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Surf Liquor …Santa Monica, Los Angeles

  

Dueling Taxis … Marunouchi, Tokyo

  

“You Are Beautiful!” Mural … Santa Monica, Los Angeles

 The “You are Beautiful” mural by artists Ruben Rojas and “ThisMeans Mar” next to the parking lot of Surf Liquor…

Artist FAILE’s Arcade Art Installation at Brooklyn Museum … New York City

Among the artworks at the landmark exhibition of the artist FAILE at the Brooklyn Museum this summer is a massive,…

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Beach Surf Scene Mural … Carlsbad, California

This beautifully evocative mural of a beach scene filled with surfers is by artist Shawn David Baker. The artwork was…

beach, beach scene, beach town, beaches, cali, california, carlsbad, contemporary art, murals, painting, public art, san diego county, shawn david baker, surf, surf culture, surfers, surfing, village of carlsbad

Boy in a Tree Mural by Artist Snyder … Carlsbad, California

We spotted this cute mural in the parking lot of a popular, local greasy-spoon Mexican food joint called Ceccy’s in…

artwork, boy in a tree, cali, california, carslbad, contemporary art, murals, painting, post-graffiti, public art, san diego, snyder, socal, street art

Japanese Summer “Hanabi”-Themed Billboard Ad For Coca-Cola … Tokyo

Japan has a long-established, globally recognized and highly-developed sense of aesthetics, especially when it come to design and graphic communications…

ads, advertising, aesthetics, ark hills, billboards, coca cola, coke, fireworks, hanabi, japan, japanese, posters, summer, tokyo

“Walk, Don’t Walk”by George Segal … Whitney Museum, NYC

Sculptural installation artwork by American artist George Segal at the inaugural exhibition of the new Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking…

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Hello Kitty Street Art by D-Face … Ura-Harajuku, Tokyo

American street artist DFace artwork often works with iconic pop-cultural imagery, often American retro-comic book styles and skeletal graphics. Here…

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Venice Beach Skate Park … Los Angeles

The Venice Beach skate park is a landmark like no other. It lies at the birthplace of the global phenomenon…

Street Art at “ABC No Rio” … Lower East Side, NYC

       

Surfers’ Classic Volkswagen Bus … Ventura, California        

          

Street Art by Brolga and UnCuttArt … Williamsburg, Brooklyn

brolga, brooklyn, brooklyn street art, contemporary art, New York, new your street art, nyc, uncutt, uncutt art, williamsburg

“Maximum Sensation” Skateboards by Artist Mounir Fatmi … Brooklyn Museum, New York

     

“Satan’s Bride” by Neckface … Shibuya, Tokyo

  

Space Invader … Shibuya, Tokyo

       

“Date Paintings” by On Kawara at Watari Museum … Omotesando, Tokyo

     

The Architecture & Design at “Log Road” … Daikanyama, Tokyo

There’s a new shopping-dining complex hear our temporary HQ in the Daikanyama neighborhood of Tokyo. It’s called Log Road. The…

architectural design, architecture, citroen truck, coffee truck, daikanyama, fred segal, japan, log road, logroad, tokyo, tokyo architecture

Good Morning, Tokyo!

     

Awesome 1970s Vintage Modular Plastic Shelves at GG HQ … Lower East Side, New York

     

“Tacos” Taco Truck Mural … Venice Beach, Los Angeles

  

“Ideal” Painting Jean-Michel Basquiat … Brooklyn Museum of Art

There are many definition of the word “ideal.” One of these is “an ultimate object or aim of endeavor.” Another…

artwork, basquiat, contemporary art, ideal, jean-michel basquiat, modern art, painting, pop art, post-modern art

Mural … Williamsburg, Brooklyn

  

Sony Handycam Graffiti Art … Lower East Side, New York City

Graffiti street art image of a retro-style Sony Handycam video camera on the rollershutter of an appliance repair shop on…

“Love is Stronger” Graffiti Message … Lower East Side, New York City

This construction-site hoarding has quickly become a canvas for graffiti and street art including the spray-painted message “Love is stronger”…

Roller-Shutter Mural at Ludlow Studios … Lower East Side, New York

  

Fresh Mural at Rag & Bone … Nolita, New York City

The latest, commissioned street art at the Rag & Bone JEAN concept store is this mural by artist Hisham Akira…

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Style … Surfer Espadrilles in Shop Window … Nolita, New York

We spotted these espadrilles with embroidered images of surfers in the display window at Cote A Coast, a small clothing…

boutique, clothes. shoes. kicks, cote a coast, display window, espadrilles, fashion, manhattan, New York, nolita, nyc, shopping, shops, soho, style, surf, surf culture, surfers, surfing

Epic Swans Street Art by Faith47 … Lower East Side, New York

Massive mural by the street artist “Faith47” on a building at the corner of Broome and Chrystie streets near the…

art world, bowery, broome street, contemporary art, downtown, ephermeral art, faith forty-seven, faith47, les, lower east side, manhattan, mural, New York, new york street art, nyc, post-graffiti, public art, swans

