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Needle-pointed 1980s NYC graffiti

A 1989 pillow done by SMOG’s mother for GHOST RIS with outlines made by SMOG.

Plates by Julien Cadou aka Earl

A 2014 and 2015 series of plates by French graphic designer and artist Julien Cadou aka Earl in search of imperfection. Images from: facebook.com/Jcearlcom, jcearl.com

Taped windows

Duisburg Central Railway Station, Germany. “But this is really not beautiful,” comments the woman sitting next to me in the train.

Parallel lines — Graffiti & Hardcore

In the end of the 1980s, New York hardcore saw a clear affluence of graffiti on covers, show flyers and band stickers. Who did these? This seemingly easy…

사람다

What does 사람다 have to do with Unity’s reel? A friend suggested that it could mean something abbreviated like  사람, 다 (people, all) – like the reel where everybody…

Burned holes as design device

Burned holes in kraft paper: This is what designer Lin Shaobin thought up to enable ventilation for the tea inside the packaging and to represent the tea’s drying…

Scratched windows of Berlin’s public transportation

I failed uncountable times in taking a photo of these. But Dominique Auerbacher’s photos are the proof that it is possible. In her series “Scratches” (2007–2009) she documented…

Neon installation Cleon Peterson X Lisa Schulte

This is not a lamp. This is a two piece art installation by Cleon Peterson and Lisa Schulte. Images: lisaschulteneonartist.com, lataco.com, instagram.com/theneonqueen

Korean tea packaging

Pen Name: Dee Lawdid — Shawn Kerri Part 3

“I never thought the rest of the world was looking,” Shawn Kerri told Grushkin in their interview in 1987. Actually, she had never imagined that her cartoons might…

Fruit bowl by Heinz Landes

“The use of the terms ‘beauty and function’ in one sentence ought to be prohibited.” says Heinz Landes, creator of this fruit bowl and one of the prominent…

A blanket with a story

The story? As simple as telling: Stuart Matz grew up with skateboarding and still loves the old graphics associated with it–especially Powell-Peralta’s. So he made this one of…

Etched windows by Michael Heizer

Certainly precursor: etched windows by American artist Michael Heizer, most of them from the early 1970s. No surprise really that one of the windows, now destroyed, was the…

Modernica streetwise continued

They don’t stop. Modernica still regularly cooperates with writers turned artists (in the conventional sense), skateboard brands or – a recent addition – tattoo artists. Here the collaborations…

Drinking with Neckface

One of a kind pieces by Neckface. Images: nastynecksdarkmarket.com

Knoll streetwise

Exclusive to one exhibition at Kyoto’s BABE Gallery in 2014: Saarinen Tulip Stools covered with classic A Bathing Ape camo fabric. The stool was part of the Original…

Miniature trees pose for Stephen Voss

Photographs by Stephen Voss for his upcoming book In Training portraying bonsai. Photographs from bonsaibook.co — copyright Stephen Voss

Death, fauna, love and humor — Shawn Kerri Part 2

[1] Drawing for artist The Pizz taken from Garage Magazine No. 18; [2]; [3] ; [4]; [5] Cartooning humans was certainly a mayor aspect of Shawn Kerri’s work,…

Traced

Photo from instagram.com/pushperiodical

Scratched surface

Berlin. Regional train.