transforming into a permanent exhibition of street art in public spaces. It star...

Creative Street Art by OakOak

Jan 24, 2013

French street artist OakOak converts street objects, signs and other fixtures around his native city of St Etienne, France, into humorous s...