Tag: artists

Guerilla Gardening and Street Art -Turning Torn Ads Into Street Planters

Culture jamming meets recycling meets eco-friendly. If billboard advertisers did this from the start, you’d be they’d get cred.

Art for Obama Illustrated Book Edited by Shepard Fairey Featuring Powerful Street Artists Illustrate Grassroots Movement for Change

Now, in illustrated keepsake form, we can see how so-called fringe players in youth culture helped impact one of the greatest elections in history.

Arkitip X Shepard Fairey X Alife X Incase -How Specific Elements Can Come Together to Create an Entire Movement

Here’s one event, magazine, and T-shirt collaboration not to be missed.

Banksy’s Uber-Secret Summer Graffiti Show in Bristol City Museum Opens and Swoons Floating Armada Arrives at the Venice Biennale

Two more exceptional stories of how street/graffiti artists are impacting the world as we know it, and oh, yes, creating effective grassroots campaigns.

Fashion Week Video Game Launch Brings Virtual Experience to Fans of Fashion

505 Game publishers have teamed up with fashion experts to launch a video game that could be better than the real thing.

Louis Vuitton’s”A Passion for Creation Exhibition” Exemplifies Art and Commerce Starting with Artist Richard Prince’s Pulp Fiction Wrap of the Entire Hong Kong Museum of Art

Ever since Marc Jacobs took the helm in ’97, French lux brand Louis Vuitton has pushed the limits of the meaning of collaborations. Here’s another big one.

Sneaker Pimps, World’s Largest Sneaker Art Show, Brings-Out Top DIY Painted Kicks, Plus Top Artists Painting Live with Xbox360 in the Sponsor Seat

Our man Sole Junkie was on-hand painting live along with TokiDoki’s Italian artist Simone Legno demonstrating how sneaker art has been taken to new levels. Plus more women%uFFFDs kicks.

Lance Armstrong Bike Designs with Pop Artist Kenny Scharf and Street Artist Shepard Fairey Bring Attention to Nike’s”Stages” Benefit Show for Cancer

Great example of how street and pop artists are becoming embedded into the mix as brands and sports celebs seek excitement and cred via artist collabs.

Street Art vs. Adverting: New York Street Advertising Takeover Transforms 120 Illegal Billboards into Artistic Spaces Reclaimed by Street and Graffiti Artists

While street and graffiti artists continue to get harassed, illegal ad billboards proliferate.

Street Art by UK Street Artist Banksy Gets”Framed” by Proud Bristol Fans; Paris Street Artist Andre Chosen as Decorator for Hotel Amour in Paris

Street and graffiti artists continue to rise as the new cultural heroes of our times.