Graffiti Art Truck … Lower East Side, New York

Awesome example of truck-as-canvas street art  on Essex Street in the Lower East Side of New York City.

chinatown, downtown, essex street, graff, graffiti truck, les, lower east side, manhattan, New York, new york street art, nyc

Design … Boxes of Juice and Water at Butcher’s Daughter … Nolita, New York 

For decades mass-market juices and milk were sold in paper-box cartons, but in recent years all sorts of other juices…

brand identity, branding, butchers daughter, cafes, juices, les, lower east side, manhattan, New York, nyc, package design, packaging, restaurants, style, water

Design … Surfer Magazine’s New Logo and Format

Surfer magazine has boldly introduced its new, artsier design and wider format with this stark black-and-white cover illustration in a…

addiction, illustration, magazine design, magazines, mags, maurice sendak, surf, surf culture, surf magazine, surf media, surfer, surfer magazine, surfing

Street Art … Chinatown, New York

Cute little black-and-white wheat-paste  (“wheatie”) images of a child on a wooden hoarding wrapped around a lamp post base on…

chinatown, contemproary art, downtown, ephermeral art, grand street, les, lower east side, manhattan, New York, new york city, new york street art, nyc, post-graffiti, wheatie, wheatpaste

Google’s NY Office Gay Pride Office Signage … Chelsea, New York

    

Oodles of Noodles … Street Art, Lower East Side, New York City

We love the bold, illustrative quality and humor of this street art piece on a small shop roll-shutter on Orchard…

blades of glory, chazz, chinatown, contempoary art, downtown, ephemeral art, les, lower east side, manhattan, movie quotes, murals, New York, new york street art, noodles, nyc, public art, quotes, rabbits, will ferrell

Breaking Bad “Heisenberg” Tip Jar … Los Angeles

  

Beer Pint Glass with Graphic at Casa Escobar … Malibu, Los Angeles

  

The Standard Hotel Building and the High Line … Meatpacking District, New York

  

Illuminated Venice Sign … Venice Beach, Los Angeles

  

Epic “I Heart NY” Street Art by Artist Nick Walker … Chelsea, New York

  

Street Art Mural at Homegrown … Ventura, California

  

Fresh Street Art by Haculla in Little Italy … Lower East Side, New York

    

“Ba-O-Ba” by Artist Keith Sonnier at the New Whitney Museum … Meatpacking District, New York

  

Graffiti Art at Sunset Junction … Silver Lake, Los Angeles

  

TBWA LA Office … Playa Vista, Los Angeles  

  

Lightning Boy Graphic Tee … Venice, Los Angeles

  

Street art Mural … Santa Monica, Los Angeles

      

“Can’t Steal Our Vibe” Sign at Lone Wolfs (sic) Surf Shop … Venice, Los Angeles

We love this … The Lone Wolfs (sic) surf shop on Lincoln Boulevard in Venice, in Los Angeles, was recently…

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Pancho’s Tacos … Santa Monica, Los Angeles

  

“Love Berto” Mural at Pancho’s … Santa Monica, Los Angeles

    

Street Art Image of Andy Warhol … SoHo, New York

  

“Eat Real Food” Billboard … Williamsburg, Brookyn

We saw this  DIY-style “Eat Real Food” billboard from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) while passing through Williamsburg, Brooklyn on the…

billboards, bqe, brookym, eat real food, graff, graffiti, guerilla art, New York, nyc, signs, williamsburg

In Los Angeles … The New Broad Museum Building

The edgy contemporary architecture of the newly constructed Broad Museum building, a new contemporary art museum in Downtown Los Angeles.…

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Entrance to the Process Lab At Cooper Hewitt Design Museum … New York City

  

NYC Life … Faded Mural and Solo Hoops in Hell’s Kitchen

      

“Self-Punishment Tomorrow Over Self-Control Today” … NoHo, New York City

We stumbled upon this poster on a wall next door to the Japanese beef shop on Great Jones Street in…

More Baby Faces Street Art … Nolita, New York City

These little wheat-pasted baby-faces have been appearing around downtown Manhattan in recent weeks, often strategically placed atop another piece of…

Design – 10 Years of Mobile Devices …

We did a little spring cleaning yesterday at our NYC HQ and discovered a box full old cellphones and gadgets.…

“Boyfriend for Rent” Poster … SoHo, New York City

  

Epic “Seso” Graffiti Art Truck … SoHo, New York

“Downtown” … 190th St. Subway Station, New York

  

Artwork by Piotr Uklanski at the Met … New York

  

Crosswalk Snowman … SoHo, New York

  

Fresh Street Art by “Gumshoe”  … SoHo, New York

      

Design of “Sputnik Sweetheart” Book Cover

      

The Beautiful Retro-Cinematic Style of “Expencive Porno Movie” (sic)

“Expencive Porno Movie” (sic) is not your ordinary surf film. Directed by Argentine surfer and filmmaker Tin Ojeda and released…

alex knost, art film, cinemam retro, documentary, expencive porno movie, films, movies, saturday surf, saturday's, surf culture, surf film, surf movie, surfers, surfing, tin ojeda, wax magazine

“Magic Garden” by Bubi Canal at Munch Gallery

“Love Drunk”



“Working from Photographs”



“Brrr!”



