Urban Art Core

Street art and graffiti
magazine, 2009–2012

Theme

Collection 8 posts Street art without spray paint

Tape, yarn and cardboard

Gaffer tape, cotton thread and cardboard boxes: artists who built their work from the cheapest materials in the city.

These posts follow artists who swapped the spray can for tape, thread and cardboard, many of them in Berlin.

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  1. 1

    BUFFdiss: Australian Tape Art in Berlin!

    BUFFdiss brings Australian tape art to Berlin.

  2. 2

    Woollen Art: Spider Tags

    Spider Tags: geometric street work in cotton thread.

  3. 3

    Geometrical Graffiti: Graphic Surgery

    Graphic Surgery’s tape and spray-paint abstractions.

  4. 4

    Tape Art: Pool Installation - Buffdiss

    A tape installation grows in the Stattbad pool.

  5. 5

    Clemens Behr - Cardboard Installations

    Clemens Behr builds with cardboard, wood and tape.

  6. 6

    Yarn-Bombing Berlin: Moneyless, Hottea & Spidertag

    Moneyless, Hottea, Spidertag and Aimee Dymond yarn-bomb Berlin.

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    Buff Diss & Clemens Behr in Berlin

    Buff Diss and Clemens Behr together at a Berlin Christmas market.

  8. 8

    Urban Crochet Art

    Olek and crochet as a street art tool.

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