Before, we already introduced the Nike Chalkbot used to add supporting and commercial texts to the streets during the Tour de France. Here’s a new public domain printing installation,…
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Helsinki-based photographer Nurri Kim recently released the first Do Projects book ‘Tokyo Blues’ in collaboration with former Tokyo-resident Adam Greenfield. The publication,…
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Yesterday, I discussed the emerging social unrest in Hamburg caused by the current neoliberal city-branding campaign and the ongoing policy focus on the creative class instead taking…
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This year we’ve often been writing about all sorts of installations made by designers, by architects, by artists, or cross-discipline collectives, and even by ourselves. The installations we chose to…
Wonder how to make easy DIY furniture for the urban realm? The French artist Cedric Bernadotte came up with this interventions made from stretch…
Are highly commercial megastores and supermalls the new domains of guerrilla artists?
Encastrable is an interesting urban project intiated by Paul Souviron and Antoine Lejolivet of the…
Toronto-based street artist Posterchild has been turning unused newspaper boxes in his city into planters. Very nice work. He explains:
“I’ve always been amazed by the…
Rebel Art and Wooster Collective report about the latest project of Madrid-based street art collective Luzinterruptus. Goal of this guerrilla project in the…
The ‘Pop-Down Project’ is a funny urban movement from France that brings pop-up blocking to real-life advertising and other annoying elements you find on the street. Through a…
Yesterday I realised how many articles on this blog apparently deal with the topic of urban guerrilla movements. This is another interesting one that makes people aware of privacy infringement…
Living in bike city Amsterdam I can hardly imagine how it is to fight for bicycle lanes in your city. In Toronto a group called the Urban Repair…
Who should be responsible for the city’s lay-out? The ones who pay for it, or the ones with the creativity and capacity to make it look good? Well, a…
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Yesterday we wrote about a two great urban games: ‘Capture the Flag’ in Toronto and ‘Idiotarod’, taking place in many American cities. We found out about another one, which is…
After the sudden rise and immediate fall of the flash mob, a more profound phenomenon in urban areas has set its roots: urban gaming. The urban experience games…
Chicago-based brand marketing studio Alt Terrain is specialised is new collaborative marketing campaigns. They have designed a live mobile billboard to bring outdoor advertising to life. The
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