Explore the vibrant world of art found on the streets, from bold graffiti to intricate murals and captivating installations. Discover inspiring urban creativity.
From humble sneakers to towering boots, shoes have become an unexpected canvas for urban artists. This collection explores the fascinating intersection of footwear and street art, showcasing incredible examples of graffiti, murals, and custom designs painted, stitched, and sculpted onto shoes. Discover how artists transform everyday items into striking statements, exploring themes of individuality, rebellion, and self-expression through this unique medium. Browse through various styles, techniques, and the stories behind the art, finding inspiration in the creative reuse and bold transformation of a common object.
Calligraffiti Throw-Ups
Urban Art Show | The upcoming show by Niels “Shoe” Meulman, who recently painted a car in his well-known calligraffiti style, in Los Angeles seems to become rather interesting! It’s called “Calligraffiti Throw Ups” and features “new series of carbon acrylic on linen canvas works inspired by Shoe’s love for baseball, mayhem and cosmic unconsciousness”, which in my ears sounds quite spectacular with a lot of splatter effects, drips and of course high-level calligraphy…
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Car Tagging meets Breast Cancer!?
Mini had KR, Levi’s had Shepard Fairey, the WWF had Photoshop and now, Mercedes Benz has Niels Shoe Meulman and his calligraffiti…
Mercedes-Benz asked the calligraffiti artist Niels Meulman to customize a white Mercedes B-Class with hundreds of women’s names. These names symbolise all the Dutch women for whom the Pink Ribbon foundation works tirelessly. (graffart.eu)
Of course, this is advertising but I love Shoe’s flow and style and it’s for a good thing - Pink Ribbon is an international symbol of breast cancer awareness…Now I will go out with my markers and follow the subliminal message of that ad by tagging the next Mercedes! Who’s coming?
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Some weeks ago, I presented the “Calligraffiti” book by Niels Shoe Meulman to you and described it as a very interesting art book because it contains a lot of amazing and very exactly and detailed artworks. Some days ago, Shoe agree to give my an short interview and I tried to get as much as info about his personal background as well as about the ideas behind Calligraffiti. I hope you’ll like it…
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Calligraffiti: Graffiti meets Calligraphy!
A month ago, I told you about that very interesting art book by king calligrapher Niels “Shoe” Meulman. Now it’s, in addition to the Modart No. 01, in my possession and I’m very happy about that!
With prologues by John Langdon and Adam Eeuwens, who are internationally active graphic designers and typographers, the about 120 pages book impress with high-quality photographs of Shoe’s artworks as well as with some great digital vector artworks.
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