The entrance to the esteemed Japanese restaurant Morimoto in Chelsea, in New York City, has a design aesthetic that is…
Pacific Pirates
Love this. We can watch this over and over again, diminishing law of returns notwithstanding. It’s surfing porn. And it’s…
Last of the Moguls
The cover to this past week’s edition of the Economist magazine features a simple, clean design with a photo of…
Wall-Mounted Fiat Car as Ready-Made Conceptual Art?
The color-blocked Fiat by British conceptual artist Simon Starling, mounted on a wall at the New Museum in downtown New…
Cover of China’s “Drink” Magazine
In China, there’s a magazine devoted to cocktails, mixology, bars, and alcohol beverages. It’s called Drink and here’s the cover…
Elephants Stencil
Small, droll stencil of a chain of elephants on a stucco wall near the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)…
Japanther Sticker
Sticker for the New York City indie-noise band Japanther on an Orchard Street door in the Lower East Side of…
What’s Outside the Window? – Vol. 6
In our going series “What’s Outside the Window,” we post this view from Le Pain Quotidien (one of a Belgian…
Yarn Bombed Piano
Two creative directions and artist collide in the form of this yarn-bombed grand piano: The acclaimed New York-based Polish artist…
Been Down So Long Looks Like Up To Me
“Been down so long looks like up to me” is a commissioned art space on a storefront roller-shutter on the…
What’s Outside the Window? – Vol. 5
The latest in our “What’s Outside the Window?” series of posted images … Here’s the view out the window from…
WTF, Mismatched Shoes?
We’ve been working with an awesome brand strategist recently on a series of integrated marketing projects for a acclaimed luxury-fashion…
Video Screen in Hotel Elevator Loops Italian Film
We’ve been guests at a few of the Thompson hotels over the years. The Thompson LES in the Lower East…
Urs Fischer’s 35,000-Pound Teddy Bear
Pix of the giant teddy bear art work installation by Swiss artist Urs Fischer in the plaza of the Seagram’s…
Ace Hotel Turntable Decor
The famous red turntable and desert-chic interior of a room at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs,…
Angry Birds Street Art
The massively popular iPhone app game Angry Birds has inspired this piece of street art on W. 14th Street in…
Eyes Wide Shut
Giant blown-up black-and-white photographic image of a Native American man’s eyes shut tight on the wall at the northwest corner…
Moleskine Notebook Project: Surfboard Drawings
Here’s our second post in Global Graphica’s Moleskine Notebook Project: Van Corsa holds up the notebook pages displaying felt-tip marker…
Artwork by “Astro Naut” in Spain
Astro Naut in Spain sent us a pic of his recent massive street-art mural work in Madrid. Love it! Check…
Moleskine Notebook Project: Coffee Cup Drawings
In a new photo series, we’re launching the Moleskin Notebook Project. We’ll be regularly taking pictures of the notebook pages…
Mr. Brainwash’s Green Giant
Another massive piece of wheat-paste street art in Los Angeles from Mister Brainwash ( a.k.a., MBW, a.k.a., Thiery Guetta, who …
What the Bird Saw
Our man with the eyes in Los Angeles, Josh, delivers some street-art goodness this week including this pic he snapped…
DJs on 14th Street
DJs practicing their craft in front of Dubspot on West 14th Street in the Meat Packing District of downtown New…
Typographic Town & Country
Awesome graphic design and typographic treatment on this “Town and Country” wild-posting in Chelsea, in New York City, for a…
Yours Truly by ASVP
Classic “Yours Truly” posting by artist duo ASVP in the Chelsea art galleries district.
Not Just Another Nail Salon
A wonderful use of graffiti scrawl as signage and marketing on a roller shutter: “Not just another nail salon” references…
Dope Summer Shirt
Snapped in the Meat Packing District of New York City, we saw this dude with a dope tee. We hate…
Brooklyn Pastoral
From our City Life file … Pic of the beautiful, lush garden behind a couple of of old tenement apartment…
F*cked-Up Halcyon Sign
The beautifully distressed logo-sign at the entrance to influential culture hub Halcyon in DUMBO, in Brooklyn.
How Classic NYC is this Truck?
Classic graffiti truck parked on Ninth Avenue across from Chelsea Market near New York City’s Meat Packing District.
