The large “Understated is Overrated” billboard ad for luxury handbag and shoe brand Kate Spade painted on a brick wall…
Uniqlo Mobile Pop-Up Store
Japanese fashion design and retailing brand Uniqlo opened a luminescent mobile pop-up store in New York City for the DUMBO…
Pantone Colors Hoarding
The wonderful Pantone colors bridge on a building hoarding in DUMBO, Brooklyn, as part of the 2011 DUMBO Arts Festival.
Camera Obscura
Artists Clara de Tezanos and JJ Estrada of the La Fototeca Guatemala created a mobile camera obscura from a shipping…
Cool New Balance Kicks
Awesome, limited-edition New Balance sneakers worn by one of the dudes working at Blue and Cream, a select clothing shop…
Video DUMBO
Photos below of highlights and the sign to the entrance of the Video DUMBO, a group artists exhibition of video,…
Giorgio Armani Pop-Up Sunglasses Shop
The live-video installation and pop-up store for Giorgio Armani eyewear in the Meat Packing District during Fashions Night Out, a…
The “Never Forget” 9/11 Fire Truck
The “Never Forget” firetruck lists the names of all the NYFD firefighters killed in the September 11, 2001 attack on…
Five Pointz + Space Womb
A few pix of the Five Pointz building, the legendary graffiti-art mecca, and surrounding area near the MoMA P.S.1 museum…
Sunset in the NYC Meat Packing District
We managed to get out of a meeting at the office relatively early last week, early enough at least such…
Made in China
New York City street art: “Made in China” poster on Ludlow Street, near Hester Street, on the Lower East Side…
Reception Area at Apple’s NYC Office
We recently went to a meeting at Apple Computer’s New York City office where the company runs its iPad Apps…
VW Taco Van Parked Inside Restaurant
At Tacombi, a Mexican restaurant on Elizabeth Street in Nolita, in New York City, an old-school Volkswagen bus has been…
Kim Jong-Il + LA Dodgers
We’re not sure whether this is supposed to be an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il in this street-art…
What’s Outside the Window? – Vol. 8
The latest installment in our What’s Outside the Window?” series is a set of pix of couples walking along Elizabeth…
Super Awesome Arrivals Board at CDG
The awesome, curved international arrivals board at Charles De Gaulle airport, a.k.a., CDG, outside Paris.
9/11 Magazine Covers
The New York Times looks at how various weekly magazines around the world have designed the covers for the current…
“Lou Reed” Graffiti at Home Sweet Home
The names of legendary musician Lou Reed scrawled on the walls and tiles of a bathroom at Home Sweet Home,…
The Green Soccer Journal
The cover of issue number two of the Green Soccer Journal, an arty, beautifully-designed and intelligent “football” magazine published in…
Fresh Artwork by Dain
Very fresh artwork by the artist Dain on Ludlow Street, on the block between Hester and Canal streets, in the…
Tschüss, Berlin!
Global Graphica has been settling back into NYC after an excellent, fun and incredibly productive trip to Berlin. We met…
Billboard Image of Christo’s Wrapped Reichstag
In 1995 the Bulgarian-French artist couple of Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped the German parliament building or reichstag in polypropylene fabric.…
South American Soccer Player Mullets
There’s an entertaining photo essay titled “The Mullets of Medellin” in the second issue of the Green Soccer Journal, an…
Video of Real Life Angry Birds Game
This video is from a few months ago, but it’s awesome nonetheless: A real-life version of the popular mobile game…
Awesome Clock Design
The minimal, beautifully designed clock in a Berlin U-Bahn (subway) station.
Temptation to Be Good
Poster in the Berlin neighborhood of Kruezberg for the “Temptation to be Good” art exhibition of works by artist Mercedes…
More U-Bahn Signs
Some more station name signs from the Berlin U-Bahn. We love how each station’s signs are distinct in typography, design,…
Giant Bear Mural
Street art in Berlin: From the platform of Eberswalder-strasse U-Bahn Station, you can see a massive mural of a cartoon…
United Buddy Bears Project
A large collection of arty bears statues in the Ku’Damm area of Charlottenberg in Berlin. The figures are part of…
Pictures of Keith Haring Painting the Berlin Wall
An exhibition about the Berlin Wall at the site of the former Checkpoint Charlie border-crossing in Kruezberg near Mitte shows…
Logo of Charlottenberg
Official municipal bike-parking signage with the coat-of-arms logo of Charlottenberg-Wilmersdorf in Berlin.
Logo Stencil
Mysterious logo stencil street art in the Hackescher Market area of Mitte, Berlin.
Beautiful Architecture – Berlin Central Staton
The massive, spacious, glass-sheathed central train station or hauptbahnhof in Berlin.
