Grad Van

Colorful and well-executed “Grad” graffiti-art tag on an Econoline-type van parked on Prince Street, across from the Apple Store in…

Spray-Can Man

Classic Shepard Fairey street art on Wooster St. in SoHo, New York City. The anthropomorphic spray can in this wheat-paste…

Sneaker

Left-foot high-stop sneaker wheat-paste poster with blinding Day-Glo yellow-green color background, Wooster Street, SoHo, in downtown New York City. There’s…

Born to Run, Style to Burn

Haculla wheat-paste street art on Wooster Street in SoHo, in downtown New York City. This artwork riffs on iconic imagery…

Batman and Legos

Awesome street art painting on a store-front roller shutter near the Landmark Sunshine Cinema on E. Houston St. in New…

Sociability

Here’s a wonderful, fresh wheat-paste street-art poster by A.S.V.P. in downtown New York City. We’ve been really digging A.S.V.P.’s graphic…

Grand Obey

A big, meaty, classic “Obey” / “Giant Has a Posse” wheat-paste street-art poster by artist-designer and all-around bona fide visual…

Terry Richardson

Photographer Terry Richardson has recently started a new Tumblr photo blog called Terry’s Diary, and it’s fuckin’ awesome. Richardson is…

Street Gallery

Shots of black-and-white wheat-paste posters on Broome Street comprise a virtual and ephemeral portrait photography gallery of pop-culture figures. The…

BNE on Tokyo Signage

The global sticker phenom that is BNE is ubiquitous in the hipster hoods of the Japanese capital. Here’s an amusing…

Brown & Pink

Wheat-paste street art in Japan: This rabbit-like creature character can be found everywhere in Shibuya, Harajuku and Naka-Meguro, in Tokyo.…

Reykjavik Jesus

Graffiti and street art painting of Jesus Christ on an underground parking garage wall in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland.…

“Stencialist”

The “Stencialist” is a clever portmanteau of stencil and specialist. Here we see the stencialist stencil-paste-up mash-up in Harajuku, the…

“D” Cap Face

The “D” on the cap that hides a face of a dude wearing headphones. We found this crafty Sharpie marker…

Tokyo Graff Art

Basic tag-quality graffiti art on a small building in near Tokyo’s hip and fashionable Naka-Meguro and Shibuya neighborhoods.

Cupco Tokyo

Bride of Frankenstein sticker by Cupco in Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyo View

An awesome view of the gray-haze city looking towards Shibuya from the Mori Art Museum at Roppongi Hills.

Primo in LoSoNo Town

More freshness from Primo on Broome Street. This life-size wheat-paste of a man with a dog’s head holding a pistol…

Masamichi Katayama

We love the style and work of Masamichi Katayama and his company, called Wonderwall, one of the foremost contemporary Japanese…

Marilyn

From the mysterious Parisian artist(s) that is PIMAX, here’s a color stencil of the Hollywood acting legend Marilyn Monroe and…

Macbar Nolita

Awesome architectural design and space for the tiny Macbar, a mac-and-cheese specialty restaurant in New York City.

Miami Colors 101

Colorful low-rise buildings of 101 Exhibit gallery space in the Miami Design District, home to many galleries, clubs, studios and…

Girl at Bess

Whimsical illustration wheat-paste street art in front of the Bess shop on Lafayette St. in SoHo, in downtown Manhattan, NYC.

Nagel-esque

Does anyone remember Patrick Nagel? He was an illustrator and graphic artist who created an sexy, iconic graphical style of…

Harajuku Graff

Here’s an image of a massive graffiti tag on a shop’s roller-shade in Tokyo, Japan. We like the color combination…

Lafuma Sign

We love the design of this branded signage for Lafuma Furniture in Harajuku, Tokyo.

What?

“What” skull street-art in the Harajuku neighborhood, in Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyo Landing

We thought we’d kick off a new series of Tokyo street-art postings with this a video of a 747 jumbo…

Lafayette & Grand

The structures at the corner of Lafayette and Grand streets in SoHo, in downtown New York City, were recently torn…

Down to Earth

We love this wheat-paste street-art poster on Broome St. in SoHo. There’s a retro-Communist aesthetic evoked from this image of…

Goddess

We love this street art painting of a cute, Greek goddess in Psyrri, in Athens, Greece.

Stage on Wheels

From our City Life file: We stumbled upon this portable stage — a kind of bandshell on wheels — parked…

Dive Reykjavik

Here (and here, too) are some more kick-arse street art from our Iceland series …

Global Graphica on Twitter

Global Graphica is on Twitter. In fact, we have been providing regular updates via our tweets for  many months now.…

Obey Printing Press

Super-fresh work from Shepard Fairey (of Obama poster, Obey / Giant Has a Posse, and Swindle Magazine fame) on Ludlow…

Vandal Edit

A man paints over graffiti ona storefront roller-shutter in the Psyrri neighborhood of Athens, Greece.

Primo Primo

Awesome recent wheat-paste street-art work by Primo on Crosby Street in downtown New York City. This street — a narrow,…

Define …

Street art in Athens, Greece: “Define, Demilitarize, Deny” written in an original hand-painted style next to an image of a…

Janis

Haculla is among our group of favorite wheat-paste street-art creators working the downtown New York City  landscape. Here’s some recent…

Apartment

There’s some cool street art on the side of this apartment building in Psyrri neighborhood, in Athens, Greece. The nabe…

Scary

Ghostly stencil street-art in downtown Athens, Greece.

