As the home of the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, the city of Medellín, Colombia, used to be one of the most violent places in the world. Today, the cells and grounds of its Bellavista prison are largely populated with people who grew up in and around the city. It’s an intimidating place, to say the least, yet as is evident in the images of Vance Jacobs’s photographic series “Colombian Prison: A View from the…

The Wooster Collective talks to Ji Lee about turning video billboards into glowing art pieces.

Ji Lee is one of New York City’s most prolific street artists. Lee’s day job is in advertising, and his art is a reaction to the prolific and uncreative advertising on our streets. He is most well know for the “Bubble Project,” where he placed empty speech bubbles on outdoor advertisements and allowed the city to fill them in. Here, we’re highlighting…

http://www.vimeo.com/5228616

John Carrera’s “Pictorial Webster’s: Inspiration to Completion” is a truly marvelous short, one that I could watch over and over and over.

Via We Love You So.

We’re happy to announce a bit of new excitement here on GOOD. We’re going to start offering, via Zazzle, our infographics as posters to put on your walls. We’re offering our newest piece, on worldwide murder rates right now, and we’ll be working to add links to all of our back catalogue in the coming weeks, as well as all our pieces going forward. If you have specific requests for something from the archives to…

The Wooster Collective talks to Specter about his depictions of the New York City’s unheralded workers.

Specter is one of the few artists today who is putting up large hand-made pieces in New York. Focusing his art on those the city often ignores, his goal is to bring attention to the people who keep the city “alive.” We love the attention to detail Specter’s pieces have and how they often look so real that you look twice,…

Yesterday, Jordan Seiler (a GOOD 100 honoree) and a small army of artists took to New York’s streets to replace what they contend are illegal billboards with art. Unurth has a great series of photos. According to The New York Times the city isn’t providing much clarity about whether the billboards are, in fact, illegal, and some advertisers showed up to paste right over the art as soon as it went up. Hopefully the art prevails.

The Pop!Tech conference wrapped up today and that’s the end of our coverage. The list of speakers, with links to their work, is here. Below, as a digestif, is a WalrusTV interview with Reuben Margolin, who presented one of his amazing kinetic sculptures at the conference.

His last line is particularly nice: “If you copy just the teeniest part of nature correctly you’re going to have a beautiful work of art.”

Last month on Governor’s Island in New York, Droog’s design festival, Pioneers of Change, featured an interesting take on a pop-up restaurant, created by a designer speaking today at Pop!Tech. Inspired by the recent economic downturn and a low-brow haute ethos, the Go Slow Cafe celebrated design as it relates to reclamation, re-use, amusement, and slow food. A print hung in the entranceway that read: Taste Slowly.

The cafe, a traveling installation, was set up in…

The Wooster Collective talks to C215 about his new piece in Paris and how his art can improve a community.

The Paris-based artist C215 focuses on the streets and their inhabitants. In the last year, C215 has come into his own by traveling the globe putting his stencils of the downtrodden in the roughest corners of the world. We have fallen in love with his beautiful and spirited images. We asked him about his latest work—like this…

While we’re on the subject of affordable housing, let’s talk about sustainable design, for the two walk hand in hand. But first, let’s talk about American cheese.

Most would agree that American cheese, like toothpaste or tennis balls, is an affordable commodity. When we talk about affordable American cheese slices, we are talking about the relatively small amount of dollars required to acquire them at the American cheese store. The same holds true at the tennis ball…

The Wooster Collective talks to Ji Lee about turning video billboards into glowing art pieces.

Ji Lee is one of New York City’s most prolific street artists. Lee’s day job is in advertising, and his art is a reaction to the prolific and uncreative advertising on our streets. He is most well know for the “Bubble Project,” where he placed empty speech bubbles on outdoor advertisements and allowed the city to fill them in. Here, we’re highlighting…

http://www.vimeo.com/5228616

John Carrera’s “Pictorial Webster’s: Inspiration to Completion” is a truly marvelous short, one that I could watch over and over and over.

Via We Love You So.

We’re happy to announce a bit of new excitement here on GOOD. We’re going to start offering, via Zazzle, our infographics as posters to put on your walls. We’re offering our newest piece, on worldwide murder rates right now, and we’ll be working to add links to all of our back catalogue in the coming weeks, as well as all our pieces going forward. If you have specific requests for something from the archives to…

The Wooster Collective talks to Specter about his depictions of the New York City’s unheralded workers.

Specter is one of the few artists today who is putting up large hand-made pieces in New York. Focusing his art on those the city often ignores, his goal is to bring attention to the people who keep the city “alive.” We love the attention to detail Specter’s pieces have and how they often look so real that you look twice,…

Yesterday, Jordan Seiler (a GOOD 100 honoree) and a small army of artists took to New York’s streets to replace what they contend are illegal billboards with art. Unurth has a great series of photos. According to The New York Times the city isn’t providing much clarity about whether the billboards are, in fact, illegal, and some advertisers showed up to paste right over the art as soon as it went up. Hopefully the art prevails.

The Pop!Tech conference wrapped up today and that’s the end of our coverage. The list of speakers, with links to their work, is here. Below, as a digestif, is a WalrusTV interview with Reuben Margolin, who presented one of his amazing kinetic sculptures at the conference.

His last line is particularly nice: “If you copy just the teeniest part of nature correctly you’re going to have a beautiful work of art.”

Last month on Governor’s Island in New York, Droog’s design festival, Pioneers of Change, featured an interesting take on a pop-up restaurant, created by a designer speaking today at Pop!Tech. Inspired by the recent economic downturn and a low-brow haute ethos, the Go Slow Cafe celebrated design as it relates to reclamation, re-use, amusement, and slow food. A print hung in the entranceway that read: Taste Slowly.

The cafe, a traveling installation, was set up in…

The Wooster Collective talks to C215 about his new piece in Paris and how his art can improve a community.

The Paris-based artist C215 focuses on the streets and their inhabitants. In the last year, C215 has come into his own by traveling the globe putting his stencils of the downtrodden in the roughest corners of the world. We have fallen in love with his beautiful and spirited images. We asked him about his latest work—like this…

While we’re on the subject of affordable housing, let’s talk about sustainable design, for the two walk hand in hand. But first, let’s talk about American cheese.

Most would agree that American cheese, like toothpaste or tennis balls, is an affordable commodity. When we talk about affordable American cheese slices, we are talking about the relatively small amount of dollars required to acquire them at the American cheese store. The same holds true at the tennis ball…

Elbow-Toe turns children’s literature into urban art.

Elbow-Toe is an active New York City street artist who places large linocuts across lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Often these pieces are one-of-a-kind works that draw from literary sources and interact with the environment in which they’re placed. Elbow-Toe walks the city identifying special places for his “people” to live, resulting in images that are powerful and as emotionally torn as their surrounding neighborhoods.

WOOSTER: Why did you choose the specific…

As the home of the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, the city of Medellín, Colombia, used to be one of the most violent places in the world. Today, the cells and grounds of its Bellavista prison are largely populated with people who grew up in and around the city. It’s an intimidating place, to say the least, yet as is evident in the images of Vance Jacobs’s photographic series “Colombian Prison: A View from the…