{ "count": 70, "description": "Design that borrows from the street: objects, interiors, typography and products.", "jsonFeed": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-design/feed.json", "posts": [ { "date": "2012-08-16", "description": "VNA Magazine 19 is out! Featuring Anthony Lister, Lowbros, How\u0026Nosm, Best Ever, Twoone, ECB, Remed and many more urban artists. Here are first insights!", "title": "VNA Magazine #19: Anthony Lister Edition", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/vna-magazine-19-anthony-lister-edition/" }, { "date": "2012-08-13", "description": "Clemens Behr is one of the most talented abstract urban artists in Germany. Here he talks about his influences and shows his workflow...", "title": "Clemens Behr Video Interview", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/clemens-behr-video-interview/" }, { "date": "2012-08-13", "description": "Urban Furniture: This concrete chair by Swiss designer Stefan Zwicky is a masterpiece of urban-inspired interior and a must to have for me!", "title": "Concrete Chair - Urban Interior", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/concrete-chair-urban-interior/" }, { "date": "2012-07-21", "description": "It's safe to say that London stencil artist Fin DAC is a stencil art virtuoso. Recently a portrait of him was filmed in his very own studio. Watch it now!", "title": "Fin DAC, A London Stencil Artist", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/fin-dac-london-stencil-artist/" }, { "date": "2012-07-19", "description": "This is an exclusive preview of Blackjack, the latest stencil artwork by London-based stencil art master Fin DAC. Check this out and be astonished!", "title": "Fin DAC’s Blackjack Stencil - Exclusive Preview", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/fin-dac-blackjack-stencil-exclusive-preview/" }, { "date": "2012-07-16", "description": "Graffiti master Futura 2000 was interviewed by Hennessy because of their latest cognac-bottle collaboration. This is the full interview!", "title": "Graffiti Master Interview: Futura 2000 for Hennessy", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/graffiti-master-interview-futura-2000-hennessy/" }, { "date": "2012-06-20", "description": "Klebstoff (German for glue) is the first magazine worldwide that completely consists of stickers! I just received the latest, fourth issue of the mag containing sticker works by 18 artists...", "title": "Klebstoff #4 Sticker Magazine", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/klebstoff-4-sticker-magazine/" }, { "date": "2012-06-14", "description": "Urban art crew Klub7 was interviewed by Gestalten and discussed the joy of artistic interactions, chalk and the evolution of graffiti!", "title": "Klub7 Talks About Chalk", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/klub7-talks-about-chalk/" }, { "date": "2012-06-04", "description": "London Art: Fin DAC’s female stencil art series is a great example of what’s possible combining a single-layer stencil and creative skills!", "title": "Fin DAC’s Female Stencil Art Series", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/findac-female-stencil-art/" }, { "date": "2012-05-15", "description": "The Alex Diamond Mining Company is the latest chapter in the unusual story of Alex Diamond, an artist project evading a fixed personality...", "title": "The Unusual Story of Alex Diamond", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/the-unusual-story-of-alex-diamond/" }, { "date": "2012-04-14", "description": "The 10th issue of Swiss Amateur Magazine is out now, including DXTR on the cover and interviews with Smash137, Tom Fellner and others!", "title": "Amateur Magazine #10 - DXTR Edition", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/amateur-magazine-10-dxtr-edition/" }, { "date": "2012-04-07", "description": "Evan Roth’s work process takes inspiration from free software movement and hacker ethos. His latest series is called Propulsion Paintings...", "title": "Evan Roth’s Propulsion Paintings", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/evan-roth-propulsion-paintings/" }, { "date": "2012-03-30", "description": "Next month, Danny Doom, Hr.v.Bias, Ink-a-zoid and other Berlin-based artist present their latest Berlin illustration works in one show: Modern Dopeness!", "title": "Modern Dopeness - Contemporary Berlin Illustration Styles", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/modern-dopeness-contemporary-berlin-illustration-styles/" }, { "date": "2012-03-30", "description": "Anne Lucht’s visual music clip takes you to Düsseldorf, Germany, introducing a low-res alien gang bopping their heads to Lorenz Rhode’s krautrocky tune.", "title": "Space Invaders in Düsseldorf", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/space-invaders-in-dusseldorf/" }, { "date": "2012-03-28", "description": "Berlin-based