Space Invaders

For a couple of years, Invader is working on a project with the mission to "invade" cities all over the world, with characters inspired by first-generation arcade games, and especially the now classic Space Invaders.
His street art is now spread over 35 cities around the world.
I've seen some Invaders around Adelaide lately but I learned from his website that those are probably a kind of homage to his work but they weren't made by him.

As much as I love his 'outdoor' art, I think Invader 'indoor' art is just as fantastic. Have a look:






I have to admit I've never played Space Invaders but there is something terribly cute and addictive in these pixelized creatures. Even more so is the fact that I can't resist happy art, and these are awesome example.
Who wouldn't smile while looking at one of those?

Supakitch & Koralie

This video documenting the creative process of an amazing wall painting by French street artists Supakitch and Koralie, left me in awe.

While most of their art can be found in urban spaces, this painting has migrated inside to the serene gallery walls of the Museum of World Culture in Sweden. It is so fantastic that, after watching the video for a couple of times, I was completely captured by Supakitch & Koralie's magical, imaginary, Japanese Manga influenced world.


For more: check out this interesting interview with Supakitch & Koralie on Format Magazine


Video and photography by Damien Elroy Vignaux (more on his flickr)
Music by D*L*i*d


Via Creature Comfort

PicTurin Mural Art Festival

No one can deny that street art becomes more and more a legitimate art form.
The PicTurin festival is taking this statement to the next level, being the first international event celebrating mural art.
The festival took place last October in Turin, Italy, with an impressive line up of artists that, armed with spray cans, painted a total of over 3,500 square meters of wall, legally.

Turin had showed itself to be a very open and creative city, what makes it a very interesting place to visit. As for the festival, as it is it's first go, what's ahead is still uncertain. I do hope to see it growing and spreading over more cities around the world, enabling people to be exposed to street art as a positive and inspiring art form rather than a vandalism act.

Do you enjoy street art? Do you think legitimating it as in the PicTurin, will enable it to grow or will change its concept altogether?

More:
An interesting read about Graffiti in the Galleries
More great photos from the festival on the PicTurin Flickr page.


Via DesignTaxi and MTN-World

Typography Street Art by Aske

Beautiful typography street art by Russian artist, Aske.
I love his graphic approach, even when choosing his professional name:

“I’d been thinking about what name to choose for quite a long time before picking up this one. I liked the combination of letters and their shapes,” he explains. “Since graffiti is all about letters and writing your name, I started experimenting with letterforms as soon as I got involved in graf.”

Read more on Eske and his art on Design Bureau



Via Pitch Design Union

The RedBall Project in Taipei

I first heard about the RedBall Project from Mandy of 16 House (which is one of my favorite online-spots at the moment. Check it out if you haven't yet!) and was immediately blown away.
Street Art is one of the art forms I especially fond of. May it be graffiti, community projects (as in the previous post) or other interesting ideas, The act of putting your art in the streets and make it approachable and on top of that, touchable, is something I find amazing.

The RedBall Project is the brainchild of artist Kurt Perschke who bounce around the world with a 15-foot inflatable red ball.
The global art project exists as a series of temporary installations in a city over a few weeks. The work has already taken place at Syndey, Barcelona, Chicago, Korea, and England among others.

The last RedBall video comes from the ball's visit in Taipei. Have a look.

I hold some special feelings for Taipei, a city I visited many years ago for couple of weeks and extremely enjoyed, so it was a double joy to watch the video. I recognized many of the nooks and crannies the RedBall squeezed into and couldn't stop smiling at the reactions of the passersby. I can't decide what amuses me more - The people who response to the RedBall existence or the ones who simply ignore it as if it was an everyday, ordinary object that is a part of their reality.
Either way, this video and the whole RedBall project is a pure joy. I look forward to his new adventures around the world.



Photos by Chang Hsin Yeh, Yu-Cheng Hsiao (Click the photos for futher info)

Rainbow Goodness

This amazing street art/community project in Favela Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro made happy today.

The project is a collaboration between Favela Painting and Let's Color Project that started as an initiative by Haas&Hahn, the artistic duo Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn.

Read more about the project on Let's Color Project website.


Via Oh Joy!

Einstein on a Bicycle

Lately, wherever you go around Adelaide, you bump into Einstein and his bike.

I have no idea who's behind this, but it sure put a smile on my face whenever, wherever I spot him again.

The old, the new & the in between

Can't get enough of this photo. The contradictions between old and new, traditional and modern, bright colors and dark browns are stunning.

The amazing colorful alley is on Albion Place in the southern heart of Sydney's CBD. It has been transformed into an open air art gallery as part of the City of Sydney's sixth annual Art & About festival back in 2007.

The grey concrete walls have been painted to reflect the vibrancy of the area and turned it into a  juxtaposition of Architecture.

I would love to see such as initiative in Adelaide! So cheerful!
People of the SALA Festival - please give us some street art!



Photograph and post title by loveroni