MetaFilter posts tagged with urban and streetart

São Paolo sewer openings

mediareport — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:38:26 -0800

Sewer openings turned into street art by São Paolo duo 6emeia. [via FunForever]

Like lane markings, but better

optimuscrime — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:23:49 -0800

Like lane markings, but better. Montreal artist Roadsworth transforms street markings into boots, bullets, and zippers. Sad postscript? He's been busted.

bogota street art

vacapinta — Mon, 31 May 2004 01:55:21 -0800

Popular De Lujo: A portrait of a city (Bogota, Colombia) through its folk art and street graphics. "Some sections of this site are not translated in order to keep the original and true sense of local idiomatic expressions which have no precise equivalent in other languages. However, you will realize that the graphic language is so rich in shapes and colours, that it speaks for itself."

Street art not graffiti

vacapinta — Sun, 04 Apr 2004 10:27:43 -0800

Urban Haute Couture "is about street art and street art only. Since a couple of years ago there's a boom in street art. To be clear we're not talking about graffiti. We're talking about street art that is spraypaint/marker template based, stickers, posters and combinations of those. This new breed of street art, except for using the urban landscape as a medium, has actually nothing to do with graffiti." Cities include Berlin, Amsterdam and the Romanian Stencil Archive.