There's no question about it: Brazil's right on the money when it comes to graphic design and graffiti. With motion graphics, though, the due is still locked up in a dark drawer in accounts payable somewhere. Outside of the few…
Continue Reading →Talk about cutting edge; it's rare to find a graphic designer who goes one step beyond the tablet-and-pen rigamarole, but the Brazilian Carlo Giovani and his team of illustrators and graphic designers gladly pull out the scissors and paper for…
Continue Reading →Sao Paolo's streets and skylines are free of ads thanks to the Clean City legislation, but that hasn't stopped local artists from doing what they can to spread other kinds of messages. This little piece of artwork pulled from the…
Continue Reading →SneakersBR -- a Brazilian site hyping all things sneakers -- just launched their first collection of tees paying homage to the very subject that happily consumes the attention span (and likely a matching-sized chunk of the bank accounts) of its…
Continue Reading →From time to time, I come across an artist who blows my mind in a way I can't totally explain and there's no way to deal with it except getting other people amped about on him/her on a much grander…
Continue Reading →A few years ago, two backpacks, each carrying a 350-page blank book, video camera and a T-shirt, were sent off by Barcelona creative studio Vasava in totally opposite directions to artists and groups in 35 cities, from Medellin to Montreal,…
Continue Reading →In a land where it's not so out of the ordinary for businesses to close up shop at 2 in the afternoon so that everyone can make it home in time to see their country's team play the World Cup,…
Continue Reading →The last time we wrote about Sao Paulo's toy artspace and store Plastik was when we profiled their Munny show, but right now they're fresh into a new exhibition entitled Evoke that attracted so many people to the opening they…
Continue Reading →My sisters and I used to love inflatable toys because they could be kicked and thrown around without causing too much damage (always good for staing un-grounded) to both furniture and ourselves. Sao Paulo artist Pinky Wainer has the same…
Continue Reading →I love working from home for all the obvious reasons, but I still wax nostalgic about the time I used to work in the historical Bradbury Building in L.A., a beautiful brick structure that was the location for many films,…
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