Orticanoodles

Italian graffiti artists Alita and Wally create incredible pop-art-inspired stencil pieces like these. Via Changethethought.

Oli-B

Amazing stuff by Oli-B, via Hard Feelings.

L'ATLAS

Great interview and showcase of work by L'ATLAS at Typo-Graphical.

Saber Strikes Back

After being unjustly crucified by Fox News for his work incorporating the American flag, Saber issues his public (and artistic) retort.

Coney Island's Wonderful Weirdness

On my recent visit to NYC, I was reminded of the amazing handmade vernacular that is prevalent throughout what is this modern city, especially in places like the quickly-disappearing Coney Island. From reclaimed materials to hand-painted signs to graffiti and well-worn, antique textures, Coney Island is a treasure-trove of handmade design from times past. While it may have seen better days, and may even cease to exist in the near future, there are thankfully a number of photographers, both amateur and professional, documenting the weirdness that is Coney Island. Check out a few of such artists here.

Remed

Enjoy the fantastical abstract shapes, colors and hand-painted type of French graffiti-slash-canvas artist Remed.

Retna

LA artist Retna describes his work as merging "Photography with graffiti style and paint, time with color, couture with street culture, the spiritual with the sensual, and fluidity with grit". I'm enjoying the merging of traditional calligraphic writing and modern handstyle.

Shoe

Amsterdam graffiti artist/designer Niels "Shoe" Meulman creates some of the most beautiful calligraphy and lettering I've ever seen.

RIPO

NY graffiti artist RIPO is killing it with amazing type as well as some original placement choices...I love the retro hand-painted sign style. Via Fecal Face.

Modern-Day Futurism

LA artist Augustine Kofie, aka Kofie’One, has an amazingly ordered, geometric style. My theory is that he was raised by a Futurist architect and a graffiti writer. And they all watched Blade Runner together every day.

Street Art with a Conscience.

Photographer/street artist JR transforms his photography into enormous posters and makes open space photo galleries out of our streets. You may have seen his work pasted onto the Tate Modern in London, or on a wall in your neighborhood if you're lucky.

But his thought process isn't limited to simply pasting big photos on walls, each photo tells a story and interacts with the human population around its' installation to provoke thought and hopefully, change. His work has recently led him to Africa to shoot women in post-conflict zones like Sierra-leone and Liberia, and is currently taking him to India and Asia to do the same.

One More Thing to Love in Vancouver

I found the painting and collage of Ryan Buchnea, aka Fontski, while researching the work of fellow Vancouver artist Ben Tour (featured below). Combining printed type, graf style writing, photography, illustration and paint, his work is sure to be seen in a gallery near you.

Taking it From the Streets

London artist Sickboy has officially taken his art from the street to the gallery, exhibiting his work for the first time in a gallery (actually in a house set up within a warehouse) with his Stay Free exhibition last week.