Daily Media Selection at Casa Camper
The diverse selection of daily newspapers and magazines in the rooftop cafe at the Casa Camper hotel in Berlin. Among…
Brando in Berlin
Large street-art painting of Marlon Brando’s iconic image from the Francis Ford Coppola film “The Godfather” in the Hackescher Market…
Super Colorful Building
We stumbled upon this super-colorful apartment building in the western part of Kreuzberg in Berlin. With a few coats of…
West + East Mirrors at Gropius Bau
The haunting “West” and “Ost” (“East”) mirrors in the epic grand staircase at the Martin Gropius Bau art museum in…
Funny “Vattenfall” Billboard
This funny, clever billboard for the German energy company Vattenfall in Berlin incorporates a ladder and a life-size mannequin of…
Street Art in Hackescher Market, Berlin – Vol. 2
More Berlin street art in Hackescher Market, in the Scheunenviertel area of Mitte.
Berlin Street Art: Karl Marx + Friend
More street art in the Hackescher Market area of Mitte, in central Berlin. Here the historical icon Karl Marx and…
Street Art in Hackescher Market, Berlin – Vol. 1
There’s a lot of street art in the gallery-theater compound tucked into a back-alley courtyard off Rosenthaler Strasse in the…
“I’m Not Free” Kitty
Street art in a courtyard alley in the Hackescher Market of Mitte in Berlin: This black-and-white human-scale poster of an…
Humboldt Box
The Humboldt Box on Museum Island in Berlin’s Mitte. The building is an “interim” exhibition structure on the site of…
Spinning Mercedes-Benz Sign in Berlin
The iconic Daimler Mercedes-Benz logo speaks for itself atop this 1960-70’s era office tower in Charlottenberg, in the former heart…
Another WTF Sculpture?
Love this. Here’s another one of those sculptures that’s bound to make somebody say “WTF?” when they see it. We…
U-Bahn Subway Station Signs
A random sample of station-name signs on the U-Bahn subway in Berlin, Germany. Pictured here: Potsdamer Platz, Stadtmitte, Oranienburger Tor,…
VIDEO: Visual Culture in the NYC Meat Packing District
While some of the Global Graphica team have decamped to Berlin this week and is posting from the German capital,…
The Awesome GSW Hochhaus Building in Berlin
The wonderful modern-contemporary architectural design of the towering GSW Hochhaus building in north end of Kreuzberg, near Mitte, in central…
Masked Man Stencil
Stencil street art on Museum Island in Mitte, in Berlin. What’s so striking about this stencil is that it’s duplicated…
Freedom for Ai Wei Wei Banner
In front of the Martin Gropius Bau museum in Berlin currently hangs a large red banner that says “Freiheit fur…
Escape
“Escape” wheat-paste street-art posting on a utility box at the Wall Memorial at Bernauer Strasse near Wedding, near the north…
Old-School U-Bahn Kiosk
The old-school and beautifully decaying kiosk on the U-Bahn subway platform at Mehringdamn Station in Kreuzberg, in Berlin.
Sexy Contemporary Architecture Berlin
The sexy architectural design of the Otto Bock building in Potsdamerplatz in Berlin. The structure was built to house the…
Meta Street Art Photo
Our favorite piece of street art we’ve seen thus far in Berlin and one of the best we’ve seen all…
Hansa Studios Event Poster
Super-cool graphic design on a poster for a Red Bull-sponsored music event at the legendary Hansa Studios in Berlin.
True Religion Bicycle
Pictured here are True Religion’s bicycles parked in front of the denim brand’s Berlin shop on Munzstrasse in the Scheunenviertel…
“How Long is Now” Mural
The “How Long is Now” on the side of the landmark Kunsthaus Tacheles artist studio-squat complex on Oranienburgerstrasse in Mitte.
More Mykita Design Pix
More pix of Mykita: This time, images of the wonderful interior design at Mykita in Berlin. Also … more pix…
Future Chic Eyewear at Mykita
Mykita is a maker of high-quality, high-end eyewear. The company has built a much-loved brand around the design and manufacture…
“Devil Girl Roses” Street Art Stencil
We’ve seen a few of these Alias “Devil Girl with Roses”stencil artworks in Berlin, around the Spandauer Vorstadt area of…
Berlin’s Iconic TV Tower
Love it or hate it, the TV tower (or Fernsehturm) dominates the Berlin skyline. The twoer was the architectural product…
Berlin Map at Casa Camper
The well-designed map of Berlin at the hotel Casa Camper in Mitte.
Arriving at Berlin Tegel
As we disembarked from the plane, we snapped a pic of the bright and narrow gangway at Berlin Tegel Airport,…
JFK Control Tower and Plane
A quick Instagram pic of the control tower and a plane at JFK before taking off to Berlin
Global Graphica in Berlin
Global Graphica is heading to Berlin for a couple of weeks to work on some projects. We’re really looking forward…
Goateed Man
Wheat-paste street art of a goateed man’s head in the Meat Packing District, NYC.