urban design duo 44flavours and urban artist Clemens Behr just teamed up to create a massive wood and cardboard collaboration!", "title": "44flavours feat. Clemens Behr", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/44flavours-feat-clemens-behr/" }, { "date": "2012-03-21", "description": "Upside Down, Left to Right is a short film about the letterpress revival and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK.", "title": "Upside Down, Left to Right: The Letterpress Revival", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/upside-down-left-to-right-the-letterpress-revival/" }, { "date": "2012-03-15", "description": "Geo Street Art iPhone App? Yes, this is another app, providing functionality to share and discover street art in New York and London curated by a global network of urban art experts...", "title": "Geo Street Art iPhone App", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/geo-street-art-iphone-app/" }, { "date": "2012-03-07", "description": "With mind bending meticulous detail, Usugrow’s work crosses the line between bad ass and refined elegance, between punk and calligraphy...", "title": "Usugrow - Japanese Punk Calligraphy", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/usugrow-japanese-punk-calligraphy/" }, { "date": "2012-01-16", "description": "Skateboard sculptor Haroshi from Japan recently opened a great exhibition in Los Angeles, showing his latest skateboard sculptures made of broken decks! I love that fuckfinger...", "title": "Skateboard Sculptures by Haroshi", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/skateboard-sculptures-haroshi/" }, { "date": "2012-01-03", "description": "Do you ever saw urban art umbrella designed by well-known artists like A1one, Papermonster or Cabaio on the streets of your city? If not you should check them out...", "title": "Urban Art Umbrellas", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-art-umbrellas/" }, { "date": "2011-12-15", "description": "The Protester is the person of the year! And what’s equally interesting is the fact that no one else than Shepard Fairey himself designed the cover, again...", "title": "Shepard Fairey: Protester of the Year", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/shepard-fairey-protester-of-the-year/" }, { "date": "2011-12-10", "description": "Style Needs No Color works on the notion that excessive colors and flashy techniques should not be used to repair a weak foundation. It’s a perfect book for fans of urban-inspired illustration...", "title": "Style needs no Color - Urban Illustration", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/style-needs-no-color-urban-illustration/" }, { "date": "2011-10-19", "description": "I never saw an graffiti umbrella before so I liked the idea by Dutch graffiti artists Sons and Romeo who recently customized their umbrellas using spray-paint! The ultimate thing against the upcoming wet weather...", "title": "DIY Graffiti Umbrellas", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/diy-graffiti-umbrellas/" }, { "date": "2011-10-07", "description": "Artconnect Berlin is a networking platform with the aim to become the online core of the creative community in Berlin, facilitating the flow of information, contact, ideas, jobs and services, promoting the development of artistic projects in Berlin.", "title": "Artconnect Berlin: Artists Network", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/artconnect-berlin/" }, { "date": "2011-09-30", "description": "Matthew Cusick uses transamerican physical maps to create fantastic portrait-works by cutting and pasting small map-snippets together! The results are just superb and a must to see...", "title": "Transamerican Map Works", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/transamerican-map-works/" }, { "date": "2011-08-01", "description": "Those Skateboard Shades are the perfect an accessory every skateboard enthusiast around the globe! Produced by Eric Singer and made from broken decks, this first experimental version looks mega-dope!", "title": "Skateboard Shades", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/skateboard-shades/" }, { "date": "2011-07-24", "description": "Hamburg-based rapper Samy Deluxe, the Typeholics design studio and other creative heads just created a new great music video for his new single Poesie Album. Including some nice tag-styles and calligraphy, this video makes fun!", "title": "Samy Deluxe Poetry Tagging", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/samy-deluxe-poetry-tagging/" }, { "date": "2011-06-11", "description": "", "title": "Anthony Lister Live Art Performance", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/anthony-lister-live-art-performance/" }, { "date": "2011-05-26", "description": "Ron English is one of the most famous pop art related painters and interventional artists worldwide. Have you ever entered