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News, updates and jet-lagged commentary on my work as creative director, writer and consultant specialising in design, urbanism, open source methodologies, and other topics that seemed like a good idea at the time.
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Best Advertising Poster Hacks
The excellent poster hack turning the ad into a Photoshop palette, above, by Mr. Tailon, Baveux Prod., Kone & Epoxy in Berlin has been getting a lot of play in recent days, and rightly so. Seeing it reminded me of the transformative power that a good poster/advertising hack holds, so I thought I’d take the [...]
Urban Play Focus 03: Poland’s Truthtag
Today’s preview of an Urban Play artist brings Poland’s Truthtag into focus.
As is the case with putting together any show, there is an ebb and flow to the list of artists as work progresses, but within the Urban Play roster, Truthtag has always had a core position in the show and its larger concept of [...]
Urban Play Focus 02: Madrid’s SpY
Today’s preview of an Urban Play artist brings Madrid’s SpY into the light.
The thing I’ve always liked about SpY is the width and breadth of his work and media. From anchoring glow sticks into the pavement to turn a traffic arrow into a firing spaceship (above), to simply attaching a Pac-Man shape onto a bus [...]
Joshua Allen Harris inflatable sculptures in stop global warming ad
There’s been a buzz on the internet today about Joshua Allen Harris’s inflatable sculptures being featured in an upcoming ad for the Environmental Defense Fund and their stop global warming campaign. I’m always on guard for seeing street artists’ work being ripped off by The Man advertising agencies without due credit, so I’m very pleased [...]
Urban Play Focus 01: Gilberto Esparza – Urban Parasites
As part of the lead-up to the launch of the Urban Play project I am doing with Droog Design in Amsterdam, I will be writing a series of focus pieces on the urban intervention artists and designers I have selected to take part in the project, and who are working at the edge of creativity [...]
Mark Jenkins in Barcelona: the story
photo by Mark Jenkins
Needless to say, I’m a huge fan of Mark Jenkins‘ work. What always impresses me about his body of work is not only the quality of the finished pieces, but the way in which he integrates them into the urban fabric. His storkers can often be found playing with and in the [...]
Lisbon Street Art Tribute to Pessoa
Photo Credit: Joao Pina for The New York Times
The New York Times just published a fine article about the dilemma facing Portugal that a collection of the famed Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa’s papers might be sold and leave the country. What drew me to the article was the fact that it was on Pessoa, for [...]
New Work From CutUp
Last night CutUp installed their latest batch of work throughout London. For those of you not (yet) familiar with CutUp, they specialise in physically remixing the urban visual, taking down billboards, cutting them up into pixels, and re-installing them to create new images out of the original source material. While my personal favourite medium of [...]
At the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Paris
A day spent judging the next gen of architectural thinking in Paris.
Preview of Urban Play: The Exhibition
With Milan just around the corner, here’s a preview of the text going out to publicise Urban Play: The Exhibition
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