Urban Art Blog

Adam Ladd of Ladd Design showcases the wins and fails in the world of branding with the insights of his 5 year old daughter.

Come face-to-face with authors past and present with “Written Portraits” – an advertising campaign taking its inspiration from the spate of artistic book carving over the past few years. As part of a promotional project ages of autobiographical books were carved in the shape of the author’s face. The Van Wantern Etcetera agency began the [...]

Like Zombies? Like Art? Like Zombie Art? Good…     See more awesome portraits by the Peruvian designer Andre De Freitas at AndreFreitas.com.

Check out what Israeli designer Idan Friedman has managed to achieve with a 3D printer. He’s created a series of portraits embossed into disposable aluminium food trays.  The collection features “ordinary people” all of whom are Friedman’s friends and acquaintances. So… does this spell an end-time for hand crafted design in the future? See more [...]

Igor Eskinja has a fascinating view of the world, a Croatian installation artist with a penchant for plucking the familiar from the 2D world and transferring it to the 3D world. His work is illusory and ephemeral and consist of little more than wire, tape, paint and a few printed backgrounds. At the end of [...]

Here’s a real clever piece of graphic art, an interactive map of the birth and movement of music genres across the world. See it in action here.

Why? Why not? How? Beads. Price? Sold out. Are these real skulls, I mean, did they used to have brains in them? Yep. I’m not sure if I’d have wanted one of these Huichol artisan skulls (especially at those prices) but they are dead pretty :p If you’re desperate to get one you’re better off [...]

Papercraft master Matt Nicholson offers a selection of papercraft designs including a real working Pinhole Leica Camera! Based in London/Herts, Matt has been exhibiting across the capital throughout 2011, particularly wowing the crowds with his fully functional papercraft Pinhole Camera. If you fancy your own you can download the printable cut-out plans for £3 here. [...]

If you’ve ever thought that great art should leap out towards you then you’ll probably enjoy Yuki Matsueda‘s 3D work. Born in Japan and with a Phd in design, Yuki has exhibited across Asia and the USA.

I’m old enough to remember the Rubik’s Cube craze, within a year you could buy a cheap copy with a free cheat booklet for 50 pence at any boot fair. On the other hand Pete Fecteau took his passion for the cube to a whole new level. He spent a year creating this phenomenal mural [...]