Yarn Bombing: Colorful Street Art & Crochet Graffiti

For two years now, I’m following the creative development of Italian street artist and yarn-bomber Moneyless and I have to say, I really love to the the progress his artwork’s evolution. Whereas the first artworks where simple plain geometrically yarn-patterns on walls, his latest works include more complex, three-dimensional rope structures wafting in the air as well as pretty nice geometrically murals and prints… For Fame Festival 2012, he recently brought together samples of all his skills. Documented by some videographers, Moneyless scratched, screen-printed, painted and stretched ropes in the small Italian city of Grottaglie! ...

Remember the yarn-bombed Wall Street Bull? Now, Polish street artist Olek struck again when she covered the almost 9 meters tall memorial statue of Albert Einstein at the National Academy of Science in Washington DC! Unfortunately, the city cleaned the yarn-bombed Einstein within hours… Olek says Einstein, for her, was an easy choice since he was such a creative thinker himself. “I thought he might have a sense of humor about it,” she says. […] Presumably this kind of thing is par for the course when you’re a guerrilla yarn-bomber. (Washingtonian) ...

Olek is an crochet artist. The New York-based Pole started to crochet things for friends not long ago, went on to crochet urban environment (one of the most popular one is the purple Wall Street Bull) and since then became that famous, museums are offering to buy her entire installations! And although some would describe her works as grandma-style, there’s a certain idea behind the very conceptual urban crochet artworks, as she pointed out in the accidental interview Global Street Art did with Olek a few days ago… ...

Spanish urban artist Spidertag who is quite well-known in Europe for his yarn bombing artworks (he calls them spider tags) just spent the last days in abandoned buildings in Porto, Portugal and of course created some new stuff using nothing more than a few nails, a hammer and some yarn! It’s all about nails, yarn, geometry, abstraction and streets. (Spidertag) Spidertag got quite popular in Berlin, when he visited the city for several weeks back in 2011. Among other things he created together with yarn artists Moneyless and Hottea that one spot for a well-known sports equipment manufacturer… ...

Several weeks ago, a well-known manufacturer of sports equipment invited four yarn-addicted urban artists to Berlin for the making of a new commercial spot. Nevertheless it seems that Moneyless, Hottea, Spidertag and Aimee Dymond had some fun bombing the city with their thread-art which was mainly created in Kreuzberg! Unfortunately I had no time to take some photos of the finished street artworks… While watching please keep in mind that this is some kind of viral marketing - They got paid to wear those clothes! ...

It’s urban art link-tip Wednesday again, a for that reason I have some interesting street art and graffiti news for you to check out, including the upcoming fund-raiser event for King Robbo, great yarn lettering from Toronto, urban Bratwurst hacking from Germany and a new traffic sign for London… It’s already slightly older, but I just found that crazy yarn lettering by Sean Martindale in my feed reader.. Real Scenes is a series of short films which explores the musical, cultural and creative climate within electronic music’s key destinations like Bristol, Detroit or next Berlin. ...

I just stumbled upon new artworks by Italian street artist Teo Pirisi aka Moneyless from Strasbourg and have to say that I like his experimental street installations. Moneyless creates the next level of what the Spanish La Pluma Eléctri*k street art crew calls Spider Tags: Two and three dimensional abstract installations made of cotton threads combined with geometrically paintings. The results are often impressing, especially when the installations look like wafting through the air… ...

Some month ago I already wrote about about the Spanish street art crew La Pluma Eléctri*k - Back then, they created a lot of interesting QR code paste-ups! Today they sent me new info about and some photos of their latest urban art project, which is called “Spider Tags”… “Spider Tags” are woollen artworks, often made of some nails and just a cotton thread, which makes it possible to create strict line and in that way complex geometrically shapes. ...