JR & VHILS COLLAB

I remember Wooster Collective being one of my first favourite websites. In my final year of study my major project dealt with Graffiti and Street Art and it's influence on contemporary design and illustration. Wooster provided a fantastic platform for the research necessary. Current favourite on the site is this collaboration by JR and Vhils. Read more here and visit Wooster Collective here.

FIVE BLACK BINS

The brainchild of Cape Town agency Cow, this fun little collabo saw five local design teams consisting of individuals and agencies picking five random addresses in Woodstock. Am I Collective, Cow, Kronk, The President and Room 13 redesigned a bin each and above are the fruits of their labour, if you can call it that. Read more on the project here.

AIR BEAR

Okay it looks more canine than bear-like but this is without a doubt one of the COOLEST things I've found in recent weeks if not in the last long while. Joshua Allen Harris you're a genius!

Harris decided he'd make animals out of plastic bags and tie them to the ventilation grates of the subway, in what I presume must be New York. A train passes by underground, sends air rushing up and Voila! the creatures come to life. See pics and more info on Wooster Collective and the insane video of these beauties on Youtube here.

THE GUERILLA ART KIT

Was browsing through books at Exclusive Books, Pavilion the other night and found this handy little guide to getting creative. The Guerilla Art Kit is much more than that though. It's full of suggestions and ideas on how to get creative with the simplest things, and in doing so livening up your "hood". I found it utterly cool. Visit author Keri Smith's blog The Wish Jar here for some great ideas and check out her other titles.

NOTICE BY DAVID SHRIGLEY

Was digging through my mass of reference and found this. It made me laugh just as hard the second time round. Can't remember where I scooped this but probably off Wooster Collective which is easily the best street art and graffiti site online.

know hope

Quoted below are details on the artist as posted on wooster collective.

Know Hope is an artists from Tel-Aviv who creates handmade drawings out of paper and then lights them up with candles.

The artists tells us:

"What I like about the lanterns is that it deals with the frail temporary aspect of putting up art in street. If I take the best case scenario (that nobody takes the piece after a short while and there are no extreme winds or rain) then the longest life span of these pieces will be that of the candles, which is probably just a few hours. Therefore, when someone runs into it on the street they know that it was placed there not so long ago and they, by coincidence, got there in the small time frame that the piece was "active", hopefully giving them the feeling that it was placed there especially for them, and maybe guiding them, following them home and subtly lighting up their way."