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Whimsical Sky Art by Thomas Lamadieu

April 18th, 2013 by Jolita | No Comments | Filed in Design

French artist Thomas Lamadieu, also know as Roots Art, must really love looking at the sky, but for different reasons than you might think. Every time he looks up, Thomas sees a potential canvas where the building rooftops frame the sky. He photographs it and uses the odd sky shapes to create whimsical line drawings.

“My artistic aim is to show a different perception of urban architecture and the everyday environment around us, what we can construct with a boundless imagination,” says Thomas. Aren’t you just gonna see these creatures now every time you look up?

Website: tlamadieu.wix.com via: neatorama

Whimsical Sky Art by Thomas Lamadieu originally appeared on Bored Panda on April 18, 2013.

Tags: Architecture, Art, boredpanda, buildings, drawing, full-page, imagination, Latest Posts, line drawings, no-ads, photograpgy, sky, SkyArt, Thomas Lamadieu, urban, urban art

Whimsical Sky Art by Thomas Lamadieu

April 18th, 2013 by Jolita | No Comments | Filed in Design

Website: tlamadieu.wix.com via: neatorama

Whimsical Sky Art by Thomas Lamadieu originally appeared on Bored Panda on April 18, 2013.

Tags: Architecture, Art, boredpanda, buildings, drawing, full-page, imagination, Latest Posts, no-ads, sky, Thomas Lamadieu, urban, urban art

Mind-Blowing Architectural Density in Hong Kong

April 2nd, 2013 by Lina | No Comments | Filed in Design

With seven million people, Hong Kong is the 4th most densely populated places in the world. However, plain numbers never tell the full story. In his ‘Architecture of Density’ photo series, German photographer Michael Wolf explores the jaw-dropping urban landscapes of Hong Kong. He rids his pictures of any context, such above or the earth below, and rarely includes people, either. The images are large scale flat captions of buildings which appear to be infinite and haunting.

First prize winner in the World Press Photo competition in 2005 and 2010, Michael moved from Germany to Hong Kong back in 1994 and spent 8 years working for Stern Magazine as a contracted photographer. As he started working on his own projects since 2001, many of them proved to be successful enough to be released as books. His Architecture of Density, also available for purchase, is one out of 13 to date.

Michael’s main focus has always been life in mega cities, capturing the urban beauty of the “architecture and the vernacular culture of metropolises,” as explained in his statement. The distinctive feature of Michael’s work is said to be his ability to “find the symbolic value in those seemingly insignificant details that so often go unnoticed”.

Be sure to visit Michael’s website for more!

Website: photomichaelwolf.com via: twistedsifter

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Tags: Architecture, Architecture of Density, blocks of flats, boredpanda, Featured, full-page, hong kong, Latest Posts, Michael Wolf, photography, urban, urban landscapes, urban photography

20 Clever Examples of Interactive Street Art

July 24th, 2012 by Tomas | No Comments | Filed in Design

Fighting boredom isn’t an easy task, but a dose of creative street art can alleviate the symptoms! Inspired by Modern Met’s 10 Interactive Street Art Works That Rocked, we decided to add a couple of our own picks to the list.

But before you start scrolling down the list, here’s a list of street art posts we had earlier:

70 Amazing Examples of Street Art

The 5 Most Talented 3D Sidewalk Artists

80 Beautiful Street Crimes done by BANKSY

15 Creative Street Art Ideas from OakoAk

Now that you’ve opened them somewhere in a new tab, here’s 20 of our favorite interactive street art examples.

Dreams

By: color me katie

Street Art In Malaysia

By: Ernest Zacharevich

Ice Age

By: Edgar Mueller

Climb Imaginary Stairs

By: Panya Clark Espinal

World’s Largest 3D Street Painting

By: Joe Hill

Before I Die

By: Candy Chang

3D Pedestal Street Art

By: e1000

Abyss

By: unknown

Super Mario Bros.

By: A team of students at the Columbus College of Art & Design

Swimming Pool

By: Julian Beever

Mind Your Step

By: Eric Johansson

Real Life Monopoly

By: Bored

Shark Attack

By: Edgar Mueller

Domino: Paper Tape On Wall

By: Aakash Nihalani

White River Rafting

By: Julian Beever

Shadows

By: color me katie

20 Clever Examples of Interactive Street Art originally appeared on Bored Panda on July 24, 2012.

Tags: Art, boredpanda, graffiti, interactive, interactive art, interactive street art, Latest Posts, street art, urban, urban art

70 Amazing Examples of Street Art

March 7th, 2012 by Tomas | No Comments | Filed in Design

The attitude that art should be seen only in galleries is on its way out. This huge collection of creative street art will show you that city is probably the best canvas!

Every wall, fence or column could be turned into an art piece. It brings smiles and raises eyebrows. It is closer to people than the best painting or installation shown in a art gallery.

However, at the same time, bad street art can ruin a very nice downtown building making all neighborhoods seem run-down and uninviting. That’s why there will always be a debate whether it’s art or vandalism.

