It's good that Maikon Nery's, aka Ultra Grafismo, work speaks for itself. He's linked everywhere on Google, but I could only find one interview in Portuguese about this terrific graphic designer and illustrator, and he definitely deserves more write-ups. I…
Continue Reading →We want to turn you on to Brazil's Alessandro Von Victor. Yeah, really, that kind of turned on. You see, Von Victor is an erotic-pop artist of the hot rod and tattoo school. The picture above is the type of…
Continue Reading →The photo above is of the customizing area at Brazil's first Nike Sportswear store, which opened on Saturday here in Sao Paulo to an excited crowd. No doubt they were there in part to see super-special guest of honor and…
Continue Reading →After making a sensation with his 2005 Poptogramas book that turned bands and artists like ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead and Ozzy Osborne into bubbly, clever pictograms, designer Daniel Motta's follow-up Poptogramas Brasilis is out…
Continue Reading →Brazilian illustrator Rubens LP must have done a lot of connect-the-dots drawings when he was a kid. But he must have had a few ideas of his own, because that's what his artwork looks like"”a more elaborated and fresh version…
Continue Reading →I've been spending an endless amount of time in front of the computer these past few days, which explains how I've stumbled across another great online Brazilian music site this week (it helps to break up the hip-hop of Radio…
Continue Reading →While the Brazilian street art invasion continues to migrate to the farthest walls of the world, its home territory is getting action from outside street artists as well. A few months ago Parisian stencil artist C215 joined up with the…
Continue Reading →Brazil's telecommuting, six-piece band Nancy are getting a boost from Warp Records' Born Ruffians. A remix of Nancy's song "Keep Cooler" has appeared around the Internet and wil be released on a limited edition 7". The songs original rock crunch…
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