“A Native American was Here” Graffiti in SoHo, in New York City.
Gun-Toting Native American Street Art In SoHo
Wheat-paste street art poster by artist Dylan Egon of Native American in traditional garb and toting a modern, high-powered assault…
Artemide Lamps Minimalist Holiday Window Display
The beautiful display window at night of Artemide lamps and the lighting-design brand’s exceptionally minimalist winter holiday decor at its…
Cute Robot Street Art
Wheat-paste street art of a super cute toy robot posted on Crosby Street in SoHo, in downtown New York City.
Argentina Themed Banner at Opening Ceremony NYC Shop
There’s a new set of Argentina-themed Opening Ceremony flags and banners hanging in front of the influential clothing retailer’s original…
Defaced Terry Richardson for Sol Moscot Eyewear Billboard Ad
Celebrated fashion and celebrity photographer Terry Richardson appears in a billboard ad for eyewear designer Sol Moscot modeling “The Terry”…
Smart Car Sign Re-Purposed as Light-Shelf
An expat British filmmaker friend of ours living in Berlin has an intriguing collection of furniture in his apartment, in…
“Delete More, Care Less”
“Delete More, Care Less” poster on Crosby Street in SoHo, in New York.
Casa Camper Berlin
Picture of the eco-friendly and beautifully designed Casa Camper hotel in Berlin at night. The room numbers are displayed on…
Obey Beethoven Ad
Local New York City classical music radio station WQXR has taken a cue from and cleverly appropriated street-art superstar artist…
Hipster Sunglasses Frankenstein
Wheat-paste street art of Frankenstein wearing hipster plastic blinds sunglasses (a la Kanye West in 2008) at the corner of…
Tokyo Design Festa
Some pix from the second 2011 Tokyo Design Festa held at the Big Sight in Odaiba, in Tokyo, Japan. The…
The London Police in NYC
Recent work by street art collective known as the London Police. This small work of street art is not much…
The Return of Bast
Fresh art work by Bast on Crosby Street in SoHo. It’s the first new work by the artist we’ve seen…
Cortelyou
Degraded street art and Cortelyou sticker mashup on the base of a lamp post in SoHo, in New York City.
Stop Sign Down!
Knocked down Stop Sign (and One Way sign) at the corner of Crosby and Prince streets in SoHo, in New…
Matt Siren Skull Stencil
The return of Matt Siren, but with a skull stencil image vastly different from his iconic girl image.
The Blue Light Wall at the Pan American
The blue-light wall with its surface of bumps at the recently opened second outpost of the Pan American, a pan-Latin…
The Original AT&T Building
The original AT&T Building in TriBeCa in downtown Manhattan. Ironically AT&T cell phone coverage in the blocks surrounding the building,…
Revisiting the Uniqlo Global Flagship Store (Article)
The recently opened Uniqlo “Global Flagship” store on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan’s prime stretch of shopping is a massive…
The Space at Geiss
The beautiful gallery and work space at Geiss, formerly the home of Deitch Projects art gallery on Grand Street in…
Hollister’s Massive Video Fountain
The massive, stunning wall of video and fountain along the frontage of the giant new Hollister store on New York’s…
“Gentrification Battlefield” Video Game
“Gentrification Battlefield” is a Dutch video game project pitting the forces of yuppie-hipster invaders against long-time residents of an Amsterdam…
Pharrell + Tokyo Themed Palladium Billboard
Billboard in Nolita, near SoHo in downtown New York City, for the Palladium brand with Pharrell and a “Tokyo Rising”…
Bowery + Houston Streets
Yet more awesomeness at the massive commissioned art space on the wall at the northwest corner of Bowery and Houston…
ASVP at Lasso
ASVP put up fresh wheat-paste artwork on a column at Lasso, a hip pizza-by-the-slice place that is also a small…
Banksy x Tom Hanks = Hanksy
What do you get when you mash up Tom Hanks and Banksy? Hanksy, naturally, and a droll, cheeky piece of…
“Talk to Me” at MoMA – Part 4
Pix of the Crowbot and Crowbot Jenny at the Talk to Me interactive design show at MoMA, in New York…
“Talk to Me” at MoMA – Part 3
“Export to World” is a project by German artists Linda Kostowski and Sascha Pohflepp based in Linz, Austria. For their…
“Talk to Me” at MoMA – Part 2
Tweenbot, a cardboard, wheeled mechanical robot that when set loose in an experiment in Washington Square Park, would ask people…
“Talk to Me” at MoMA – Part 1
Entrance to Talk to Me at MoMA.
