Naples filled me to the brim in all the most satisfying and stimulating ways. My mind is still awhirl a week after...
An Eyeful in Naples
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Graffiti & Street Art Articles
Signage, Graphics and Street Art Around Milan
My Designer/Artist's eye thrills at the strong visuals of signage – old and new – graphic elements and street art that...
Home Again
Home again. It amuses and pleases me that returning to Milano, Italia, is so known and so comfortable. This is my...
First Time?
I saw this stenciled on a wall here in Milano today… (Worth contemplating.)
Long Pilgrimage Stroll to the Duomo
After sitting inside all day working, by 6:00 p.m. I had to get out and take a walk from here to my beloved Duomo. I...
Evening Canal Stroll
At 9:00 tonight I set off for a walk up and over and around the Naviglio Grande zone - The Grand Canal. It was a brisk...
The Essential
"The essential is invisible to the eyes." Painted graffiti on a wall in Palermo.
Shadow Tree
The most beautiful thing I saw today. The scene: a building along the west of a busy mall parkway in south Seattle,...
Buy More Stuff
"Black Friday". THE day upon which retailers place their hopes and base their projections for their year's sales and...
Nino: A Contemporary Master
It was another sunny afternoon and a good time to go to the Piazza del Duomo to wander around. I hadn't known that...
Portraits of a Regional Election
They put the temporary, scaffold-and-tin poster walls back up in my neighborhood just in time to feature advertising...
Signs of Sanremo
As a designer, I'm enchanted by the signage I see around Italy and France and love to stumble across old signs that...
Bologna Arte Fiera
Scatter sculpture, paintings and installations in amongst mediaeval buildings and you've got the makings of a visually...
100% Italian Meat
Walking past the bus stop, this ad stopped me in my tracks. McDonald's. (A stranger in few parts of the world.) The...
Bluebird of Happiness
A wall along the canal features this singing bluebird and it makes me smile every time. Whether intended or not, it...
Rossignoli
This sign stopped me. I grew up hearing the name "Rossignol" in connection with skiis. Here was a cool old bike shop...
Milanese Ghost Town
When they told me you could play football in the streets of Milan during the month of August, they weren't joking! I...
Blue Head, Five Eyes
The mural right across the grassy patch from the "Ozmo Mural".
Ciao?
I just liked this! (Is that a highly stylized "ciao"? Or a tag? It could be both.) And here are other portions of the...
Ozmo
The "street art" - the graffiti and murals - around here keeps my fingers clicking. And I find imagery around any...