Apple (Brand)

Street artists frequently engage with globally recognized corporate brands like Apple as subjects for reinterpretation and critique. Apple-inspired street art spans from subtle incorporation of the distinctive logo into murals to bold artistic reinterpretations of Apple products themselves. Artists employ various styles—photorealistic rendering, abstract compositions, stencil work, and gestural mark-making—to comment on technology, consumer culture, and corporate influence in contemporary life.

Geo Street Art iPhone App

As if those countless street art iPhone apps are not enough (there’s already an augmented reality tagging app, the All City street art app, an urban art guide app and several others), Geo Street Art launched two new street art iPhone apps this week for locating street art in NYC and London, as RJ recently mentioned. Curated by a global network of experts, working in collaboration with Geo Street Art, the Geo Street Art Apps comprise comprehensive guides to the global street art scene. ...

Augmented Reality Tagging - iPhone App

Augmented Reality is a trendsetting modern technology which has been permanently further developed in the last years. Now there’s a first iPhone app which allows augmented reality tagging the streets: Adorn everything and anything, even those buildings you never thought possible to tag. (about Street Tag) Street Tag turns your iPhone into a spray-can and makes it not just possible for you to virtually spray-paint walls in real time without fearing arrest, but also to share and showcase your tagged walls with others! The highlight: Due to geo-tagging technology and its augmented reality feature, the Street Tag app enables others to see your artworks at the exact place you painted them… ...

Apple Store Busting

One year after those great Apple iPad ad-bustings in Berlin, the trendy computer giant is going to open a flagship-store in Hamburg. That’s nothing special - I mean nowadays there are Apple stores everywhere - but it’s a super moment for a nice and funny guerrilla art installation! And that’s what also the Hamburg-based intervention art group .WAV (what stands for We Are Visual) thought when they recently installed a big and colorful Microsoft Windows logo right at the construction area of the new Apple flagship-store! ...

iPad Busting, Laser Murals, Russian Art Anarchists & Ivy Tags

Urban Art News | As you maybe noticed, I had no time to write during Christmas, but fortunately it’s over now. However, I collected the top urban art news I noticed in the last days, so I’m able to give you an detailed overview about what happened on the streets around the world while we had some more or less contemplative evenings with friends and family. And here we go… ...

Street Art iPhone App

Maybe you realized in some previous articles, that I’m not really a fan of Apple and for that reason it’s not my intention to promote new Apple products or something like that… Nevertheless, I would like inform the Apple users who certainly are under my readership - No, you don’t have to out yourself! - that there’s in addition to that urban art guide app, which is available in Berlin and Hamburg, another new street art app for the iPhone. The name of that new street art guide is “All City” and its aim is to collect and present interesting street art spot around the world… ...

Apple iPad Ad-Busting

Since Apple is bigger than Microsoft - Yes, it’s true! If you don’t believe, read the newspaper. - and not any longer the small, design-focused computer and software forge, Steve Jobs’ company becomes more and more disliked. In Berlin, recently some ads for Apple’s new flagship, the iPad, were busted. Steve Jobs offers iPad users freedom from porn. And yet the iPads’ measures will offer an unprecedented porn experience. An ad-busting from Berlin Mitte. (johannes-p-osterhoff.com) ...

Adidas Urban Art Guide Hamburg

The Adidas Urban Art Guide is an iPhone application which makes it possible for you to find interesting street art spots. It’s like an interactive city art guide and started with a urban shoe rallye in Berlin one year ago. Back then, about 50 street artists, including Emess, Evol, Klub7, Pisa73 and Mymo, hijacked the release with their Dirty Dancing Sneaker Action. Now the service will also be available in Hamburg! “The city is a gallery. The adidas Urban Art Guide is the catalog. When Urban Art entered the scene, art left the galleries. Their characters populate the whole urban landscape. Especially in a young and international city like Berlin they follows us at every turn like a second population. ...

KR Interview

I already wrote sometimes about the New York-based urban artist Craig KR Costello. The last article, was about his cooperation with Mini, where he painted a Mini Cooper in his special dripping style. Today I show you an interesting video about KR and the KRink. It contains some statements of him and tries to explain, why there will be an KR-styled Apple notebook sleeve by Incase… ...