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EL&ABE is a sustainable design collaboration between Eleanor Stephens and Anna Garforth. They seek to “work with natural, living materials on a 3D scale, hoping to encourage people to listen to nature’s voice and find inspiration in it.” Their first project is Mossenger, beautiful living “graffiti” words on walls.

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PingMag has an interview with ZEVS, the French street artist whose street art and graffiti “distorts the logos” of corporate brands. “Visual kidnapping is like entering an interactive game: If the brand on the billboard kidnaps the attention of the public with the purpose of consumer demand, I reverse the situation and I kidnap the model on the poster and I demand a ransom of 500,000 Euros from the brand. This sum represents the symbolic price of an advertising campaign for the brand.”

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I love it when street style and tech come together as does with this KRINK laptop sleeve by Arkitip, a project of Incase “aimed at rtistically embellished Apple products to users who have an appreciation for the creative arts and technology.” Krink pens were developed by graffiti writer and artist, Craig “KR” Costello out of a variety of homemade inks and markers for use in both street and studio environments. “KR’s products gained notoriety by their association with his work in the street, the studio, and by his dripping ink aesthetics.” Available at $79.95 for MacBook and MacBook Pro 15 In.

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Stencil Revolution, “collectively recontructing the urban canvas.”

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Witness the incredible ”Muto, an ambiguous animation painted on public walls” by BLU. [via briancaldwell on twitter]

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"Drivers hustling to the city’s bustling North Beach neighborhood through the Broadway Tunnel Tuesday got a pleasant surprise—etched into the grimy walls lining the roadway was a tranquil urban forest. The unique mural was created by British-based artist Paul “Moose” Curtis using a technique called reverse graffiti or clean tagging. With the aid of San Francisco police and public works officials, Curtis spent the night blasting away at the years of grime with a high-powered water cannon.” You can see more photos here by Flickr user, dennis. [via jamesjyu on twitter]

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UPDATE: Wired reports that ClearChannel says the Skullphone ads are not a hack, but a paid ad.

“Southern California is all abuzz the hijacking of digital billboards. Silenced Majority Portal, reports that last Thursday, 18 year old graffiti artist Skullphone hacked into 10 of ClearChannel’s digital billboards in Hollwood, Culver City, and elsewhere around LA, putting up his logo in between the more normal ads.” [via textually]

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Photo copyright johanna at Flickr

The work of graffiti artist, Banksy (Robert Banks) is bold and subversive. He’s made a name with large street stencils and graffiti in England. He’s also a successful artist selling work for thousands of pounds, but his identity has been “fiercely guarded”. Apparently, a photo has emerged that perhaps shows the artist at work according to this BBC article. Whether or not we know what he looks like isn’t important. His work is everywhere. See the Flickr Banksy group for over 4,500 photos of his street art taken by people.

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It makes me feel creative just looking at this cute sticker pack by Jeff Claassen. All stickers are screenprinted with high quality ink on adhesive vinyl. And, it’s only $6 for one pack!

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