Auch wir wurden eingeladen zur Eröffnungsshow von Alex Diamond in der Nice/Nice Exhibition Space in Hannover und ließen uns nicht zweimal bitten.

Nette Atmosphäre, interessante Gespräche und vor allem tolle Kunst... Das war das Ergebnis dieser kleinen Reise. Und obwohl der Künstler nicht selbst vor Ort war, gehört es doch zu seinem Image, trafen wir die Alex Diamond Mining in Person, die uns über Künstler und Kunst aufklärte...

Danke, we like!

Künstler: Alex Diamond (USA)

Titel: Into the Night

Alex Diamond ist nicht greifbar als Person und als Künstler schwer zu kategorisieren. Er ist mehr Phantasie als Realität. Alex Diamond erscheint immer als ein neuer und anderer Charakter in jeder seiner Shows.

Weder eingeschränkt durch einen Lebenslauf, eine prägende Ausbildung oder eine explizite Technik oder einer Stilrichtung, erfindet sich Alex Diamond immer wieder neu.

In der Ausstellung "Into the Nicht" zeigt Alex Diamond neue Holzschnitzereien.

Für mehr Fotos klick hier.

With 2010 drawing to a close, it\'s raining end-of-year reviews ... and awards!

It all started with a love of art, curiosity and plenty of know-how: in March 2009, the adidas Urban Art Guide - the world\'s first ever mobile street art guide - saw the light of day and took to the streets. Accompanied by a website with more in-depth info and plenty of updates, the smartphone app introduced lovers of urban art to some of the best - and hidden - examples with a loving and detailed exploration of Berlin street art.

A year later, almost to the day, Hamburg became the second German city to get the adidas Urban Art Guide treatment, unearthing all those hidden - and ephemeral - gems to be found within the cityscape.

Taking stock of the past two years, we\'ve had two fantastic launch events, a great party in Berlin (together with the Stroke Urban Art Pair), a continually growing Facebook community and many, many app downloads every single day. So, the future beckons and the globe is the limit - after all, street art can be found in every corner of the world!

Bridging the gap between the status quo and global coverage, our website www.urbanartguide.com exposes great street art from around the world. It is regularly updated with newly found treasures submitted by users or our own experts.

With this in mind, the FWA picked our adidas Urban Art Guide as its App of the Day.

Thanks a million for your support!

Exploring the fine line between street art and fashion, XOOOOX takes his fleeting beauties to Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg - and beyond. Only recently, he braved the Channel to spruce up East London with his impeccably styled models.

Well, before you book a ticket and pack your camera (or a scraper for clandestine removal, naughty you), there's an easier way to enjoy a piece of XOOOOX in the comforts of your own home.

The artist's gallery, Circleculture, now offers a limited print run of XOOOOX‘ iconic images!

XOOOOX info

Snap up your favourite

Head in the clouds? Crank up that childhood imagination! When we were young, we all eyed those fluffy, airborne receptacles of moisture with boundless wonder, discovering dragons, palaces, candy canes or choo-choo trains in their billowing, amorphous shapes.

So, why not take this principle further - and translate it to our more "grown-up" and immediate surroundings? All of a sudden, we find ourselves surrounded by watchful eyes, peeking from a nearby power outlet, that house across the street or the washing machine controls.

Intrigued? Then get inspired by http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/ ... or mail in your own "observers"!

Head in the clouds? Crank up that childhood imagination! When we were young, we all eyed those fluffy, airborne receptacles of moisture with boundless wonder, discovering dragons, palaces, candy canes or choo-choo trains in their billowing, amorphous shapes.

So, why not take this principle further - and translate it to our more "grown-up" and immediate surroundings? All of a sudden, we find ourselves surrounded by watchful eyes, peeking from a nearby power outlet, that house across the street or the washing machine controls.

Intrigued? Then get inspired by http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/ ... or mail in your own "observers"!

The artworks of Michael Aaron Williams are often there where you do not expect them.

Usually you can see the kids leaning against a bridge pier or picking flowers from a street corner. Althoug you don't expect them,

Aaron Williams places his figures where you can definitely find them
and sends his message: Do not look away!Take care of those who need your help!
We think it's right and we should remind us more often! Thanks to Aaron Williams, we are fans already...

We had a great time, with you guys: Celebrating the urban Art Guide @ Station- Berlin! Thanks 2 you! Thanks 2 Stroke!

In part 3 of the 5-piece video series Martha Cooper talks about her current art project in her hometown of Baltimore.

Martha Cooper talking about making money out of street art and showing her favourite adidas sneakers!

We met Martha Cooper in New York and got an interview. She talked about her passion for street art and showed us her sticker collection from all over the world. Enjoy the first part of our interviews of Martha Cooper.

Whoever has a close watch on the iTunes Store has already noticed that our app has already been available with the Hamburg city option for a couple of weeks now.
Today we finally celebrate the official launch of the Urban Art Guide Hamburg with a nice little press walk and an even nicer party in cooperation with Vice magazine.

One thing's for sure: Hamburg's worth a while and we're uber glad to now have the opportunity to show all street art fans great and versatile art pieces in the 'northern capital' of Germany - very smoothly via the app, of course.

You can download the app here.

My first piece latitude: 55.814079 longitude: -4.255206 autor: Boxfresh

Boxfresh

Be creative...

An interview with Dan Ericson aka The Signtologist who inspires us (and quite a number of celebs) with his very literal approach to 'street' art by painting old, discarded street signs. Luckily for us there's a certain micro-blogging thing called Twitter that allowed us to get in touch with the Denver-based artist (follow him @THESIGNTOLOGIST). He was kind enough to answer our e-mail interview below. Thank you to the artist (for answering so quickly and waiting so patiently)! >> check out the interview

The things we find on the web again and again and of course major artists like Os Gemeos strongly prove it: Street art has a very hearty home in Brazil. So get ready for a lot of differenty styles and vividly colored murals in this small book.

Get it here.

Very insightful book with impressive pictures about graffiti in Oaxaca, Mexico where graffiti became a way of achieving social justice - mainly supported by women. Very interesting to look beyond one's own nose every once in a while!

The book is available here.

Looking very far east we recognize that there's a very vivid, say explosive, street art thing going on in Japan which this book explores thoroughly.

Available here.

If you would want to prepare for the UAG launch in Hamburg you could perfectly use this book about Hamburg's street art world. So... why are we talking woulds?

Just order it here.

Let's talk classics. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Martha Cooper's Subway Art we have no trouble speaking of a true classic. Back to the roots with bombed subway trains and New York of the early 80ies. How do you say? Must-have!

Available here for example.

Blek le Rat, old dog. The French stencil-artist has probably worked the streets when we were but a mere idea in the heads of our parents. Which is why he well deserves a place in our book shelves.

Buy the book here.

French photographer JR impresses us again and again with his large-scale photo-installations all around the world. This book is about his project "Women are Heroes".

Purchase the book here for example.

Beautiful photo book that captivates us with great pictures of known and unknown artists from all over the world and a teensy bit of text. By now there's also a part II to love.

Both parts are available here.

By now more or less a classic of all street art books. With beautiful pictures of internationally renowned Banksy's artworks. Even my mum has added this to her collection. No kidding!

See the publication house here.

On The Run regularly publishes a new book in their series focusing on one aspect of street art, a certain artist or a location. All in all a pretty impressive and interesting collection to show off with.

All publications so far can be found here.

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