Do It Like They Do On the Discovery Channel
Cryptic, cheeky line-drawing illustrations wheat-pasted on the shop-front hoarding on Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of New York…
BMW Guggenheim Lab
We’ve been visiting and re-visiting the BMW Guggenheim Lab, which opened in the Lower East Side / East Village of…
New Museum and Rose II Installation
The view skywards from the sidewalk in front of the entrance to the New Museum on the Bowery in the…
“It Was Books That Taught Me …”
The decor of the bathroom at the McNally-Jackson bookstore in New York City includes a quote by American author James…
“Temato” Soup
Black-and-white “‘Temato’ Soup” wheat-paste street art on 14th Street in Chelsea, in homage to Warhol, among others.
Love Love Love
The “Love Me” guy’s “Love Love Love” written across the side of a tenement building at the corner of Mulberry…
Fresh Artwork by Dain
We haven’t seen new artwork by Dain in downtown Manhattan for a long time, so it’s great to see some…
Rae on Crosby Street
More fresh artwork by the artist “Rae” on Crosby Street in SoHo, downtown New York City.
Space Invader on the High Line
Some recently discovered artwork by French artist Invader (a.k.a., Space Invader) on the High Line in Chelsea, in New York…
The Sexy La Marzocco Espresso Machine
The very sexy and beautifully designed La Marzooco espresso machine at the Blue Bottle coffee cart on the High Line…
Buttercup
Somebody wrote “Buttercup” with what seems like “white-out” liquid on the brick wall of the restroom at Bar Lolita in…
Czar Alexander
A worn, weathered wheat-paste street art poster image of Czar Alexander (right?) at the entrance to the New Museum on…
Gothamized New Museum Lobby
Our Instagram photo of the lobby at the New Museum on the Bowery in the Lower East Side of New…
NYC T-Shirt Girl
Another in a series black-and-white wheat-paste street artworks of people wearing “NYC” t-shirts. In this one, a bleached-blond girl poses…
Cool Wine Label
We shared a bottle of red wine last week over dinner with friends. The plonk was a California cabernet sauvignon…
Artwork by “Rae” on Ludlow Street
Street art on Ludlow Street, between Hester and Canal streets in the Lower East Side.
Abstract Paint Cover-ups
Shop owners often paint over graffiti on their storefronts with paint that’s a slightly different shade than the original coating,…
“Little Big Berlin” Tilt-Shift Video
Little Big Berlin from pilpop on Vimeo.
The Super Contemporary SoHo Synagogue
The designy front to the super modern-contemporary or “MoCo” Soho Synagogue on Crosby Street on the ground floor of a…
“Paintings” Storefront
“Paintings” storefront gallery space on Ludlow Street in downtown NYC.
Awesome Lighting in SoHo Loft Building
Beautiful lighting-art installation in the lobby of a cast-iron loft building in SoHo, in downtown New York City.
A Few Pix from Alexander McQueen’s “Savage Beauty”
During a private invitation-only tour with Vogue magazine, Global Graphica publisher Van Corsa took a few pix of the recent…
The Rejected Design of Brazil’s Famous Flag
The modern flag of Brazil was adopted in 1889 and its distinctive graphic design has become one of the most…
Cool Logos – Ninth Street Espresso
Ninth Street Espresso makes coffee that’s among the top tier in New York City, if not arguably the best in…
DESIGN SICKNESS: ELEGANT CHAIR AND TABLE AUTO-MAGICALLY MAKES US FEEL BOUGIE A.F.!
This beautiful chair and table are in the reception area at the company headquarters of David Yurman, the jewelry company,…
Gold Shepard Fairey
Fresh stencil art work in gold by artist Shepard Fairey near the corner of Prince and Mott streets in Nolita,…
14th-Street Art Truck
As graffiti art on trucks in downtown New York City go, the one pictured below is a lot more original…
Toyota’s Prius x Parlee Concept Bike
Check out this cool mini-documentary video that tells the story of the Prius x Parlee ( PxP ) bike, an…
Awesome Japanese Sake Bottle Label
The beautiful label on the bottle of sake (or was it shochu?) we tried at Japanese restaurant Hayama on Sawtelle…
The Super-Mini Music Production Studio
We’ve recently been doing a lot of music production – recording and mixing – for an interactive project at Global…
Forty Harrison Fords
Forty illustrations of Harrison Ford in his roles in the forty films in which he is credited. Full of awesome!
“Tom Selleck Saved My Baby!”
Another installment by artist Dimitri Drjuchin of his “Tom Selleck Saved My Baby” series of wheat-paste street art posters, featuring…
Moschino Display Window
The beautiful, playful and whimsical “From Italy with Love!” display window at the Moschino shop in the Meat Packing District…
What’s Outside the Window? – Vol. 7
In Volume 7 of our ongoing series “What’s Outside the Window?” we have pic of the view from Lolita, a…
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