Krink Markers: The Ultimate Guide to Graffiti & Street Art

Last year, I posted an article about Swedish interventional urban artist Glitsh and the parking space tape art. Today I found another great project by Glitsh: The Krink vs. Dior paint battle! It’s a relative easy and mean intervention, but really good as I think! Glitsh organized some red nail varnish by Dior and some red ink by Krink and decant the Krink into the nail varnish’s tank. Afterwards, the artist boxed the krinked nail varnish and an additional flyer into the original Dior box and placed the modified cosmetic utensil back in a Dior shop. ...

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… ...

This is an amazing video - silver drips on black metal! As I already told you before, I love the abstract style of KR’s artworks. And when I saw the nice photos of the “Krinked” Mini Cooper, I was really charmed! Yesterday, Mini and KRink published the corresponding video clip, which shows KR while customizing the car, the car itself and the beautiful drippy lines on it. ...

It’s the fourth time this week, that I wrote something about New York-based street artist KR - a new record! Last weekend, I informed you about his cooperation with auto-manufacturer Mini, today the first photos of this event were published! KR customized a Mini Cooper S in his very own style in Hamburg. The car is outfitted in his signature silver-drip KRINK aesthetic and will be shown this Saturday at Vicious Gallery. Additionally you’re able to take a look at other new artworks by him. ...

Almost every bigger fashion label used street art or graffiti for their commercials or got directly in contact with international urban art protagonists in the last years. A few already have their own gallery! Street art is popular and for this reason en vogue. Also jeans fabricator Levi’s goes with the trend and brought two well-known urban artists on board of its advertising campaigns in the last weeks. On the one hand, Shepard Fairey made a whole poster series - the Levi’s collaboration graphics - in his famous Obey-style and on the other hand, KR designed some jeans and jackets for them. ...

Last week, I got the new issue of the “Hidden Champion”. It’s a free Japanese urban magazine, featuring hidden champions of many cultures. This time, well-known graffiti artist Craig “KR” Costello respectively one of his fire extinguishers is on the front page! In addition to great pictures of his artworks, there’s an interview with him. By the way, do you Remember that KR is in Hamburg next week! This issue also contains portfolios of the skateboarders Quim Cardona, Yoshiaki Toeda, Joey Pepper, Henry Panza, Ricky Oyola and Rob Welsh, an interview with BMX-pro Masato Nishino, and articles about some other interesting people. ...

Craig “KR” Costello is in Hamburg next week! In cooperation with auto-manufacturer Mini, he will paint a brand new car which will be presented in the “Ersteliebebar” and at Vicious Gallery. KR, who grew up in New York, founded his own company for paint, markers, and other graffiti equipment, named KRink, several years ago. He’s is famous for his abstract and colorful fire extinguisher drip-pieces, which can be found around the globe. Now, he has brought fresh new artworks to Hamburg, which will be shown additionally to the painted car. ...