Hooray! Minneapolis hero gigantic mural painter Isaac Arvold has a new project on his hands here, and he hands it right over to World Famous Design Junkies to put on blast! And so here it is, a relatively mega painting on canvas, 12 feet by 12 feet square, painted, drawn, then painted by Arvold, assisted in part by Paper Tiger*. The painting in question here features Hennepin Bridge & Grainbelt Beer sign from the north side of Minneapolis. They’ve sort of been overgrown by some vine-ridden growth and doughnuts. That’s what Minneapolis really is, so it’s very appropriate to show the truth here I think. To tune up the interactivity of this project, Arvold took a huge long video of the entire process, 10 days mashed into a little over 4 minutes of video.
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Hey so who loves graffiti in places under bridges that you’re not supposed to go to because it’s illegal to be there and also there’s homeless people there who will kill you? I do! That’s why I love these photos taken by an anonymous donor, all of them marked 2006, all of them on either side of the Northern Pacific-BNSF Minneapolis Rail Bridge. There’s lots of stuff down there. Bring your camera, and your running shoes.
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Hello all you would-be distributors of the word to the masses without money. This is your new bible on what to do, (and more importantly, in that, what NOT to do), when distributing your message. It is also important at this moment to mention that everything you see above and below is illegal, and that if you try graffiti, you’re going to get shot, or worse, arrested. The author of this article, me, Chris Burns, is verst only in the small-time wheatpasting technique and small-town spraypainting. Keep that in mind, but also know that these rules are basically universal when it comes to street-trasmissions of the arrestable kind.
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Hello Spinal Tap Anvil Antwoord. You see back stage. This project right here is a photo collection taken on tour with two German bands (Bosse and Frida). The photographer has the name Heinrich Holtgreve and is really good at taking photos and making one photo tell the story of the whole space at once (or lack of story if that’s the case, if you know what I mean.) This set’s meant to show through documentation that touring with a band’s definitely not all glamourous diamond baths and sex with dollar bills and cheese snacks. Definitely not. Take this journey and smell the glove.
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But he ain’t deid yet! Not actually with a gun, either. Here’s a fabulous new art shot full of David Choe works of magnificence, new AND old! You can get your big huge painting on OR get your slightly smaller (but still gigantic) giclee print on. I can vouch for the quality too, I’ve got that one of a half-nude lady falling – it’s fantastic. This right here is called “Character Assassination” and it’s due to be released SOON through the Fifty24SF Gallery. The piece you see above is called “Rosie” and it’s pretty giant.
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Here’s a project! Invented by a classroom full of wild and crazy senior designers from the Minneapolis College or Art and Design is this campaign to fire up the Minneapolis extended community. This is social design. Their first step was this US + THEM poster and flier campaign as seen above (and below); executed over an 18 hour time allotment, they doused downtown, uptown, and Dinkytown Minneapolis. Branding repetition works, it works, it works. And then there were a twisty.
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Hey doggie, you need a new record store to trade dollars for vinyl at? I have one for you. I have one for you right here. It’s called Shuga Records, and it’s in Minneapolis. The reason we-here at World Famous Design Junkies cover such a thing as a record store is this – it’s spectacular in there. And not only is it spectacular IN there, it’s pretty amazing on the outside too. It’s got a big fat painting on the side by Minneapolis stencil-art duo Broken Crow (Mike Fitzsimmons and John Grider) and Brooklyn’s Over Under (Erik Burke.)
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It’s rough on the streets. On the streets, you’re on your own. When you want to do some art in the streets, you get arrested. But first, you get slapped in the face for not being original! Holy cripes you just wrote your name like everybody else. Look at this, though, this lady right here, Nina Wehrle, aka one half of “It’s Raining Elephants,” they paint boats and monkeys. Boats and monkeys! Ships and apes! Check out the whole collection of things they’ve done below, all done within the last year.
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Straight from our pals in the field, photographers codename Curley and Mammal, we’ve got some amazing and fantastic and totally new paintings by graffiti prince Banksy. It seems like maybe this always happens right around the time Banksy releases a print. Could it be? Could it be, Banksy? How dare you! That’s just too ironic. The print he’s releasing is through POW – but don’t bother trying to get one, it’s, like, totally gone already. See all this and crazy more, now, all inside, complete with the exact location of the paintings.
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Thanks to well-written fellow collector of lovely ideas Yorath Roth from Letters from Berlin, I’ve re-discovered my favorite sticker from my travels overseas! I live in Minneapolis now, and my trip was to England (Alnwick, London), Scotland (Edinburgh), France (Paris), and Italy (Rome). More than likely I found this in either Rome or Paris. I believe it was Paris. There was a bit more graffiti there than in Rome if I’m not mistaken.

In celebration of this discovery, this post is a small compilation of photos of the stickers I put up in Paris myself! Yay!
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From our old pal Kevin Cyr comes this fantastic collection of paintings all done of motor vehicles, especially trucks. Each of these trucks is rusted and painted, marked to uniqueness by those art outlaws of the environment, those graffiti writers. Kevin Cyr paints each vehicle with loving grace, making real sure to translate each detail with specificity. More than 16 cars in all, all painted on canvas.
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