his studio?", "title": "Ron English Studio Visit", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/ron-english-studio-visit/" }, { "date": "2011-05-15", "description": "Urbanartcore redesigned - Today started a new era for this street art and graffiti blog. Urbanartcore comes with a new look and feel and even more urban art news!", "title": "Urbanartcore Evolution", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urbanartcore-evolution/" }, { "date": "2011-04-04", "description": "The official kick-off event of this year’s “Pictoplasma Festival of Contemporary Character Design and Art” is the so-called character walk, combining several galleries and art spaces in Berlin...", "title": "Pictoplasma Character Walk", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/pictoplasma-character-walk/" }, { "date": "2011-02-14", "description": "“Je t’aime” and “I love you!” - Mr. Brainwash sends us warm-hearted wishes, printed on paper. The most controversial artists in the street art scene uses Valentines Day to make his love art public...", "title": "Mr. Brainwash: Happy Valentines Day", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/mr-brainwash-happy-valentines-day/" }, { "date": "2011-02-08", "description": "Boris Hoppek is one of the most famous German street artists. The former graffiti artist lives now in Barcelona and is well-known for his sexual artworks as well as his Bimbo-dolls. Here’s an interview...", "title": "Vagina-Inspired Interview: Boris Hoppek", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/vagina-inspired-interview-boris-hoppek/" }, { "date": "2011-01-31", "description": "There are only four days left to join the “Art Stars” competition by Polo Jeans Co. Ralph Lauren. Hurry up to win a place in a interesting mentorship program, reputation and some money...", "title": "Art Stars Competition", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/art-stars-competition/" }, { "date": "2011-01-18", "description": "Famous graffiti artist MadC had another nice example of graffiti-inspired interior design built! She now has her own chair which consist of about 100 empty spray-cans... ", "title": "Spray-Can Chair: Mad-700", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/spray-can-chair-mad-700/" }, { "date": "2011-01-14", "description": "The urban art weekend tip is the Backpiece exhibition tomorrow, cureated by the Klub7 collective! About 20 urban artists will pay homage to the graffiti backpiece jeans jackets at one big party...", "title": "Backpiece Exhibition Berlin", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/backpiece-exhibition-berlin/" }, { "date": "2010-12-07", "description": "A few weeks ago, fine artist Kelsey Brookes was in Berlin for the preparations of his recent exhibition. The interview-magazine “Freunde von Freunden” met him in Kreuzberg and did a nice interview!", "title": "Kelsey Brookes Interview in Berlin", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/interview-kelsey-brookes-berlin/" }, { "date": "2010-11-24", "description": "Light art, light writing, light drawing or light graffiti - the labels are versatile but in the end they describe one-shot time bulb exposure photography with light motions in front of the camera...", "title": "Light Art Performance Photography", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/light-art-performance-photography/" }, { "date": "2010-11-10", "description": "The Amateur Magazine is another urban art-inspired magazine driven by Swiss artist, published twice a year and available around the world. It’s about urban art, artist, fashion and places, so check this out!", "title": "Urban Art Mag: Amateur Magazine", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-art-amateur-magazine/" }, { "date": "2010-11-02", "description": "Some weeks ago, London-based stencil artist FinDAC invited me to visit his studio. I took some photos and recently found some time to upload them. Here is what I saw...", "title": "Artist Studio: FinDAC in London", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/artist-studio-findac-london/" }, { "date": "2010-09-29", "description": "This fall, “The Original Fat Cap Chair” by industrial designer Sander van Heukelom will be ready to buy. As its name suggest, it’s a handmade fiber glass chair formed as a fat cap nozzle...", "title": "Fat Cap Chair - Graffiti Design", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/fat-cap-chair-graffiti-design/" }, { "date": "2010-09-27", "description": "Michael Kadaz makes money by copying other artists work. He takes motives of artworks by international successful urban artists and gives them a new background. That’s it. No attribution, no credits, nothing...", "title": "Without Attribution: Michael Kadaz Stencil Art", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/attribution-stencil-art-michael-kadaz/" }, { "date": "2010-09-19", "description": "After