The Information

We were setting up our Saturday-morning “wake up music” playlist on iTunes and enjoying that first cup of coffee when…

Cinema in the Park

Each in summer in Bryant Park, in New York City, the cable network HBO sponsors a series of outdoor film…

Massive Tokyo Mural

A beautiful, sprawling painting on the side of an apartment building near the NHK TV-broadcast studios complex in Shibuya, in…

Vedett Logo

A glass branded with the logo of Belgian beer Vedett “Extra White” at a pub in Shibuya, in Tokyo, Japan.…

Billy Idol

Fresh wheat-paste street art by the artist Primo on the Jay Maisel building on the Bowery, downtown New York City.

Rio Decor

Beautiful living-room decor in a downtown New York City apartment: An large, rasterized image of some dudes playing “football” (soccer…

Ping Pong

Table tennis on a summer Sunday in Bryant Park, New York City.

Shibuya Sleeper

This guy looks like he may have had a little too much to drink the night before in Shibuya, in…

New York Cosmos

Retro-design sticker for the legendary and short-lived 1970s-80s New York Cosmos soccer team. We stumbled across this in Petrosino Park…

Full Stop

Stops signs at the end of a narrow lane in SoHo, NYC.

How About Them Apples?

From our City Life series: New York ad agency interactive-creative peeps in their natural habitat. (Please refrain from feeding them…

Haculla “Fuk Art”

Visitors to the seventh-floor terrace at the New Museum in New York City will treated to this massive “fuk art”…

Rivane Neuenschwander

“I Wish Your Wish” is a colorful artwork installation by Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander and currently on view as part…

Line-Drawing Face

We love this line-drawing of a face, tucked away on the side of a building hoarding downtown.

Lost Duck

These hilarious “Lost Duck” posters have been popping up everywhere downtown the past few months. This diptych of posters on…

Loriot + Luggage + Mags

From our “Space + Places” file: Various snapshots of the television set in the guest room at our highly internationalized…

The Bar at the Park

The beautiful interior and architectural design of the bar at the Park, a massive restaurant in Chelsea, in New York…

Old-Man Face

Fresh wheat-paste street art on the legendary Jay Maisel building (the former Germania Bank) at Bowery and Spring.

Neon Arrow

Ping neon arrow sign at Kiosk on Spring Street in SoHo, New York City.

Viva Espana!

Scenes from a New York City bar showing the FIFA World Cup final between Spain and Holland: Spanish supporters go…

Daikanyama Stickiness

Lots and lots of stickies and sticker art near the train station in Daikanyama, a laidback neighborhood between Ebisu, Shibuya…

Narita Rain

The rainy view of Narita International Airport Terminal 1 from our window seat on a recent  flight from Tokyo to…

Shepard Fairey on NY1

Artist Shepard Fairey appeared on local New York City news station NY1 for an in-studio live interview segment. Among several…

A.S.V.P. Letters

More street-art freshness in the form of large, colorful letters by A.S.V.P. on the “Jay Meisel” building at Spring and…

Greetings From Coney Island

Wheat-paste street art of a classic Americana-style Coney Island picture postcard on the Jay Meisel building (on Spring street at…

Time Machine

Oh, so this is what a time machine looks like. Who knew it was parked on Broome Street in Chinatown,…

Smort Crew

This van parked on Wooster Street in SoHo has been given the graffiti treatment by Smort Crew.

A.S.V.P. Nolita

An A.S.V.P. wheat-paste poster at the vacant lot at the corner of Prince and Mulberry streets, across the way from…

Sneaker

Another one of the sneakers wheat-paste posters. This street art work series uses bright DayGlo-type colors over a black-and-white image…

Foursquare Badges Design

Foursquare badges have a distinct (mostly) flat info-graphic design aesthetic we like. The designs have thick round borders and cheery…

Meet

Gorgeous signage and architectural design at Meet, a beautiful loft space  at “The Apartment” in SoHo that can be rented…

Haculla of Liberty

Fresh art work from Haculla at the usual spot near Cafe Select on Lafayette Street in SoHo / Nolita.  IHere…

Walk Walk

These directional “Walk” signs on a building hoarding in SoHo are amusing. Love ’em. Aside from stating the obvious, the…

Read Dead Redemption

The side of this building at Canal and Mercer streets on the Soho-Tribeca border in New York City has for…

Epic Marco

Artist and Lower East Side fixture Marco painted these massive hoardings on the stretch of Orchard Street between Houston and…

Google Maps Car Chase

Here’s an amusing short animated video of a birds-eye view car chase on Google Maps. The locale is Brooklyn, New…

Ripped Shepard Fairey

A massive and ripped-up Obey-Andre (“Giant has a Posse”) wheat-paste poster in SoHo, in downtown New York City. Looks kinda…

La Colombe

The beautiful and beautifully rendered large logo on the wall at La Colombe Torrefaction cafe in Tribeca, New York City.The…

Revisit

Revisit is a beautiful real-time and dynamic visualization of Twitter users and their tweets for a select set of keywords…

“Pixels”

This is “five kinds of awesome” awesome! Love it.

