Pixel Art in Urban Spaces: Graffiti & Street Art

Explore the fascinating intersection of pixel art and urban environments. This collection showcases how artists are using the iconic style of 8-bit graphics to create striking graffiti, murals, and street installations. Discover the evolution of this digital art form within the world of street art, from early examples to modern masterpieces. See how pixel art’s bold, blocky aesthetic lends itself beautifully to both large-scale murals and intricate detail work. This archive features artists pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with this unique blend of digital and physical art forms. Delve into the techniques and inspirations behind these vibrant urban creations.

Space Invaders in Düsseldorf

Telephone Helicopter Applause Gunshot is the name of a sweet electronic track by Lorenz Rhode, who says his music sounds like Rick James dating Chaka Khan, dancing to Daft Punk and Technotronic, making sweet love to a Stevie Wonder ballad, when suddenly a group of German robots and a Yellow Magic Orchestra come rushing into the hotel suite and… they all decide to go to France instead. But today it’s not about his music, but about Anne Lucht’s fantastic Space Invader-inspired Telephone Helicopter Applause Gunshot video, which is nominated for the German AAA (Academy Approved Art) Web-Video Award (which will be selected tomorrow) and was decorated with 13 Visual Music Awards 2011… ...

VNA meets Invader

After that marvellous 15th issue of UK’s VNA magazine, some weeks ago the next one was released including a large feature of French tile/ pixel artist Invader! Recently the VNA crew published a nice teaser documenting their meet and greet with the famous street artist, showing a neat insight into the interview which can be found entirely in the 16th VNA issue. I already got my copy for what reason I can promise, that it’s worth it! ...

QR Code meets Street Art?

Today I received an e-mail by the Spanish street art crew La Pluma Eléctri*k, who among other things makes QR code street art. Some of you will now think “Wow, how do they do that?” and the others will think “Heh?! What’s that?”. If you are in the latter case, I will explain QR for you: QR means quick response and is a bare codes 2.0, which was created in 1994 in Japan with comercial purpuse. It’s a code that can decrypted using some special software, which is for example part of modern mobile phones. You take a picture and the program tells you what is inside the pixels. ...

Pixel-Graffiti: Urban Nerdcore

What happens, when a nerd is simultaneous a talented graffiti artist? Right, he sprays so called pixel-graffities! Ano from Taiwan creates computer-game inspired spray-paints. The gaming-pixel-look of his artworks is apparently well-known worldwide. Only I have somehow never heard of it before. The interesting point of this style is, that it’s almost unique. Whether in Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Hamburg, Prag or Krakow, I haven’t seen a similar one ever. So maybe someone gets inspired by the following pictures from Ano’s photostream… ...