Tag Archives: guerrilla

Amsterdam Dresses Up

We’d like to share some pictures of Liesbet Bussche’s graduation project at the Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam. The Belgian jewelry designer has transformed…

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DIY Guerilla City Advertising

Cities often try to find solutions against the excess of advertising in public space. Shop owners and entrepreneurs are forbidden to have light signs or banners that affect…

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Make Art, Not Trash

In their battle for salary increase, the garbage men of the city of Amsterdam decided to strike in May. Their actions led to an entire city full of…

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Robot-Printed Facades

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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Book Review: Tokyo Blues

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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The IKEA Infiltration

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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Book Review: Installations By Architects

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…

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Urban Intervention: Sealing The City

Wonder how to make easy DIY furniture for the urban realm? The French artist Cedric Bernadotte came up with this interventions made from stretch…

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Encastrable: Guerrilla Art in Megastores

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…

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Guerrilla Gardening in Newspaper Boxes

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…

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Lots of Policemen, Few People


Rebel Art
and Wooster Collective report about the latest project of Madrid-based street art collective Luzinterruptus. Goal of this guerrilla project in the…

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The Pop-Down City

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…

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Nottingham’s Blind Spots

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…

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Guerrilla Bicycle Lanes

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

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The Battle of the Urban Space

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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