La Colombe Espresso Cup n’ Saucer
The saucer that comes with the espresso cup at the MoMA Cafe is cleverly branded with the name of the…
At the Cafe at MoMA
We are at MoMA today, live-blogging a visit to the “Talk to Me” interactive communications and design exhibition. Out first…
Design of “The Passenger” Movie Poster
We have always loved the film “The Passenger.” The movie was directed by legendary Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni and stars…
Giant Triple Mushrooms Sculpture
German artist Carsten Holler’s “Giant Triple Mushrooms, 2010.” The artwork is part of the Carsten Holler Experience, a retrospective exhibition…
Untitled Gallery Sneak Peak
A look at the space at Untitled Gallery on Orchard Street in the Lower East Side. These pix reveal the…
Muffin Milk
“Muffin Milk” and UFO outside L’Orange Bleu on Crosby Street in SoHo, downtown New York City.
Revisiting the Meat Packing District
A few months ago we posted a short video sampling (see below) of the urban scenery in New York City’s…
Steve Jobs Street Art
Clever optical use of a vertical-rail fence for some sliced-up wheat-paste street art images of the late Apple co-founder and…
The Mirror Carousel by Carsten Holler
Artist Carsten Holler’s slow-moving swing-chair “Mirror Carousel” at the New Museum in New York.
On Line at Carsten Holler
We’re checking out the Carsten Holler Experience exhibition at the New Museum. There’s a long line of people out the…
“Objectified”
It’s movie night tonight at Global Graphica HQ. While everybody else is pre-Halloween partying, we’re staying out of the blizzard…
Canal Street Station Artwork
“Empress Voyage” picto-diary artwork by artist Bing Lee at the Canal Street subway station in New York City. The station…
Artwork from RADICAL!
Photos of artwork by RADICAL! at the artist’s show at the Munch Gallery in New York.
The Occupied
More photographic portraits from the Inside Out Project: Wheat-paste posters near the corner of Broome and Orchard streets in the…
Nike “Always On” Concept Store
The architectural design and interior of the Nike “Always On” concept store in New York is super-awesome. The shop is…
Nautical Curtain at Lost Weekend – Vol. 3
Nautical Curtain Lost Weekend – Vol. 2
Nautical Curtain at Lost Weekend NYC
What’s Outside the Window? – Vol. 9
The view out the window onto Broome Street from the bar at Lolita on a recent autumn evening in the…
Heart-Shaped Sunglasses
Photo portrait of a woman wearing heart-shaped sunglasses: It’s one of a set of blown-up photographs wheat-pasted on a building…
Creatures of Comfort Neon
The beautiful neon-light sign for Creatures of Comfort, a shop in Nolita, in downtown Manhattan.
“Sports are Dead” by RADICAL!
Awesome artwork (“Sports are Dead”) by the upstate New York artist RADICAL!, who is currently having his work shown at…
NoMad View
We visited a photographer friend’s product lifestyle photo shoot held on the terrace of a penthouse apartment in Chelsea, in…
Alexander Wang Shop Branding
The exterior shop signage at the Alexander Wang store on Mercer and Grand streets in SoHo, in New York City.…
Lost Weekend NYC
Global Graphica’s new local go-to for really good coffee is around the corner from our HQ. It’s Lost Weekend NYC,…
The Fashion of Qaddafi’s Killer
Was Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s killer a New York Yankees fan? Was his executioner partial to graphic t-shirts? The dramatic newspaper…
More Giant Eyes in New York
Another massive “closed-eyes” mural called “Lakota, North Dakota” in SoHo on the side of a lofts apartment building at the…
The Ira Glass Sex Tape Parody
Massive lulz for the NPR-listening peeps: The Ira Glass sex-tape parody. The Ira Glass impersonation is dead one and a…
Speech Cloud
Olek Yarn Bombed Bike at Acne
Another of Olek’s (a.k.a., Polish-born, New York-based artist Olek Agata’s) yarn-bombed bicycles in New York City. This one is parked…
Acne Shop, SoHo
The entrance to the Acne shop in SoHo, in downtown New York City. Acne is a Swedish clothing brand and…
Root Hill Cafe Logos
The wonderful branding and logo design of the Root Hill Cafe on a construction hoarding in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Ken Rock
Here’s a picture of “Ken Rock,” a.k.a., artist Ken Hiratsuka, who we met at an open studio reception in Brooklyn…
Scenes from a New York Artists Studio
More pix from the studio shared by several Japanese artists in Brooklyn.
Artists Studio Visit
Posting from our iPhone this Saturday evening the first in a series of pix from a visit to an artists’…
Sky Lounge at the New Museum
The awesome “sky lounge” and its awesome views atop the awesome architecture of the building that is the New Museum…
Face SoHo
Massive black-and-white street art mural image of a suited man’s painted face across the side of a building near the…
Wine Rack at Bread TriBeCa
The awesome wine rack wall behind the bar at Bread TriBeCa, a restaurant in New York City.
