Graffiti Inspired Street Art: 2012

Friday, October 12, 2012

Buenos Aires Street Art

Blog i found with some pictures of interesting street art from Argentina.

click here to view the blog

Shepard Fairey Talking About Obama and Bits.

An interview with the notorious Shepard Fairy... interesting to some, i'm sure... Click for interview

Monday, September 10, 2012

Zara Stealing Ideas.. Hmm what a suprise..

Zara’s reputation for appropriating illegal street art for its own profit is as notorious as the graffiti tags the retail chain turns into mass produced T-shirts. The latest victim, Patrick Waldo, is a New York-based street artist claiming that Zara copied, and then printed his iconic art onto a new batch of $16.90 T-shirts. Mr Waldo spent over a year writing his signature tag ‘mustache’ on glamorous New York City subway ads until he was arrested in 2011, but when he saw a Zara T-shirt featuring a skull augmented with a similar mustache, he says he quickly recognized his work.

War On Graffiti

So looks like L.A. just like London are cracking down big time on graffiti, and handing out heavy sentences...

Olympic Street Art

http://londonist.com/2012/07/in-pictures-olympics-street-art.php

Some Olympic inspired Street art from London 2012 Olympics...
Read more here.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

50 Beautifula Artworks

From Smashing Magazine their top 50 most rated graffiti and street art pieces..

Some of the artists listed below
Michael.jh, Bansky, Mrzer, Deuce 7, zevs, imminentdisaster, Marquis Lewis, Retna Saber Revok SeventhLetter, Mr Mucho, Gaia, Muck, Obey, Lady Pink, Xenz: Graeme Brusby, Saber, 6emeia, Vancouver Street Art, Chiado, Paopao, Jakedobkin, Lois In Wonderland, Wouldpkr, Hammotime, Abigaelarachnid, Newfie Bullet, Omen, Newfie Bullet, Loupiote, Stuart Herbert, Seetwist, Wickedcliche, Akbar Simonse, Marco, Josepalencia, Tonogayora, Guy Fawkes, Allan Dalla, Kekko73, Cloud-TA, Loupiote, Laughing Squid,