Manga Girl

Here’s a roller-shutter painted with a Japanese-style manga-like image of a cute, doe-eyed girl in Monastiraki, in Athens, Greece.

Frankenstencil

Stencil on a concrete-stucco building piller in Psyrri, in Athens, Greece.

White Box

The White Box gallery (or “WBX”) on Broome Street in Chinatown part of the Lower East Side often changes the…

Balls and Stripes

At Lincoln Road Mall,  the popular outdoor pedestrianized street in South Beach, in Miami, art and bold architectural design define…

Club Event Postings

Sweet little collection of concert and club-event posters in downtown Athens, Greece.

2T

We’re having a little trouble decoing the alphanumerics in this graffiti tag in central Athens, Greece. It looks like it…

Lepore

Vandalized black-and-white image of famed downtown New York City fashion and transexual icon Amanda Lepore, whose claim to famed includes…

Gunslinga’

Life-size wheat-paste street-art poster of a crazed dude slinging two pistols on Allen Street in the Lower East Side, downtown…

Enjoy American Dream

Large “Enjoy American Dream” sticker in downtown New York City. This is one of a series of stickers with various…

Maupin Signage

We often walk by Lehmann Maupin, a beautiful art gallery space on Chrystie Street in the Lower East Side. (There’s…

Don’t Trip Kate

“Don’t trip Kate” wheat-paste street art by Haculla in downtown New York City. The “Kate” is super-slim model Kate Moss.…

WESC Party

From the City Life file here at Global Graphica, here’s a picture of drunk-looking DJ at the WESC  (We are…

El Coucho

El Coucho wheatpaste in SoHo. This street-art work reminds us of contemporary Mexican folk art.

Athenian Graff Parking

Colorful graffiti street art in a small parking lot between apartment buildings in Athen’s vibrant Psyrri neighborhood.

Super Happy Friends

The Super Happy Friends stencil in central Reykjavik, Icleand. Who are these guys? We’ve heard the SHF are responsible for…

Meeting Point

We love this sign at Reykjavik’s Keflavik International Airport. We love the fact that somebody thought about setting aside a…

Crosby Skull

Exquisite skull-themed illustration wheat-paste street art on Crosby Street in SoHo, New York City.

Street Art Pets

Athens, like many Greek urban areas, is a city full of stray dogs and cats, so it’s fitting that we…

Tsisa

Dope graff by Tsisa on a narrow side street in the Plaka neighborhood, directly below the south face of the…

LIFO Athens

We recently returned from Athens, Greece, where we surprised at how vibrant the street art scene in the Greek capital.…

Zimi in Psyri

Street art on a roller-shutter in the action-packed Psyri neighborhood of central Athens, Greece. There are heaps and heaps of…

Group

Wicked street art in Athens, Greece, mate.

Greece is the Word

Global Graphica was a little quiet for the better part of a couple of weeks while we were in Greece…

Oyvey Bloomberg

This example of sticker street art on Delancey Street, in New York City’s Lower East Side / SoHo area, does…

DUMBO Dain

More awesome wheat-paste street art posters by the artist Dain next to Pedro’s Mexican restaurant near York St. Station in…

Old Lady DUMBO

Detailed street art paint-up in DUMBO, Brooklyn, of an old lady right next to Pedro’s Mexican restaurant on York Street.…

Couch the Slouch

Red-and-gold “Couch the Slouch” bird posting on Broome Street, Lower East Side, NYC. We heart the color combination and flat…

Brtiney Spears Street Art

Artist Haculla strikes Broome Street with a pair of wheat-paste street art posters, one of which does the mash-up of…

Tokyo Bullet-Train View Video

Mesmerizing, hypnotic clip of Tokyo urban scenery and architecture speeding by as seen and captured on HD Flip-cam video by…

Faces in DUMBO

Large wheat-paste street art of illustrated black-and-white faces near next to the Mexican restaurant (we forget the name) near York…

Gas-Mask Nudes

Torn street art posters in DUMBO, Brooklyn of three nude women wearing gas masks. Creepy, yet intriguing.

Aung San Suu Kyi Street Art

Large wheat-paste street art by artist Shepard Fairey (Obey / Swindle / Giant Has a Posse) on Broome Street, between…

Guitar Dude

Crosby Street in SoHo, in New York City, is a virtual gallery of street art unto itself. This life-size painted…

Os Gemeos

The Brazilian street-art superstars Os Gemeos, “The Twins,” recently painted this massive mural in Nolita / NoHo / Lower East…

Smart Anarchy

Pix of a cool tag-painted van parked in Chinatown, in New York City. “Smart” is painted as graffiti on its…

Nolita Abstract

These color-and-shape abstract wheat-paste street-art posters have been popping up all over lower Manhattan again in the past couple of…

Rulet Le Este

“Rulet Le Este” wheatpaste street-art poster of reindeer with gold-adorned antlers, somewhere in downtown New York City. Hmm … hmm.

Face

Face wheat-paste poster in DUMBO, Brooklyn.