Backwards Milk Studios Van
A production van for the acclaimed Milk Studios on the border of the Meat Packing District and Chelsea in downtown…
Sexed-Up DVF Shop Window
Recent sexed-up, summery window display at the New York City flagship store of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg ( DVF…
Woah! Giant Kaws Sculpture at Standard Hotel
A giant sculpture by the artist (and infamous former graffiti writer) Kaws of his famous, iconic cartoon character sits, head…
A Preview of the New Whitney Museum
Below is New York Magazine photo with computer-generated rendering of the building that will be the new home to the…
Blank City
Stumbled upon this poster in Providence, R.I., for the film Blank City, a recent documentary by Céline Danhier about the…
Picture of Artist Richard Prince
Torn wheat-paste street-art poster with black-and-white photographic image of acclaimed American painter-photographer Richard Prince, in the Meat Packing District of…
What’s Outside the Window? – Vol. 4
The fourth installment in our photo project series “What’s Outside the Window?” Here we have a view of the East…
Four5
Four5 wheat-paste poster in deep TriBeCa Nolita, in downtown New York City. The image is striking in its high-contrast black…
Down to Earth
This awesome-since-Day-One “Down to Earth” wheat-paste poster by artists A.S.V.P. is on Greene Street in SoHo, downtown New York City.…
Obey + Stickers in Providence
A classic Shepard Fairey “Obey” (“Giant has a Posse”) sticker on the back of a speed-limit sign in the otherwise…
RISD’s Well-Designed Signs
A recent road trip to Boston took us through Providence, Rhode Island, where we visited the Rhode Island School of…
Awesomely Faded “Built By Wendy” Graphic Tee
Photographer Major Deegan (a.k.a., Daniel Puissant) proudly shows off his awesomely faded Built by Wendy graphic t-shirt by Wendy Mullins.…
Logo Floor at Kiehl’s
The awesome logo-fied tile floor at Keihl’s new Meat Packing District shop in New York.
Kiehl’s Wall of Neon
Kiehl’s, the storied beauty brand, recently opened a shop in the the Meat Packing District of downtown New York City.…
International Klein Blue and Web Display, WTF?
The hue of blue known as International Klein Blue (or “IKB”) is a color that cannot be accurately rendered on…
Rubin Chappelle Chandelier
The New York City home of Austro-Italian style duo Rubin Chappelle is a beautifully architecturally designed space on West 14th…
The Rope-Controlled Folding NYC Road Sign
On the southwest corner at the intersection of Kenmare and Elizabeth streets in Nolita, in downtown New York City, there’s…
Video – Woman Gets Tattoo of Facebook Friends
Video titled “My Social Tattoo” of a woman getting her Facebook friends’ profile pictures tattooed on her arm. 152 kinds…
Monopoly Man
The wonderfully retro-iconic “Monopoly Man” paste-up by Alec. The character was also known as “Mr. Monopoly.” But his official name…
Awesome Infographic Video About the Internet in 2015
Awesome video of awesome animated infographics (infoporn). The clip is a beautiful, clever data visualization by Neo and Mitsue of…
I Wanna Rock with You
Super-duper awesome “I Wanna Rock with You” mural on a storefront roller-shutter on the Bowery in the Lower East Side…
What’s Outside the Window? – Vol. 3
In our thematic photo series “What’s Outside the Window,” we post a shot of the view from the second floor…
Armored Baby Stroller
This armored baby stroller is an artwork by Czech artist Kristof Kintera. The work is titled “Bad Innovation in the…
Vintage Book Cover Design
We were walking up Lafayette Street when we found this vintage-style Western-adventure paperback novel set on the steps to a…
Mr. Brainwash Massive in L.A.
Our man in Los Angeles, Josh, snapped pictures of this massive work by Mr. Brainwash (Thierry Guetta) on Santa Monica…
New Video Virality: People of Wal-Mart
There’s is nothing more to be said about this clip. It speaks for itself. 🙂
Q & A with Photographer Major Deegan
In the first post in our new “Creators” series of profiles and interviews, Global Graphica producer Van Corsa speaks with…
Cursive Roll-up Shutter
Thing of beauty. Love the line(s). This looks like the cursive typographical lines used in a recent tequila ad campaign…
What’s Outside the Window? – Vol. 2
The second in our photographic series of posts called “What’s Outside the Window.” Below are pix of the view from…
Interview with Edward Tufte
We recently stumbled upon an interview with “information sage” Edward Tufte in the Washington Monthly. The statistician and graphic design…
Love Me Forklift
“Love Me” ( a.k.a., Curtis Kulig) strikes again. Rather than a painted graffiti scrawl, this instance is a sticker on…
Fashion Show on the Street
Fashion Forward Fashion Show is just that, a fashion show but an unusual one that’s really more a local promotional…
What Happened to Air France Flight 447?
