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10/17/2014

08/29/2014

Street art "opens up your peripheral vision, so you start to notice things you didn’t before. You start to tap into a city’s underbelly, its soul.” -Marc Schiller

Find out which cities are considered the best for street art here: http://www.travelandleisure.com/slideshows/the-best-cities-for-street-art

Where to Go: Some of L.A.’s best spotting grounds are in La Brea (just east of Beverly Hills). ...

08/29/2014

OakOak uses creative and humorous street art to engage France's city dwellers.

Take a look at the photo gallery Colossal: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/07/oakoak-street-interventions/

Based in the old industrial town of St. Etienne, France, street artist oakoak (previously) relies on a keen sense of observation to create his humorous interventions on walls, streets, and sidewalks. Cracks and crumbling infrastructure become the backdrop for superheroes and othe

08/28/2014

Did you have a great time at Open Streets TO last weekend? Or did you sleep in and miss the event? Don't fret, Open Streets TO is BACK on Sunday August 31st from 8am-Noon!

Check out the website for maps, event info and pics: http://www.openstreetsto.org/

08/28/2014

Can hoarding facilitate a chess game or bring greenery to the streetscape? NYC's Softwalks says YES!

Watch the video >> http://shar.es/11nnwa

Design Indaba | A better world through creativity | Bland Hoke and Howard Chambers explore how design can transform cities, making them more dynamic and turning them into real community assets.

08/27/2014

Marxist Nudist Taxidermy Club is up to some public art shenanigans! I spy absurdist advertisements on John, Beverley and Queen West!

Check out the Torontoist for the scoop:
http://torontoist.com/2014/08/vandalist-reality-alert/

BY: The Urban Sanity Initiative, a task force of the Marxist Nudist Taxidermy Club LOCATION: John Street and Richmond

08/27/2014

Take a peek at Stuart Reid's public art installation planned for Union Station. The murals are inspired by observing people while riding the TTC and "references the rhythm of the subway trains."

Read more about the project Urban Toronto:
http://www.urbantoronto.ca/news/2014/08/stuart-reids-union-station-art-encourges-ttc-riders-engage

Stuart Reid's Zones of Immersion, a glass artwork which will separate the two tracks at the TTC's Union Subway Station, is ready to be installed in Toronto's Downtown transit hub.

08/26/2014

Hey look! Shayne Dark's "Double Take" appears outside of Lifetime Developments' latest condo!

View more pictures at Urban Toronto:
http://www.urbantoronto.ca/news/2014/08/shayne-darks-double-take-public-art-installed-x2-condos

A major new piece of public art, Shayne Dark's 'Double Take', is now in place in front Great Gulf and Lifetime Developments' X2 Condos at Jarvis and Charles Streets in Toronto.

08/26/2014

TO's contemporary art is taking a trip to Warkworth Ontario! Catch the "art bus" and spend the day viewing satellite installations and performances.

Read more about "Sunday Drive presents Warkworth" at blogTO:
http://www.blogto.com/arts/2014/08/toronto_artists_want_to_drive_you_out_of_town/

08/24/2014

"To Park or Not to Park" is revamping NYC parking signage to end the parking confusion! >> toparkornottopark.com/about

To Park or Not to Park is a parking sign redesign and urban intervention project run by Nikki Sylianteng, who’s been hit with one too many parking tickets despite her best efforts and thinks there...

08/24/2014

If a building could make us less fat could mural art make us more happy? Read about healthy buildlings at ArchDaily:

http://www.archdaily.com/535703/can-buildings-make-us-healthier/

Since we spend most of our waking hours in buildings, shouldn't they be designed to encourage a healthy lifestyle? It turns out there are many ways in which architects can design spaces that encourage us to exercise as part of our daily routine. Likewise there are many design features that often dis…

08/21/2014

Thanks Gallery for drawing our attention to the playful street art of Daan Botlek!

Botlek's artwork interacts with the urban landscape. Check out the gallery at Colossal >> http://ow.ly/ApEvz

Street artist and illustrator Daan Botlek is based in Rotterdam, Netherlands and is known for his strange form of character-driven street art. His generally simplistic, site-specific figures often interact with the space around them, passing in and out of unseen dimensions, sheddin