Nardstar, aka Nadia Fisher is a South African street art based in the beautiful ocean-side city of Cape Town – my home town. This talented female street artist combines African-style geometric designs with Westernised graphic design styles to create bold, joyful street art murals that convey the artist’s love of life and her country. Inspired […]
Floe Florence Mousset is a French artist who has a background in traditional graphic design art. She has created many graphic designs that have been used in adverts, on t-shirts and tote bags, on coffee cups and skateboards. At times, Floe Mousset has turned her hand to creating street art murals that feature big, busty […]
Everybody knows what a smiley face is, but few know where it comes from. The smiley face is a pop art icon that was designed by commercial artist Harvey Ball in 1963. It has been used on merchandise like t-shirts, mugs, hats and pens and it has found its way into chat messenger apps in […]
For a quarter of a century, the 1984 cult film Ghostbusters has delighted kids and adults around the world with its quirky humor and weird but lovable characters. Many of the characters have had fan art created for them, but the green flying ghost, Slimer, has found a new life after death as a kind […]
José Flávio Audi is a Brazilian artist based in Sao Paulo. He works in a variety of art forms, including tattoo art and street art. In this article I’m going to introduce you to his street art murals that are based on geometric mandala designs. Audi doesn’t just feature mandalas and geometric flowers as stand-alone […]
Here is an artist who believes in the power of the people. He believes in the power of community to change their own standard of living, and in the power of the collective to transform the world into a better place. What he doesn’t believe in is governments, which he views as essentially corrupt, stating that […]
Ekundayo was born in Hawaii in 1983. When he was still just a little boy, his parents split up and his father smuggled him out of the state. For years, his mother searched in vain for him. When Ekundayo was 11, his father passed away from lung cancer, leaving the young boy to live with […]
Soika the Vomiter, also known as Soika John McVomter, is a Filipino who is based in Cebu. While Cebu might seem like a tropical paradise to outsiders, there are many locals who know only too well that beneath the touristy veneer lie a lot of slum areas. And in these slum areas… Art. Street art […]
Wild Drawing is a street artist who was born in Bali, Indonesia, but is now based in Athens, Greece. His love of painting murals has taken him all over the world, however, to places like Sweden, England, Malta, Germany, France and Finland. Some of his paintings are created in urban settings such as warehouse districts […]
Director Shinsuke Tatsukawa introduces us to four influential Japanese street artists; ESOW, AIKO, and the duo KAMI & SASU (aka HITOTZUKI). Each of the artists have their own individual design style, based on the emotions that they would like to express to the world. For some of the graffiti artists, it’s not about communicating with people through their […]