Urban Stage Sao Paulo sponsored by Smart is the natural evolution of Barcelona’s International Outdoor Urban Art Exhibition.

Art collective and magazine Rojo asked the city’s Urban Development Department to allow them to help spice up drab concrete structures across the city, the project to paint 11 concrete structures including air-vent columns and blank walls across São Paulo over a few weeks.

Selected artists create site specific architecture-color projects on massive concrete elements in different locations of the city were traffic is very dense, with the objective to make them more colorful. Nuria, Tony de Marco/Superblast and Eltono got on scaffolds to paint, while MWM Graphics, Ovni and Tofer scaled and drew their work but handed it off to collaborators to carry out.

These pieces will remain as part of the city’s permanent urban landscape.

Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a candid look at the underground poster culture in United States. This unique documentary examines the creative spirit that drives these indie graphic artists. They pick through the dregs of America’s schizophrenic culture and piece them back together. What you end up with is a caricature of the black and bloated heart that pulses greed through the US economy.

The artists push further into the pulp to grab the attention of passersby, plastering art that’s both vulgar and intensely visceral onto the gnarled surfaces of the urban landscape. The film gives us intimate look at some of the giants of this modern subculture. Outside of their own circle, they’re virtually unknown. But within their ranks they make up an army of bareknuckle brawlers, publicly arguing the aesthetic merits of octopus imagery and hairy 70s porn stars.

They’ve created their own visual language for describing the spotty underbelly of western civilization and they’re not shy about throwing it in the face of polite society. Along the way, they manage to create posters that are strikingly obscene, unflinchingly blasphemous and often quite beautiful. Yaghoobian shows these artists for what they are: the vivisectionists of America’s morbidly obese consumer culture.

The Festival provides a platform for the creative talent at work and creates a unique opportunity to visit over 200 specific events and activities reflecting the diversity of world-class design talent in the capital. It’s London international mix, together with people and businesses working with such skill across all design disciplines, that makes London such a special world centre for design.

The London Design Festival is the UK’s biggest annual celebration of design and reflects London’s status as the world creative hubIt is made up of the widest possible range of design disciplines, all of who prosper in the city. These new ideas and activities make each Festival dynamic, different and uniquely London. Supported by government, the design sector, and leading businesses, the Festival offers a platform for the best design talent.

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Also you can download The London Design Festival guide, click here

In the beginning 55DSL was an experimental line for Diesel. After 5 years operating under Diesel, the brand became an independent business unit, and moved from Italy to Balerna, Switzerland. Where it stayed for six years (until 2005), when it moved back again to Italy. Andrea RossoThe current Creative Director of 55DSL is Andrea Rosso, son of Diesel creator Renzo Rosso.

55DSL is a bridging brand between urban culture and fashion. The core market for the brand is late teens and twenty-something urban men and women. According to the brand website, the brand is there to appeal to fashion-minded, young people, interested or involved in active sports, who have a DIY attitude.

The 15th anniversary of 55DSL has resulted in a series of different collaborations for the brand. Having seen Diesel and adidas partner up on a line of denim, 55DSL reaps the benefits of the relationship with this adidas Originals Nizza. The shoe’s simple canvas upper is adorned with trademark 55DSL colorways including blue and red with the package completed via a handful of different lace choices.

You can win a pair of 55DSL Adidas Original making part of the online contest, all you have to do is post an old picture of you in the 1994 on the 55dsl hall of shame. Can you do it? To know more, click here

Even if you don’t have any idea who Che Guevara is, you probably know what he looks like. His face has graced everything from t-shirts to bikinis to cigarette packs to beer. You know he’s a symbol of … something. But you’re just not quite sure what.

So, who is Che Guevara? And how did that picture of him become so damned famous? Those questions, and other issues, are addressed in the excellent documentary Chevolution.

In the documentary, producer/director Trisha Ziff and director Luis Lopez explore the Che phenomenon from all angles, including the revolutionary’s early life, his fateful encounter with Castro, the Cuban revolution he helped make happen, to his life trying to foment revolutions in other countries. But it also examines how he crossed paths with photographer Alberto Korda, the fashion photographer/photojournalist who took the famous picture of Guevara that was the basis for the icon we know today.

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‘Higher Powers’ is an innovative collaboration between Musician Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Producer and Mixologist Adrian Sherwood, and Artist Peter Harris.

Legendary Jamaican musician and reggae Pioneer Lee Scratch Perry hardly needs an introduction. Grammy-award winning Perry reigned supreme over the Golden Age of 70’s reggae, writing and performing some of the most seminal albums of the seventies, such as ‘Super Ape’ and ‘Roast Fish, Collie Weed and Corn Bread’. Peter Harris is an Artist and Filmmaker who has collaborated with iconic musicians such as Siouxsie Sioux, The Stranglers and David Bowie. Adrian Sherwood is co-founder of Carib Gems and Pressure Sounds, and his most well-known label is On-U Sound Records where he worked with Prince Far I. Sherwood began working with Perry in 1986, and together they produced the classic album “Time Boom X De Devil Dead”.

Together they made some truly visionary artworks, based on Harris’s drawings around themes as; destiny, fate, luck and doubt. In an explosive collaboration between Artist and Musician, Perry lent his own visionary input to Harris’s graphic, accomplished pen and pencil drawings. The result is a series of one-off artworks produced in a similar way to the automatic drawings of the Surrealists, with a hint of Primitivism, the magic of Voodoo, and the spirit of urban graffiti Artists.

Peter Harris web site

Flying Kebab is an independent internet video serie featuring Nando, a photographer who passes one year searching for his inheritance in Lebanon.

Outsizing the video world, Nando’s adventure continues on his flickr and twitter, where you can receive current updates on what he’s doing around Beirut.

#1 Flying Kebab - Pilot from Matheus Siqueira on Vimeo.

Flying kebab site

Pixo is the result of doing “pixação”, a kind of graffiti/tag original from Sao Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil, that exists since the early 80’s. it has a very peculiar style and it’s an illegal form of expression, made mostly by people from the marginalized areas that got nothing to loose and very little to expect.

Their main goal is the “ibope”. To achieve the pixo’s “ibope”, one must have their name written everywhere, in the higher and most difficult public spaces. When they’re successful, it hurts a society that sees it as a dirty thing, nonsense angry and crime.

Pixo, a documentary about São Paulo’s pixação, directed by João Wainer with art direction from the artist Alexandre Orion. It’s very ironic, and even funny, that one of the most hated expressions in Brazil now is in the same place of contemporary artists, as Beatriz Milhazes, the most valuable Brazilian contemporary artist alive, and who once did the center walls.

The video is in portuguese and it is just available in french subtitules, but still worth to watch.

Andrew Pommier has established himself as a highly sought after modern artist whose resume has the power to impress the greatest of skeptics. His client list includes such companies as Nike, Rossignol, Virgin Mobile, Asahi, MTV Australia, RVCA Clothing, Stussy, Fourstar Clothing, Girl Skateboards, Toy Machine Skateboards and most notably, adidas who released a special “Andrew Pommier” series shoe.

Andrew does a lot of work for corporate clients, but the heart of his art is still his paintings. When you look at an Andrew Pommier painting you can’t help but be captivated by its simplicity and intrigue, and the narrative that it generates. His work has a distinctively Canadian feel, featuring broad landscapes, trees and wildlife. The characters and their bizarre animal-head costumes insist on the imagination and stir memories of youth and feelings of freedom and fun. The characters of the paintings are generated from sketches that Andrew is always working away on.

Andrew Pommier website