Seven Days in the Art World
We just finished reading this dogeared and worn paperback edition of Sarah Thornton’s “Seven Days in the Art World,” which…
J. Crew “Liquor Store” Concept Shop
The architectural design of J. Crew’s concept store for men’s clothing in Tribeca, in New York City, preserves the old-school…
“Chakuza” in Bangkok
Painted outdoor advertisement for the Oishi beverage company’s “Chakuza” brand canned green-tea drink in the Bang Rak neighborhood of Bangkok,…
Cool Green Motorbike
We’re not into motorcycles. Don’t ride them. But we’re fans of design and stumbled across this green motorbike parked in…
“Now Design Your Intervention!”
We recently participated in the BMW Guggenheim Lab’s “City of Bits, Bytes and People” interactive presentation and ideation event run…
Boom Box Street Art
Wheat-paste street art image of a retro-1980s style boom box on the base of a lamp post at the corner…
Tapestry Made of Paper Debris from the Twin Towers
Artist Elena del Rivero’s massive installation artwork “[Swi:t] Home: A CHANT” is a rich, touching work drawing on the creator’s…
Opening Ceremony Logo Sticker & Bandanna Print Paper
Last summer we bought an awesome Acne t-shirt at Opening Ceremony’s shop on La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood, in…
Steve Jobs Memorialized on Apple Website
Co-founder and former CEO of Apple Computer, Steve Jobs passed away this week. The Apple website has memorialized Jobs on…
Mets x Yankees Logos Mashup
Street-art mash-up of team logos for the New York Yankees and Mets baseball teams. For some American fans of baseball,…
John Lennon Mural at Five Guys
Insight’s massive black-and-white mural of the late, great former Beatles member John Lennon on the side of the Five Guys…
“America” Neon Sign by Glenn Ligon at LACMA
The white neon-light “America” sign (titled Rückenfigur) by New York-based artist Glenn Ligon at the “Human Nature” contemporary art exhibition at…
Blao! Abstract
Abstract street art paste-up by “Blao!” (?) on the door to a lofts building on Crosby Street in SoHo.
BMW Guggenheim Lab Badge Design
The well-designed re-usable, recyclable ticket-badge for BMW Guggenheim Lab in New York City.
3D Images at Berlin-Weekly Gallery
Pix of the beautifully designed entrance and gallery space of Berlin Weekly (Berlin-Weekly.com) on Linienstraase, near the heart of the…
Uniqlo Pop-Up Shop in the Light of Day
Another look at the Uniqlo mobile pop-up store that was set-up at the recent DUMBO Arts Festival in Brooklyn, in…
White Way-Finding Lines at P.S.1
A white line runs along the middle of the floor in the halls and stairs on MoMA P.S.1 art museum…
Awesome Package Design of Bonanza Espresso
We love the minimal, clean package design of Bonanza Espresso, a brand of coffee roasted at the Bonanza Coffee Heroes…
QR Codes on Rooftops
Some clever marketers have come up with an idea for putting QR codes on the tops of buildings such that…
Yarn-Bombed Shopping Cart
A super-awesome yarn-bombed shopping cart by the the artist Olek (a.k.a., Agata Olek) in the New York City Meat Packing…
Angela Merkel Stencil in Berlin
We found this wonderful piece of stencil street art in Berlin’s Scheunenviertel neighborhood in Mitte. The stencil image is of…
Manhattan View
Here’s another view looking northwest from the MoMA P.S.1 contemporary art museum in Queens. In distance is the Manhattan skyline…
View from MoMA P.S.1
The view north from MoMA P.S.1, a contemporary-art museum in Long Island City Queens. Across the street is a large…
Berlin is Beach
One of many “Berlin is a Beach” street art posters we saw wheat-pasted around the hipper parts of Mitte around…
Cocoa Nibs
Visual design of food: The cocoa nibs stuck to the side of this dark chocolate bar from the Francois Payard…
Clown-Branded White Range Rover
This white Range Rover parked on W. 14th Street in New York’s Meat Packing District is an official NYC-licensed livery…
Painting by Little Annie at Eleven
Commissioned street-art painting by “Little Annie” Bandez in the art space at Eleven vintage clothing shop at 11 Prince Street…
Ducati Design
A beautifully designed Ducati motorcycle parked on the sidewalk on W. 14th Street in the Meat Packing District in New…
RK
Another one of those RK placards tied to a New York City traffic sign pole. The artwork is usually a…
Doing Lines at Pan American
Skippy L., a good Friend of Global Graphica, demonstrates the proper way of doing lines on a mirror … lines…
Sexy Interior at Boutique NYC Ad Agency
Pix of the beautiful, sexy modern-contemporary (MoCo) interior design and decor at the SoHo New York offices of boutique digital…
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