Two years ago Air France Flight 447 suddenly disappeared above the Atlantic ocean en route from Rio de Janeiro to…
The Start-Up Guys … “No Brand Cuffs”
We’ve watched this satircal look at the current web-tech start-up culture at least five times and it made us laugh…
Light Floor at Chelsea Market
The beautiful floor lit from below at Chelsea Market in New York City. The market is an early, successful and…
Terry Barrier
We found another stencil of downtown celebrity-fashion photographer Terry Richardson in the Meat Packing District. This one is on a…
Building-Size Desigual Ad
Following on the successes of other Spanish clothing retailers such as Zara and Mango, Desigual entered the U.S. market a…
The “What’s Outside the Window?” Series – Vol. 1…
In a new series of posts, we’re going to take pictures of our view looking out windows from the various…
James Perse’s Japan Window
To raise awareness and charitable contributions for victims of the Japan’s recent Tohoku Earthquake disaster, acclaimed clothing designer James Perse…
Be the Change You Wish to See in the World
A beautiful message on the wall of the guest room in a photographer friend’s downtown New York City apartment: “Be…
“Ginger Ale” Graffiti Ad in Progress – Part 4
In Part IV of our series of posts chronicling the painting of an outdoor graffiti-art ad for a brand of…
Matt Siren + Milk + Cookie
Paintings by artist Matt Siren hang in Panade, a cafe that doubles as a gallery on Eldridge Street in the…
What up, NYC?
What’s up, NYC?
Van on Location at Ginger Ale Graffiti Ad Project
Our fearless leader on location at the site of the Ginger Ale graffiti ad project. (If you see him walking…
“Ginger Ale” Graffiti Ad in Progress – Part 3
Our third post on the Ginger Ale graffiti ad painting in progress at the corner of Canal and Ludlow streets…
The Most Interesting Man in the World Billboard
Check out this massive outdoor billboard-style ad for Dos Equis (XX) beer painted on the side of an apartment building…
Who is Jeff Wallace?
“Who is Jeff Wallace?” this sidewalk sign asks passersby on East Houston Street. Wallace is a bespectacled and bearded “resident…
“You Would” Street Cone
“You Would” strikes again. This time on an orange street cone on the sidewalk on Ludlow Street near Hester Street…
“Ginger Ale” Graffiti Ad in Progress – Part 2
Part II of the series of photos documenting the gradual progress of graffiti artists painting a massive outdoor advertisement for…
“Ginger Ale” Graffiti Ad in Progress – Part 1
Part 1 of 2 posts chronicling the work in progress of some graffiti street art being painted. In this case,…
Kentucky Derby Jockey Jerseys
The annual Kentucky Derby, the premier horse race event in the United States, is this weekend. We don’t really care…
Yarnbombed Bike by Olek
Last year the artist Olek ( a.k.a., Agata Oleksiak) covered an entire vintage Volkswagen Beetle in colorful crocheted yarn as…
Terry Richardson Stencil
Celebrated fashion photographer and New Yorker Terry Richardson has had his image created as stencil street art. These stencils of…
Project No. 8
The logotype and window signage at the wonderful Project No. 8, an awesomely stylish shop with an astute and beautifully…
Beautiful Decay in Tokyo
Seeing this decaying bench in Daimon, a neighborhood in central Tokyo, Japan, reminds us of the Japanese expression mono no…
Zero Hotel
POV shot of the branded carpeting (and some feet) in the elevator at the Zero hotel in Shibuya, in Tokyo,…
Times Front Page and Bin Laden Death
On the day the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death was reported, the New York Times went with the screaming…
I Remember You From the …
“I remember you from the …” graffiti message on a wall next to the Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo, in…
Protest March in SoHo
From our City Life file … the annual May Day protest march for the International Day of the Worker, which…
EPIC: THE SURF CULTURE PHOTOGRAPHY OF LEROY GRANNIS!
This week we added a striking new volume from Taschen to our library of coffee-table photography books at Global Graphica…
Future Cop
Fresh New York City work by A.S.V.P.: “Future Cop” wheat-paste street art on a lamp post in downtown Manhattan.
Fiat Cafe
The Fiat Cafe in Nolita, in downtown New York City, is a tiny Italian-style restaurant with the classic Fiat car…
The Red and the Yellow
Caught this bright yellow NYC taxi driving by this bright red graffiti’d truck next to the Apple Store in the…
Since Way Back
We like the the look of this hip-hop imagery featuring Theophilus London and Michael Williams in this Bushmills billboard ad…
Logo Tourist
Logo Tourist is a website by an artist who uses well-known logos to create graphic depictions of famous Parisian tourist…
Saturdays Surf NYC
The wonderful display window at Saturdays Surf NYC, the Crosby Street surf shop and cafe in SoHo in downtown New…
Tico Boat
We found this small overturned fishing skiff (dubbed “Caguama”) on the main beach at Playa Tamarindo in Costa Rica, where…
Gussa
There’s little street art or even graffiti in Costa Rica’s beach towns, but here’s an uplifting graff by “Gussa” we…
Perro Bravo + Thicker Than Thieves Poster
Awesome concert poster for the bands Thicker Than Thieves and Perro Bravo on a post in Jaco, Costa Rica.
Battered Surfer Wagon
Battered old Toyota mini-truck as surfer wagon in Jaco, Costa Rica. Love the collection of stickers on the back.
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