APEX Mural for BLACK SCALE’s Flagship Store on Haight Street
For its five-year anniversary, BLACK SCALE enlists Bay Area street artist APEX to create a vibrant mural on the side of its Haight Street flagship store. With the sounds of Danny Brown guiding us along, we can see APEX’s painting methods from b...
2012 Moniker Art Fair @ Village Underground London
This past weekend the Moniker Art Fair returned to Village Underground in Shoreditch, London coinciding with the city’s foremost international art event, Frieze. Sponsored by Absolut Vodka, menswear label Boxfresh and G-Shock, this year’s...
POW WOW Hawai’i 2012 Video: Part III
Having already uncovered POW WOW’s founding ethos in Part I as well as its featured Earth-inspired artwork from February’s show in Part II, Director Michael Inouye presents the finale to his three-part retrospective video compilation. ...
Offthewall.tv: Crack & Shine Season 2 Trailer
Crack & Shine is a video series focusing on some of the most talented artists in the graffiti world. Hosted by Vans’s Offthewall.tv, Season 2 continues on with the program as it follows artists across the globe, creative individuals who pur...
Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Transition into Retirement
With the end of the NASA space shuttle program, the remaining space shuttles have been divvied up and sent to some of the premier museum in the country. The last shuttle to find a new home was the Space Shuttle Endeavour which just recently made its...
100 Years of Menswear Book by Cally Blackman
Dress historian, instructor at London’s Central Saint Martins and author Cally Blackman is back with her latest work titled 100 Years of Menswear. Chronicling the ever changing landscape of menswear from the 1900s onwards, Blackman dissects the...
Telling the Story of New York City Through Letter Form
The typography and letter forms found in New York City — unique signage, vernacular typography, and hand-painted lettering — all blend together to create a cohesive narrative from NYC Type. In conjunction with the launch of their website, the celebra...
Futura Talks Hennessy Bottles and 13thWitness
While promoting his bottle collaboration with Hennessy, The212.com linked up with storied artist Futura to discuss a variety of topics. Touching on his favorite era, the exposure the bottle collabo offered, his talented offspring, and his favorite ne...
POW WOW Hawai’i 2012 Video: Part II
After learning the ethos behind Hawaii-based art project POW WOW from Part I, we now present you with POW WOWs Hawai’i Video: Part II. In this edition, we see further into what the project has to offer with comments from an array of internation...