books, mags, shoes, prints and paintings, famous urban artist Dave the Chimp did something new: He designed socks! They are available now...", "title": "Dave the Chimp Socks", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/dave-the-chimp-socks/" }, { "date": "2010-08-24", "description": "An interesting no budget festival with live music, art and philosophy will take place in Detroit at the end of September. Therefore a whole van should be filled with creative cardboard artworks...", "title": "Call for Cardboard Art", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/cardboard-art/" }, { "date": "2010-08-23", "description": "Redspective presents posters and prints by the two typography artists and graphic designers Otto Baum and Sven Neitzel. Really nice works, take a look!", "title": "Great Typography Posters", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/typography-posters/" }, { "date": "2010-07-25", "description": "Writing this, my Urban Art Photo Contest finishes with about 500 submitted photos by about 200 people. The five winning shots will be announced in the next days... ", "title": "Urban Art Photo Contest Finished!", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-art-photo-contest-finished/" }, { "date": "2010-06-11", "description": "Today the FIFA world cup will start with an big opening ceremony in South Africa. To celebrate this first football world championship under African soil, 33 interesting artworks were created...", "title": "FIFA World Cup Paintings - South Africa 2010", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/world-cup-paintings-south-africa/" }, { "date": "2010-05-31", "description": "Have you already heard about that new street art guide app for the iPhone, called “All City”? Its aim is to collect interesting street art spot around the world...", "title": "Street Art iPhone App", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/street-art-iphone-app/" }, { "date": "2010-05-26", "description": "Rhett Dashwood seems to be really bored. In seven months of painstaking work, the creative director finished his “Google Maps Typography” alphabet. Wow!", "title": "Landform Typography", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/landform-typography/" }, { "date": "2010-05-25", "description": "You are a fan of street artist Banksy, Damien Hirst or Ron English? Then watch out now! Mike Leavitt created some freaky action figures of famous modern artists...", "title": "Action Figures: Banksy, Hirst \u0026 Ron English!", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/banksy-hirst-ron-english-action-figures/" }, { "date": "2010-05-25", "description": "Do you know that fantastic typographic wood design by the british graphic design company Why not Associates from 2009? Typography friends and nature lovers should read carefully! ", "title": "Wood Typography: Read the Trees!", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/wood-typography-design/" }, { "date": "2010-05-17", "description": "The “Art Stars” project is a showcase of Europe’s most exciting young artistic talents, including some of the most famous urban artists like Daniel Tagno, Herakut, L’Atlas and others...", "title": "Art Stars - Europe’s Top Artists!", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/art-stars-europe-top-artistic-talents/" }, { "date": "2010-03-29", "description": "“Alex Diamond is unseizable as a person and difficult to categorize as an artist, he is more fantasy than reality” and this is his art book...", "title": "Great Art Book: Being Alex Diamond", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/being-alex-diamond-art-book/" }, { "date": "2010-02-22", "description": "All fans of the great Teddy Troops by famous graffiti and street artist Flying Förtress should read the next lines very carefully! There are limited prints out there...", "title": "Limited Artworks by Flying Förtress?", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/flying-fortress-limited-art-edition/" }, { "date": "2010-02-16", "description": "Two days ago, Mr. Brainwash’s so called “art show” in New York opened its doors. He is one of the most controversial people in the international street art scene...", "title": "Mr. Brainwash - Terrible Artist or Worst Artist ever?", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/mr-brainwash-terrible-artist-or-worst-artist-ever/" }, { "date": "2010-02-04", "description": "Stefan Strumbel is one of Germany’s most popular pop artists. His crazy cuckoo clocks are well-known around the globe. Yesterday, the New York Times published an article about him...", "title": "Stefan Strumbel - The Clockmaker’s Retreat", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/stefan-strumbel-the-clockmakers-retreat/" }, { "date": "2010-02-02", "description": "Today I relaunched Urban Artcore. The new simple, clean