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Which Hotel Features These Artists?
Yesterday, as part of a subversive campaign to take back advertising locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, the Public Art Campaign had local artists, including Mint and Serf, seen here, paint over ads. Mint and Serf also painted their work in a hotel recently. Can you tell me the name of the hotel?
Let's Go Trend Hunting: Wordy Furniture and Graffitied Home Finds
This month, at Paris's trade interior design show Maison & Objet, UK designer Andrew Martin, who's known for his Union Jack motif furniture, showed off some other, bold prints, including this chair upholstered in designer Martin Waller’s new God Bless America fabric.
Martin and Waller aren't the first (or the last) designers to jump on the typography and graffiti bandwagon. There are a lot of really great interior design finds out there right now that display words, graffiti, or a combination of both.
Roundup: Alternative Graffiti
Graffiti, the process of scratching, scrawling, painting, or marking images or letters in any manner on property, has existed since the Roman Empire, and has evolved into much more than simple scratch marks. Some people think of it as vandalism (defacing property), others as art, and for others it's a movement of its own. You can see from a recent CitizenSugar poll about British graffiti artist Banksy, the consensus is largely divided.
In the News: Sofa Studies
Faced with renovating a crumbly brick townhouse in Manhattan's East Village, and building a home for her children that they could participate, ex Kate Spade partner Pamela Bell abandoned the tendency to create a "trophy home" and invited her daughter's 7th grade class to graffiti her John Derian muslin sofa with fabric markers. The result is an example of ideal imperfection, the kind that's engaging because of its flaws, that wins you over because it can't be reproduced. Bell's home is full of furnishings with this laissez-faire attitude towards design — spray-painted bittersweet from the farmers market for a chandelier, a pile of suitcases for a side table, walls embellished with Marimekko stickers, and a chalkboard-covered fridge — and it's all the better for it.
Cool Idea: Green Graffiti
I'm so grateful to Inhabitat for bringing me news of eco-minded street artist Edina Tokodi. This Brooklyn artist makes site-specific moss installations that sometimes appear in the shape of animals, and other times in fuzzy outcrops of green on streetlights and other urban objects.
In her artist's statement, she says:
I think that our distance from nature is already a cliché.
Love It or Hate It? Graffiti Sofa
Designer Teruhiro Yanagihara's new “Graffiti” products explore the concept of “dirty” with products including this sofa. When people touch it or scratch it they leave their marks on the surface of the sofa. If you get tired of your friends tagging your sofa, you can erase the marks by ironing the cloth.
Midday Muse: Gorgeous Graffiti
I love graffiti when it's well done, like this beautiful little bird that was painted on a plywood fence along an inner city construction site.
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Love It or Hate It? Chalkboard Graffiti Storage Bench
I think I'm over the chalkboard trend. This Chalkboard Graffiti Storage Bench (out of stock), which is made of erasable washable vinyl and comes with white chalk, has just gone too far. I guess in a way this product is innovative, but since when does leaving notes and jotting reminders for yourself have to come at the expense of aesthetics?
Love It or Hate It? Wedding Graffiti
Instead of wasting paper on placecards, menus, or programs, the company Wonderful Graffiti suggests these wall stickers as an option. I think it's a lovely way to make your wedding more eco chic. What do you think?
Midday Muse: Reverse Graffiti
Sao Paulo, Brazil, artist Alexandre Orion finds a creative use for auto pollution in his "reverse graffiti." Instead of laying down paint, Orion's art is revealed as he scrapes the black soot off the walls of tunnels, overpasses, and other areas where soot and pollution accumulate.
How could you use this gritty, urban image for inspiration?
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