Urban Art & Graffiti Illustrations: Inspiring Designs

Dive into our extensive archive of articles exploring the captivating world of illustration within urban art. From bold graffiti pieces to intricate street art designs, we showcase the talent and creativity of artists who transform urban landscapes into canvases. Discover how illustration techniques are used to enhance street art, explore the evolution of styles, and find inspiration for your own creative projects. Browse through analyses of iconic works, artist interviews, and insightful discussions on the cultural impact of illustrated urban art. Get ready to be amazed by the skill and imagination on display.

Urban Illustration: Zosen in London

As I told you, the premier UK solo show by Barcelona-based street artist Zosen called “System Collapse” is currently running in London! The art show presents an interesting collection of colorful, very detailed and funny canvas paintings and additionally a limited edition screen print. The simplicity of the imagery in psychedelic colours references a plethora of social and political issues, juxtaposing the heavily distorted photo imagery of today’s consumer society with naive, two dimensional characters and imaginary of primitive African art and Latin-American Folklore. In System Collapse, symbols saturated in colour represent the inequalities and injustices that separate the First and Third Worlds. (StolenSpace Gallery) ...

Urban Design: Peachbeach Exhibition

Next week, the three Peachbeach-boys will exhibit at Berlin’s West Berlin Gallery! Peachbeach is a fraternity of three village delinquents who wound up in the great capital of Berlin because of its vibrancy and dazzling colours. Harnessing varied cultural backgrounds, we were able to use different expressive accents to our advantage, fusing the most diverse creative approaches into one edgy mix of illustrative force, sensitive typography and ironic societal games. (About Peachbeach) ...

BP Ad-Busting: Butt Phuck

The oil flows and flows and flows and no one seems able to do something. And also the pressure on the BP Group keeps within a limit… For that reason, creative people started to organize their own protest against BP and its negligently offshore oil-drillings. There are a lot of BP fake press releases, ironic videos and other creative works in the internet. The most recent I found today are nice BP ad-busting illustrations by Imp Kerr & Associates, NYC. ...

Urban Illustrations - Gogoplata

Yesterday evening, the urban illustration exhibition “Catharsis Impossible” by Gogoplata started at the ATM Gallery in Berlin. I visited the well-frequented opening and took some shots of these really grandiose and amusing artworks! Growing up in Berlin the comic book enthusiast Gogoplata taught himself the craft of drawing early on. On the streets of Berlin he developed his skills as a graffiti artist for years while at the same time working as a professional cartoon designer and animator. (ATM) ...

Slanted #9 – Stencil & Type Mag

Do you know the Slanted magazine? It’s a typography magazine, which exists since 2005 and is published quarterly. It combines the sectors typography, layout, illustration and photography. The ninth issue, named “Stencil. Type.”, of the Slanted magazine is about stencil fonts and their modern applications! “Slanted presents the innovative work of Gavillet & Rust and their fontlabel Optimo (Geneva), the large format paintings of Christopher Wool (New York), an impressive photo series of Francois Fleruy (Paris) and many more. The sections “Fontlabels, Fonts & Families”, “Fontnames Illustrated” and “Typolyrics” introduce contemporary fonts and designers from all over the world, followed by interviews with John Boardley, Kouga Hirano and Chip Kidd and an interesting type essay by Hannes von Döhren.” ...