Yellow Vinyl Sofas

The interior decor and furniture are bright and colorful at the New York offices and global headquarters of advertising agency…

Soccer in Chinatown

Soccer (or “football”) in the park at Grand and Chrystie streets in Chinatown, downtown New York City.

Matisse as Street Art

Street-art homage on Eldridge St. to the famous painting “Dance (I)” (sometimes referred to as “The Dancers”) by French Fauvism…

Huggy Bear

We stumbled upon this large, white plush bear on Crosby Street in SoHo, near where the French-West African restaurant L’Orange…

Coffee Desk

From our City Life file  . . .  the desk of a producer at a New York advertising agency. What…

Bye Bye Tretorn High-Tops

We’ve been doing some spring cleaning. Among the stuff that’s headed for the rubbish been is pair of much-beloved Tretorn…

Smile

Lots of these paste-ups and stickers by “Joey”around town these days. They creep us out, but make us smile, too.…

Greatest Banksy Pranks Ever

Flavorpill has an excellent, thorough recap of the greatest Banksy pranks and controversies (“so far”). Great reading.

Primo Clown

More wheat-paste street-art awesomeness by artist Primo in downtown Manhattan. This life-size poster of a scary, AK-47 gun-toting clown can…

NYU Athletics

An New York University Athletics department van parked on Mercer Street in SoHo. LOVE the tiger / lion / panther…

Basketball Player Silhouettes

Nice wheat-paste street art with silhouettes of a basketball player shooting hoops. Or is it just somebody catching a ball.…

Logorama

Check out this Academy Award-nominated animated short film called “Logorama.” It’s clever in its use of logos to create a…

Primo Finest

More awesome life-size wheat-paste street art by artist Primo on Crosby St. (our favorite old cobblestone lane in way-downtown NYC)…

Shibuya Buddy

Another one of the cat-bunny-like creatures in sticker form that can be found in the street-art layer  around Harajuku and…

Hairstyle

Wheat-paste street-art on Wooster St. in SoHo. The black-and-white profile image is of a woman sporting a 1960’s-style hairdo. We…

Kicks

Wheat-paste street art at Prince Street and Broadway, towards Mercer St.,  in SoHo. This wonderful set of four colorful high-top…

Snowbound Graffiti Trucks

More graffiti trucks in New York Chinatown during the recent blizzards that rained an all-time record for monthly snowfall in…

Che Sucks

Sticker (see below) of iconic Argentine (or is Argentinian?) political activist and Cuba-revolutionary figure Che Guevara. The surface  message here…

Snow Day Graff Truck

We’ve been pummeled by snow showers here in New York City the past couple of days. The thick blanket of…

Standard Hotel Blur

A blurred pic of the Standard Hotel New York City cast in the late-afternoon light of “magic hour” (a.k.a., “golden…

Joey

Lots and lots of these “Joey CI” smiling-face paste-ups in various sizes have recently been appearing around downtown Manhattan, especially…

Going Rogue

One recent snowy morning on the way to the office, we caught this Rogue beer truck parked on Spring Street…

SoHo Synagogue

A synagogue is “coming soon” to SoHo, in downtown New York City. The future SoHo Synagogue is on Crosby Street,…

Thingy

Whatever this is, it’s art and it’s awesome. We call it “Thingy.” Notice that the eyes are Japanese kanji pictogram…

Rockstar Kitty

Sweet sticker of a cat in the trendy Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo, Japan. Not sure if the awesome “R” logo…

The Cobra Snake

Another shameless self-promo sticker in Harajuku, in Tokyo, Japan, by Los Angeles-based celebrity and party photographer Mark Hunter who goes…

Graff-Writer Rabbit

Check out this awesome street-art sticker of an illustrated bunny holding a spray-paint can. A graffiti artist rabbit? Sure, why…

A.P.C. Harajuku

The wonderful A.P.C. clothing store in Tokyo, Japan. This is just one of several shops throughout the Japanese capital and…

Sky Room

Some downtown New York City views of the Lower East Side (and Global Graphica HQ), Chinatown, Tribeca, SoHo, Nolita, Little…

Bunny Crapper

More total street-art awesomeness from Primo in the Lower East Side. This wheat-paste poster is too f-ing funny: A person…

Stickman Epic

A large street-art piece by Stickman on Eldridge St. in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, downtown New York City.…

Pick Your Poison

An enigmatic, simple and crudely-rendered image on Ludlow St., in the Lower East Side, drawn as if by a child…

Shepard Fairey x Smokey Robinson

Getting word from World Famous Design Junkies about a new street-art poster series called American Pioneers from Shepard Fairey and…

Hipster Puppies

A recent entry on the Tumblr blogscape: Hipster Puppies. Says what it is. Cute, funny, droll. Must see.

Eagle Cough

The exterior wall of vintage clothing shop 11 (Eleven) at the corner of Prince and Elizabeth streets has is commissioned…

Dayton Street Art

Who’d of thunk it: Dayton, Ohio has a street-art scene. It’s being nurtured by the Dayton Circus Creative Collective whose…

Comics Superhero Drawing

This is the work of a skilled illustrator that’s been pasted up as street art. The drawing is in a…

Ink

“Ink” stencil-on-wheat-paste street-art poster at the famously bombed-out spot on Wooster St. south of Grand, across from Deitch Projects annex…