Crate Tetris

From Melbourne. Coming soon: Shipping Container Tetris – looks like Freitag have already made a start. (via Wooster Collective)

David Rainbird
Posted on Thursday, 6th of July 2006 Permalink

Aeolian door numbers

The island of Salina in the Aeolian Islands was the beautiful location for the classic Italian film IL POSTINO. These beautiful hand painted villa numbers must give Mr Postino a daily nightmare!
flickr set

Dave Brown
Posted on Thursday, 18th of May 2006 Permalink

Roadsworth vs Montreal

In Montreal, lassoes appear from drains, pedestrian crossings become giant footprints and vines grow on stop lines. In Spacing, Laura Boudreau writes about Peter Gibson aka Roadsworth who since 2001 has been transforming street markings and furniture with some very witty stencil graffiti.

In November last year Peter was arrested on 51 counts (count ’em) of mischief by Montreal Police that sparked a debate about whether this was art or vandalism. Roadsworth must have stencilled a window in his cell and climbed out of it – he’s just had all the charges dropped. His only punishment is a minor fine and 40 hours of community work – namely a public art commission.

See more of Roadsworth’s work at Zeke’s Gallery on Flickr. (via Brand Avenue)

David Rainbird
Posted on Tuesday, 28th of February 2006 Permalink

Spray Paint, Stencil, Multimeter

The Graffiti Research Lab has been messing around with conductive paint, magnetic paint and LEDs to create Electro-Grafs. The video instructions on their recently switched-on blog look complicated to say the least – you’ll need an electronics expert and several hours to create one of these.
The Lab has also switched on it’s own blog with video how-tos of this and another project – LED Throwies.

David Rainbird
Posted on Monday, 27th of February 2006 Permalink

1 New Message

If you’ve stumbled across any framed texts in public places around London lately, Jeremy Kunze is probably the culprit. They are literally framed texts, because graphic designer Jeremy has been collecting text messages, then framing and leaving them in spaces that relate to the original message, for example a text conversation about a tennis match is hung on the net.

He’s also collaborated with his partner Jane to create Jane & Jeremy – a website of their creative projects. The thrift-chic clothes, arty photographs and handmade books are all available to buy. My favourite is the collection of kisses from films – like the end bit of Cinema Paradisio in book form.

David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 17th of February 2006 Permalink

Handselecta

There are no well-designed graffiti typefaces – until now. Typographers Christian Acker and Kyle Talbott collaborate with graffiti artists and release the work as Handselecta fonts. They argue that just as calligraphy inspired the type designs that we use today, today’s urban glyphs should inspire future type designs. The first volume includes graf artists such as Joker, Mene, Mesh, Mesk, & Sabe – (tip for graffiti artists – get a four letter name) and the results are stunning. See the font, then buy the T-shirt – designed by Sabe. Dope!

David Rainbird
Posted on Tuesday, 31st of January 2006 Permalink

Knittas with Attitude

In Houston, Texas, some interesting urban tagging has been seen of late. It’s colourful, soft to the touch and has a high wool content. It is the work of AKrylik, PolyCotN and the rest of the Knitta Crew who have taken to attaching knitted graffiti to lampposts, car antennae, door knobs and anything else they fancy.Link (via Supernaturale)

Gary Butcher
Posted on Wednesday, 25th of January 2006 Permalink

Tennessee Trytosee

A little bit of the South in South London. This stencil graffiti cleverly transforms the base of a surveillance camera pole into an anti-surveillance Jack Daniel’s bottle. The text reads:

Jack Shit’s Going On
Old 50
Trytosee Identity
Whiskey
Officer Drunk on Surveillance

David Rainbird
Posted on Saturday, 14th of January 2006 Permalink

CAMPER -  Walk in progress

The CAMPER store on Westbourne Grove, London is undergoing some long term restorations. A temporary store has been set up whilst they wait for the larger space to be developed. A simple and extremely effected use of shoe boxes combined with doodled graffiti wall decoration creates a superb, original, useful and recyclable retail environment.

Dave Brown
Posted on Thursday, 12th of January 2006 Permalink