Category: Street Art

Shepard Fairey for MOCATV Talks Logos, Art X Business, Getting Lost Down YouTube Rabbit Hole

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MOCAtv from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, continues to pump-out creative video vignettes featuring unique angles on topics discussed among leading-edge artists for the some time now. Their latest features Shepard Fairey as he discusses in less than 2 and a half minutes, how he was inspired by an old-school Bell Logo marketing […]

Label Networks’ New Youth Study Reveals “Recession Generation” Sparks DIY Subcultures with New Industries, Brands, Influences, Market Trends

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Now Available! Label Networks’ 13th Annual Spring Youth Culture Study! Label Networks’ 13th Annual Spring Youth Culture Study reveals new consumer insights from 13-25-year-olds across the United States—the “Recession Generation”–that’s sparking new DIY subcultures, brands, industries, and market trends in spending patterns, social networking, fashion, footwear, technology, music, sports, entertainment, and more. Youth culture in […]

Immigration Reform and Youth Culture Among Heated American Debates, with Artist Activists Like Favianna, Zach de la Rocha, and Pharrell Williams Bringing Issues to the Forefront

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Immigration policy has a great effect on the changing dynamics of today’s youth culture across the United States, not just in terms of legality, but also for future cultural status, personal identity, and lifestyle influences. Overall, 22 of the top 100 metropolitan areas in the U.S. are currently majority-minority. And it’s not going to reverse […]

Project MVMNT with Sub-Sections Clique, Street Hearts, and Mood Boards Among Changes Dedicated to Youth Culture Trends Anticipated at Upcoming Magic, Project Trade Shows

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Among several rumors that actually started at Agenda, were that Magic and Project were re-designing their trade show floors and making some significant changes to debut in Las Vegas February 19-21, 2013. One of the major changes will be the elimination of the long-running S.L.A.T.E. area. Once known as the key location for core streetwear […]

Street Art Culture’s Latest: Kofie’s First Book; Space Invader Invades Paris

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Augustine Kofie has released his first book. Best described in his own words as a “catalogue-ish type direct breakdown of very select studio works spanning 12 years of my art career.” The book, called Select Exhibition Works 2001 – 2012, will surely be a big hit in art circles around the world as Kofie has […]

Agenda Kicks-off Fashion Trade Show Season with Streetwear and Action Sports Brands, Bringing a Fresh Vibe for What to Expect for 2013

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From just 30 independent brands in 2003 to more than 550 streetwear, action sports, and lifestyle brands in 2013, the Agenda trade show January 4-5, 2013 in Long Beach, CA provided a broad range of what to expect in this growing subculture of fashion. The growth of this show in the past 10 years also […]

Best of 2012! Label Networks Presents the Top 10 Profile Reports on Global Youth Culture

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Happy Holidays! As we take a look back at 2012, we’ve combed through the most popular Profile Reports that readers and subscribers gravitated to the most. Profile Reports keep industry leaders in youth culture up to speed with a variety of timely topics, insights, data, street photography, analysis, and future forecasting. This is where we […]

New Balance Creates Skateboard Sneaker In Partnership with Black Box Distribution–To Debut at Agenda

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New Balance has decided to enter into the skateboarding sneaker and lifestyle apparel market with their recent announcement of the launch of the New Balance Numeric or NB#. West-coast based Black Box distribution will produce and market the sneaker brand and apparel via skateboarding channels. “New Balance is proud to partner with Black Box on […]

Controversy Over Stolen Banksy Art Taken for Miami Art Basel Brews New Meaning Between Street and Art

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Wooster Collective has highlighted a disturbing trend in famous street art by those stealing and/or profiting off of what is intentionally meant to be left on the street where the art was created. Marc and Sara Schiller spell out an unfortunate situation at Miami Art Basel with a Banksy piece of art on their site: […]

Street-Art Round-Up: Swoon Featured on MOCAtv for Swimming Cities and Konbit Shelter, Haiti; Space Invader Invades Space for Art Basel Miami

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MOCAtv has been producing an amazing series of short films featuring a number of unique artists including a fair number of street artists and the work that they do. Their latest short features Swoon talking about her Swimming Cities of Serenissima and the Konbit Shelter that she and other artists helped build in Bigones-Leogane, Haiti. […]