Now take a look at these 70 creative examples of street art. How can something so beautiful and creative be a crime?

70 Amazing Examples of Street Art originally appeared on Bored Panda on March 7, 2012.

Tags: Art, banksy, boredpanda, creative street art, graffiti, graffiti art, Latest Posts, stencil, street art, urban, urban art

The Living Wall by Nikita Nomerz

February 29th, 2012 by Tomas | No Comments | Filed in Design

Russian street artist Nikita Nomerz travels around various cities in his homeland to find abandoned structures and bring them back to life. By adding eyes and facial features he makes old buildings laugh, smile, scream or just look at the passersby with their big window eyes.

Nomerz started back in school with classic hip hop graffiti but later became more interested in street art and began all sorts of experiments. The artist says that he likes to play with space and objects and is inspired by the place itself. Nomerz loves watching the city and finding an interesting point.

He usually doesn’t spend much time to create one work – sometimes less than an hour. But he says that it all depends on the size of the object and his ideas.

Website: nomerz.blogspot.com

The Big Brother in Nizhniy Novgorod

The Tower Man in Perm

Open Your Eyes in Irkutsk

The Face in Perm

Underground Dweller in Nizhniy Novgorod

Watcher Man in Krasnoyarsk

The Eyes of the City in Nizhniy Novgorod

Toothyman in Ekaterinburg

Riverman in Novosibirsk

The Fire in the Eyes in Nizhniy Novgorod

The Living Wall by Nikita Nomerz originally appeared on Bored Panda on February 29, 2012.

Tags: abandoned places, abandoned structures, Art, boredpanda, Latest Posts, Nikita Nomerz, Nomerz, Russian street art, street art, urban, urban art

Artificial Urban Glaciers in Enschede

February 28th, 2012 by Tomas | No Comments | Filed in Design

Cities often like to hide natural streams with concrete instead of showing their natural beauty. However, the City of Enschede in Netherlands together with Buro Sent En Co decided to do the opposite. To the delight of Enschede residents, the small stream, which gives its name to the Roombeek street and has in the past flowed underground, has been restored and brought up to the surface again.

“Roombeek is a commercial street and also the urban core of the district. Now the water is part of the urban environment and has become the district’s new central point.”

“Its asymmetrical design, which widens and narrows along the street, accentuates its different spatial features. The base of the stream is treated with a rough structure that reduces the flowing speed of the water and creates a constant reflective pattern on the water surface. A distinctive composition of sharp edged stepping stones refers to the randomness of natural processes and is also a reference to the fireworks explosion.”

Website: www.santenco.nl

Artificial Urban Glaciers in Enschede originally appeared on Bored Panda on February 28, 2012.

Tags: Architecture, boredpanda, brook, Buro Sant en Co, Enschede, glaciers, Latest Posts, Roombeek, Roombeek brook, street art, urban

Miniature Buildings: Street Art by EVOL

May 23rd, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

German street artist EVOL transforms banal urban surfaces into miniature lifelike buildings. He is like an urban planner, but unlike the others, he creates a city within the city.

The artist uses complicated stencils to quickly transform powerboxes, and other worn urban surfaces into miniature apartment buildings or other structures. By drawing tiny balconies and satellite dishes onto the side of an electrical box, he is able to turn it into a realistic tiny skyscraper.

EVOL’s works are so precise that, when you’re glancing at photographs, it sometimes might be hard to tell that you’re not looking at pictures of real buildings.

The artist creates miniature buildings within different cities and has even been commissioned to do installations in galleries, and while the police might not agree with this street art project, they probably enjoy the end result.

Websites: evoltaste.com | flickr

Miniature Buildings: Street Art by EVOL originally appeared on Bored Panda on May 23, 2011.

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Tags: Architecture, Art, boredpanda, EVOL, graffiti, illusion, Latest Posts, miniature, miniature buildings, stencil, street art, urban, urban art

Portraits Carved in Walls by Alexandre Farto

May 4th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

It is a never ending discussion whether it’s street art or street crime, but no matter how severe the punishment could be (remember the story about 20-year-old Thomas Dolan and Thomas Whittaker, 18, who were given 15 and 12 month prison sentences respectively after admitting painting graffiti on trains and railways stations at Manchester Crown Court) the artists continue to do their thing.

We already had a lot of street art here on BoredPanda (OakoAk, Banksy, Julian Beever, Slinkachu, Robin Rhode), and today we have another incredibly talented artist for you – Alexandre Farto. Using abandoned and depleted buildings as his canvas, Alexandre creates fascinating large scale portraits by carefully scratching and chipping plasters out of walls.

Alexandre Farto, better known as Vhils, is a Portuguese street artist based in London. Born in 1987, he gained prominence when his work of a face carved into a wall appeared alongside a picture by street artist Banksy at the Cans Festival in London in 2008. A photograph of him creating the work appeared on the front page of The Times. He was later given space to show his work by Banksy’s agent, Steve Lazarides. Several of his works were featured in Outsiders, a collection of street art published by Century, 2008.^[1]

Website: alexandrefarto.com