Graffiti Inspired Street Art: September 2012

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.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

War On Graffiti

So looks like L.A. just like London are cracking down big time on graffiti, and handing out heavy sentences...
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Monday, September 3, 2012

Olympic Street Art

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


Some Olympic inspired Street art from London 2012 Olympics...
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