and modern style should help you to find the interesting posts in a faster way. Hope you like it!?", "title": "Urban Artcore Redesigned!", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-artcore-redesigned/" }, { "date": "2010-01-13", "description": "Derick Childress and his friend did a nice light-writing marriage-proposal at the end of the last year. They used 3 million candlepower spotlights! Take a look...", "title": "Giant Light-Writing Marriage-Proposal!", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/giant-light-writing-marriage-proposal/" }, { "date": "2010-01-03", "description": "Job and Roel Wouters are very creative brothers. Both developed the spray-painting machine “Rainbow Gun” and created this inspiring typography video...", "title": "Typography: Letman’s Alphabet", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/typography-letmans-alphabet/" }, { "date": "2009-12-17", "description": "The ninth issue of the typography magazine Slanted presents a lot of articles about the modern use of stencil typography! If you’re interested, take a look...", "title": "Slanted #9 – Stencil \u0026 Type Mag", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/slanted-9-stencil-type-mag/" }, { "date": "2009-11-25", "description": "Also this year, internationally known British street artist Dave the Chimp makes his “Lucky Dip” art sale. Read on, if you want to know, what you could get and why it’s so interesting...", "title": "Dave The Chimp’s Lucky Dip", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/dave-the-chimps-lucky-dip/" }, { "date": "2009-11-17", "description": "The paper artworks by American artist Karen O’Leary are really amazing! By removing the unnecessary, she created fantastic cut-outs of NY, London and Paris...", "title": "Map Cuts - Paper Art", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/map-cuts-paper-art/" }, { "date": "2009-11-11", "description": "Industrial design meets typography - I love typography and I like typography-inspired design. Dutch designer Pieter de Leeuw recently created a great bookshelf out of letters...", "title": "Letters Designer Bookshelf", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/letters-bookshelf-by-pieter-de-leeuw/" }, { "date": "2009-11-05", "description": "Stephen Wiltshire is incredible! The autistic British artist is able to draw whole skyline and urban scenes completely from memory! Take a look at his recent artwork...", "title": "Manhattan Skyline Drawing", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/manhattan-skyline-drawing-stephen-wiltshire/" }, { "date": "2009-11-04", "description": "Crack Mag, that’s high level urban culture and lifestyle. On about 180 pages, the “Crack For Your Eyes” crew presents street artists, photographers and musicians...", "title": "Crack Mag #02 - Urban Magazine", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/crack-mag-02-urban-magazine/" }, { "date": "2009-10-28", "description": "It’s very interesting to see, how multi-national fashion labels use street art and graffiti for their advert campaigns. Also jeans fabricator Levi’s goes with the trend...", "title": "Levi’s \u0026 Urban Art", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/levis-urban-art/" }, { "date": "2009-09-30", "description": "For Bill Guffey, Google Street View is an instrument - he uses the reality photos s references for his landscape artworks. You are interested? Take a look!", "title": "Google Street View Paintings", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/google-street-view-paintings/" }, { "date": "2009-08-22", "description": "With typography you can do a lot of great things. A few days ago Mark A. Webber finishes his giant typographic, linocut map of Paris. It’s amazing...", "title": "Linocut, Typography, Paris", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/linocut-typography-paris/" }, { "date": "2009-08-15", "description": "It seems, that graffiti influenced a lot of designers - It's fantastic on what ideas they strike today. I show you some of the most interesting and fresh, graffiti-inspired interior designs!", "title": "Graffiti-inspired Design", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/graffiti-inspired-design/" }, { "date": "2009-08-03", "description": "You love typographically influenced artworks and need some inspiration? Then you should take a look at this typography poster fundus - It is a collection of artworks by about 350 designers and artists from all over the world!", "title": "Typography Poster Inspiration", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/typography-poster-inspiration/" } ], "rss": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-design/index.xml", "taxonomy": "categories", "title": "Urban Design", "url": "https://www.urbanartcore.com/urban-design/", "years": { "2009": 11, "2010": 23, "2011": 16, "2012": 20 } }