Today I received an interesting message by LukeDaDuke - The Temporary Art Centre and cultural initiative WEI organise a no budget, mixed media festival including an cardboard art exhibition… The American city Detroit is the inspiration source for the No budget festival this year. I have been asked to fill a van with art for this festival. And I want you to join me in this project by making art on cardboard and send it to me. The size of the carboard is limited to A2. ...

The Berlin-based Redspective label is currently showing amazing typography posters and prints by the two urban and typography artists Otto Baum (Klub7) and Sven Neitzel (Nepomuk)! Dot per Dot is a collaborative project between Otto Baum and Sven Neitzel focusing on blurring the border between illustration and graphic de sign. The two designers use self-made type faces and playful drawings in order to attempt to shift these borders. It was the aim of the two designers to interpret old gra phic forms and create a new approach to design. The exhibtion will also include older works from the artists past 2 years. (redspective.com) ...

“Backjumps” goes into the next round - The popular street art and urban intervention exhibition project with its long history opens the doors for the “Backjumps 4.2 Junior Issue” at the end of this week and will in addition to an exhibition present workshops for kids and still-kids… As usual, the line-up includes the big names of the international urban art scene: Victor Ash (Copenhagen), Martha Cooper (New York), Dave the Chimp and Poet & Aski (Berlin), Delta and Pips Lab (Amsterdam), Jonone and Skki (Paris), Mode2 (London). ...

The world’s biggest graffiti festival, the legendary international Meeting Of Styles, took place in the Highbury Studios in north London for the last two day. In addition to London-based graffiti legends as Tizer or She1 about 50 other international well-known wall painters and graffiti artists - for example Inkfetish, 3Steps, MadC, Probs, Korps, Dran, Sowat, Bomk, Sebasura, Liliwenn (teaser-shot) - participated and created in that way a fantastic graffiti atmosphere! Since its inception in 2002, Meeting Of Styles has organised more than 70 events, reached more than 120,000 people, and spread its creativity, passion and message across 16 countries. Their mission? To add ‘colour and vitality to blank urban landscapes in a creative and relaxed atmosphere whilst leaving a legacy of art,’ and with such a broad range of graffiti styles on offer they’re certainly taking the London festival seriously. (ukstreetart.co.uk) ...

Yesterday, I was asked whether I know a video of famous stencil artist Evol creating one of his proper stencil artworks. And yes, it came into my mind that I posted such an video about an year ago on an other blog! For me, the most impressing thing about Evol’s stencil artworks are the details. It’s amazing with which precision he forms interesting urban scenes by using several stencil layers. Sometimes it’s impossible to imagine how he did it and that’s why this video is that great. Now you are able to get an idea about the complex development process! ...

As you maybe noticed, Brooklyn’s infamous collagist and urban artist Bäst is in London for his first solo exhibition called “Botulism”! Bäst, who has been part of the international street art scene for the last ten years, presents in that show new artworks, especially screen-printings, which are inspired by the early punk flyers of London and New York. Showing 21st Century icons and imagery from all types of media. The crazy thing about his very successful screen-printings is, that they don’t look like a screen-printing, but like real collages! I was highly impressed by that fact, the joke within his artworks and the small talk I had with him. ...

A lot new street art and graffiti things happened in the last days and my feed reader is again full of plenty of amazing new artworks, street artist specials, exhibition infos, photos around the public arts. Last time the Urban Art Eye Candy link-tips were about “Sex Art, Murals, 3D Installations & Interviews”, today I will provide the latest links to “Graffiti Trip, Facebook Stickers & Tetris Art”. Cassiopeia Painting Action Some days ago, the back wall of Berlin’s Cassiopeia club was painted by eight artists from three different continents! Nelio, Tobler One, Tom, Fase, Czarnobyl, Nuroc, Barry Gold and Tec did their best and created a nice new mural… ...

Unfortunately I’ve never been to New York City, yet. And for that reason, I had no chance to follow that thin trail of paint which goes through whole Lower Manhattan. That’s really pity, ’cause that line is probably the biggest tag on earth! As Nick and George from Brooklyn investigated, the paint trail - when you follow it around - forms a big MOMO tag… After requesting a meetup, MOMO told my friend that he accomplished this task by fixing 5 gallon paint buckets to the back of his bike, poking a hole in the bottom of the containers, and riding though the West Village, Soho, Greenwich Village, East Village, and Alphabet City. Momo made the tag in 2006. Some parts of the line have been covered up by roadwork and redone sidewalks but most of the line is still visible. ...

In 2009, a very interesting graffiti book called “Subway World” was published by Dokument Press, which somehow past my attention. Anyway, here is the article about that clean book about international train graffiti… Subway World is a book about graffiti on subway trains all over the world. What started in New York in the seventies has become an worldwide artform with thousands of artists. The tradition of using subway cars as canvases has been preserved and has become an integrated part of the graffiti movement. Subway World takes you through more than 70 cities and four different continents. (dokument.org) ...

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) ...