“Among the Thugs”



“Everything is Connected”



Lightbulbs Faces Street Art



“Escalator Baby” Street Art



At the 2015 Armory Show



Pre-Armory Show Coffee at Happy Bones

Vice Creators Project Interview with Tomas Saraceno

architecture, artists, cloud cities, conteporary art, creators project, tomas saraceno, vice, video

Fashion Street Art by Bradley Theodore at Georgia NYC

Artist Bradley Theodore has painted one of his iconic, colorful fashion-themed skeleton portraits on the store front of influential style…

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DIS Whet Talk with Casey Jane Ellison at the Island in the New Museum



Retro “Fish” Surfboard Painting



“Guildmaster”



“Wolf Moon” 



Abbot-Kinney Street Art … Venice Beach, Los Angeles

This image of a woman’s face is in an of itself not a remarkable image, and such subject matter and…

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Classic Surfboards … Malibu Beach

These are some sweet, beautifully designed (and, we’ll guess, expensive) longboard surf boards lined up a long a wall (but…

beach, boards, cali, california, industrial design, la, longboards, los angeles, malibu, malibu beach, socal, surf culture, surfboard design, surfboards, surfers, surfing

Street Art Memorial to Andy Warhol … New York

This mysterious memorial to the late artist Andy Warhol appeared last week on on facing walls along a stretch of…

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Sweet Toof at Woodward Gallery … New York

New commissioned artwork by artist Sweet Toof at the Woodward Gallery’s Project Space on Eldridge Street in New York City.

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Chalk Drawing of “Left Shark”

Within a couple of days of appearing as part of pop singer Katy Perry’s concert at the 2015 Super Bowl…

artwork, chalk drawing, chalkboard, dancers, drawing, hells kitchen, illustration, internet culture, katy perry, left shark, memes, New York, nyc, ogilvy, pop culture, pop music, sharks, super bowl

“Mast” Graffiti Art Truck … Chinatown, New York

These ubiquitous delivery trucks in New York’s Chinatown are often usually covered in trashy graffiti. Occasionally, you see some eye-catching…

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Gummy Bear Mugshot by WhisBe at Equinox … SoHo, New York

We stumbled upon this sticker of the famous gummy-bear mugshot street art image by the artist WhIsBe on a locker…

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Berto Love Mural … Venice Beach, Los Angeles

One of several vibrant and excellent “Love Berto” wave murals in and around Venice Beach, in Los Angeles. This one…

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How YouTube Changed the World

The U.K. newspaper the Daily Telegraph has just published an excellent interactive feature titled “How YouTube Changed the World” that…

daily telegraph, internet, media, pop culture, telegraph, web, youtube

St. John x Vans “Smoking Whale” Mural at Pilgrim … Brooklyn

A sweet mural by St. John with support and in collaboration with Vans and Pilgrim at Pilgrim Surf Supply in…

brooklyn, brooklyn street art, contemporary art, murals, New York, new york city, new york street art, nyc, pilgrim, public art, saint john, skate culture, st. john, surf culture, surfers, surfing, vans, williamsburg

Why Do Ski Trail Maps All Look the Same?

Because most of the maps for the world’s large ski resorts (about 75% of them) were hand-painted by one man,…

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Toy Surfers

These small, green plastic-molded figures of surfers poised in various stances on their surfboards are a riff on the iconic…

decor, everyday interiors, figures, figurines, interior decor, interior design, interiors, les, lower east side, manhattan, New York, nyc, surf, surf culture, surf stance, surfer, surfing, toy boarders, toys, toys surfers

Street Art by “The London Police” … Lower East Side, New York City

The British street art group known as the London Police has been leaving its mark on urban landscapes around the…

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Massive Street Art Mural … Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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“Cat Dreams” Notebook Sketch

“Guns Don’t Kill People … Selfies Do” Graffiti … SoHo, New York

We stumbled upon this hilarious graffiti message scrawled on a wall (signed by the street artist “WhIsBe”) at the corner…

downtown, guns don't kill people selfies do, manhattan, New York, nyc, selfies, soho, whisbe

Scenes from a Snow Day … New York City

As the pix below show, Tuesday was a “snow day” here in New York City due to the massive winter…

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That Massive Controversial Justin Bieber Billboard for Calvin Klein Jeans … SoHo, New York

This is the outdoor billboard ad for the recent controversial Calvin Klein Underwear ad featuring Canadian pop star Justin Bieber.…

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