Berlin-based urban artist Manuel Osterholt aka Superblast is going to have a new exhibition in Berlin this month! Since 1989, Superblast discovered the world of graffiti, which made him detect his own, Hip Hop, Punk Rock and skateboarding influenced style. As a graphic designer he works with a lot of big brands like Sony Playstation, Ecko and Montana. His book Neo Utopia, which is part of some of our urban photo contest prize packages, presents his whole career, starting with style-writing in Heidelberg to street art influenced graphic design and painting in Berlin. ...

There are many different graffiti-inspired designs, like urban wear, magazine and web layouts, skateboard decks or something else. I will show you some very interesting and fresh, graffiti-inspired interior designs! Spray-Can Cocktail Shaker No joke, this stainless steel cocktail shaker that comes disguised as a graffiti-writer’s spray-can is what I ever wanted to have! “What appears to be a paint can primed for graffiti is actually a cocktail shaker waiting to prime your pump - the cap of the shaker even has an arrow on the top, like a can of spray paint! The back of the can features a removable label full of drink recipes to try out on your amused guests.” (Via boingboing.net) ...

Update: Here are the winners of the Urban Photo Contest… Today it’s the launch-day of this new, independent, street, design, urban art & photography blog. To have a great start, I came up with the plan to do this photo contest with lots of great prizes! Urban Photo Contest - Huh?!? First of all I have to say that this is an international photo contest and I hope that a lot of people will join the competition. The thematic priority of urbanartcore.eu is roughly speaking everything which has to do with “urban”. Hence the contest rules are very easy: ...

Have you ever been interested in creating an illegal graffiti? No? Go for it! Everything is legal! Nothing will be destroyed or damaged. Everything is virtual. Imagine a virtual wall. Using your browser you select the background of your choice and start spraying with your digital spray can. In this way the makers of the Wii Spray announce their innovative development! Wii Spray is a real-looking spray can, developed for the Nintendo Wii console. It combines virtual graffiti action with realistic behavior including different caps and colors! It gives graffiti a new virtual level outside of the real existing world. ...

Halo - LED Spray Can For some time, light-writing is a new trend activity of some urban artists, creative nerds and other, both technically and artistically, interested people. Recently, Paris-based designer Aïssa Logerot developed a new, trend-setting instrument, called “Halo”. It looks like a spray can, with an LED light in place of a nozzle, whereby graffiti artists are able to use it like their original spray cans, with the same gestures! ...

He is one of the greatest stencil artists of our time. Some time ago he made a double exhibition in Berlin’s Intoxicated Demons Gallery and ATM Gallery. If you have not heard of C215, you should better be careful, because we have spoken with the nice, world-travelling, French artist about his art and his motives! uac: Who are you? Where are you from? And what means C215? C215: I am a street art junkie, 35 years old, living in Paris. C215 is just my name, coming from a cell where I stayed a long time ago. It sounds like Chris, but with numbers. I love to hear it said in different languages. ...

Do you know reverse graffiti? Imagine you sit in a car an the windows are so dirty, that you can draw little figures, slogans or tags onto it with your fingers - that’s reverse graffiti! It is the art to make detailed, stencil art alike images out of dirt. “Do not spray, but cleaning” is the motto! This is why the reverse graffiti artists use soap, high pressure cleaners and water instead of brushes and cloths. ...

Zeus’ 3D Graffiti Sculpture At the age of fourteen the in London born Dean Zeus Colman began to work off his creativity on the streets. At that time he left, like many others, “just” tags on the streets. Who could know in the 80s that this little boy will be sixteen years later the first graffiti artists, who would exhibit in the Victoria and Albert Museum of art and design? Probably no one except his parents! ...

In her urban artworks Faith47 reflects her inner emotions and binds them to an rounded impression, which remains never without significance. Her artworks claim to be respected and interpreted. Once again, the smart South African has taken the nerve of the time! With her current work “The Cape Of Good Hope”, a mixture of poster art and paintings, Faith47 calls attention to the political and social problems in South Africa’s Cape Town and tries to fight against the wide social injustices. ...

Barry McGee, Ed Templeton and Raymond Pettibon represent - everyone for himself - the subcultural worlds of skateboarding, graffiti and punk. They are classified as underground-heroes, who are established in the top class of contemporary fine arts. In april their different artworks were presented for the first time as an art group exhibition: “McGee’s sad, sullen faces and neon-colored geometric panels reflect the archetypal image of man overpowered by omnipresent media, Templeton’s portraits of suburban youths perfectly illustrate the harsh alienation of teenage life, while Pettibon’s drawings and paintings focus sharply on issues of personal/social unrest, life during war and the constant power struggle between a man and his destiny.” ...