In early May this year, 16 of the world’s most prolific experts in urban art and graphic design hit the highly reputed 1:AM gallery in San Francisco under the suitably-titled “Graphic Attack!” show.
The explosive group...
The Eurocultured Street Festival started in 2004 with the premise of bringing together all types of art forms from around the European continent. Based on a street in the heart of Manchester city centre in England, the festival...
08-07-2010
Liverpool’s Annual Youth Event Gets Injected with Colour
On the weekend of May 29th and 30th the UK’s largest free urban youth event, The Hub Festival in Liverpool played host to the hugely successful Combat Calligraphy jam....
Chaz Bojórquez has been an active artist for decades. His influence has been immense, not only through his work and technique but also through his attitude. Many would say that a thorough book about Chaz Bojórquez is well...
08-07-2010
The first, very limited edition instalment of Aura a few years ago was super impressive, so on hearing that Aura_2 was in the pipeline I was immediately looking forward to it. The good news is that Aura_2 does not disappoint....
02-07-2010
Tweaking one of their most popular styles, Sabre eyewear have teamed up with XLarge to give their style ‘The Dude’ some new life and colour. Three frames, two tinted lenses, one clear. All sport some sort of zebra stripe detail...
02-07-2010
Balancing her two sides–Tomboy Chic and Femme–Lanie Alabanza-Barcena aka Miss Lawn of LA’s Hellz Bellz has released the first of two styles for her Hellz Bellz x Vans Collaboration. The Hadley boot draws inspiration from...
02-07-2010
“Dirty” Donny Gillies was born with a brush in hand. He spent his early years drawing, skating and listening to punk rock. He cut his artistic teeth razorblade sharp drawing for some of rock music’s greatest bands. His art has...
02-07-2010
Following the widely publicised “Death of Polaroid” it appears that the brand has decided to re-visit its iconic range of instant film cameras. The cameras will take on a retro aesthetic and although slightly modified to meet...
02-07-2010
Say hello to the Fool’s Gold toy, the official rubber duck mascot of “Duck Sauce”, the musical side project of Canadian turntablist A-Trak and DJ Armand Van Helden. Manufactured by Celebriducks, the varsity jacket-clad toy was...
01-12-2009
Jason Jessee x Vans Syndicate
With Jason Jesse at the helm for this Vans Syndicate collection, the skater, gearhead and artist puts together this re-worked SK8-Hi model. Featuring a full grain, all-leather upper. The usual markings brought on by the signature Vans stripes are exchanged in favour of a deconstructed stitching method. To save breaking in, the back heel makes room for a deep notch. Like Jessee himself says, it’s “yesterday’s technology today”.
