Favela Facelift
European-born artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn (aka: Haas&Hahn) are putting a new face on the poor and soulful favelas of Brazil. Their beautiful urban renewal efforts have thus far turned an expansive portion of ...
Melbourne’s Beautiful Overhaul
Refreshingly clean and colorful, the City of Melbourne‘s new identity made Brand New’s “Best of Identities” list for 2009. Can’t say I disagree. The new identity is clean, flexible and says that the city is ...
Ping Pong is Back on the LES
For the next three months, anyone wandering the Lower East Side of New York City can stop by 397 Grand at Suffolk, pick up a paddle and play some good ole fashioned ping pong. The ...
Peering Over You
There is something magical about these massive murals by Cuban-born Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada. The faces aren’t necessarily recognizable except by a few. They are honest. And they are looking over the world’s cities like gentle giants. ...
Ode to Helsinki
Artists in Finland apparently dig their city. Love Helsinki enlisted three designers to create graphic interpretations of various aspects of their city, and then put them on coasters. Handy, beautiful, and a great host/hostess gift ...
Roadsworth Paints the Town in Montreal
Cheeky activist and artist Roadsworth is quickly becoming the Banksy or Shepard Fairey of his hometown Montreal. But rather than spraying his artwork onto blank canvases like a walls or billboards, he uses shadows, stains ...
Taking a Load off Underground
New York artist Jason Eppink offers his fellow subway riders’s feet relief by rescuing functional chairs and placing them in stations with limited seating. Take a Seat is “an ongoing series of public furniture installations ...