I'm not as avid a fan of street art as Mlle. Eurobrat but this did catch my eye seeing as it's about the easiest yet most effective streetart concept I've seen. Cut and Paste is sponsored by the UK clothing label Boxfresh and basically invites people to download posters with various Boxfresh garment shapes cut out allowing you to stick it over any context you find interesting/cool/funny/random and take a snap of it and upload it onto the website with £1000 up for grabs for the best entry.
What I'm personally interested in is whether they take this idea further and develop designs based on the art created on the street. Why not have trousers patterned with brick red corrugated iron? Or sweatshirts printed with tan bricks? There's definitely design scope to be explored amongst our surroundings and I think from something like this, it's a matter of fine-tuning designs to make viable and hopefully eye-pleasing garments.
Examples in London:
The competition is open now until the 30th September and you can rate people's entries online. Me? I'll be seeing what I can create just slapping a poster over something. Perhaps it will give metamorphose into something wearable. I'm already loving some of the entries that have come in:
Because I'm a huge fan of Feist // A more sculptural take on the projcet // I can't quite figure out where this person stuck the poster but it's pretty cool all the same.
Well, it is clever, but my first response was "Oh no! commercializing graffiti! I mean you would be tempted to use a spay can with those stencils. What's next? Should I get a Coca Cola tattoo?
Posted by: j | 03 August 2007 at 22:41
Gahhhh FEIST!
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Posted by: Cillian | 03 August 2007 at 23:29
Feist rocks!!!
Posted by: Chic Looks | 04 August 2007 at 01:52
I think that last one is pasted over a window.
Posted by: tasha | 04 August 2007 at 04:51
'Sweatshirts printed with tan bricks' makes me think of the urban camouflage suits used in True Stories (I think) by David Byrne, which were in the Imperial War Museum's Camouflage exhibition...
Posted by: Xanthippe | 04 August 2007 at 10:41
Hmm... maybe the last one was posted on a window and the picture was shot through it??
Posted by: hurlax | 04 August 2007 at 14:01
I LOVE 'Limit to your love'. Infact it is playing right now as i am typing!
Posted by: lola | 04 August 2007 at 14:37
Interesting... thanks for the link!
Posted by: eurobrat | 12 August 2007 at 18:38