5 artists with skull logos

Street artists love skulls almost as much as Dick Cheney enjoys shooting people in the face (God, that’s a really dated pop culture reference, isn’t it). Here are five pieces by artists who use some form of a skull as their logo:

1. Kaws

Maybe an ad disruption would be a ‘better’ piece by Kaws, I love the way somebody spray painted around this sticker. Very few stickers get that much respect.

Photo by Jake Dobkin
Photo by Jake Dobkin

2. Cyclops

You can’t mention London street art or graffiti right now without a nod to Burning Candy, and Cyclop’s skulls are in many of their best collaborative pieces.

Photo by bixentro
Photo by bixentro

3. Booker

Booker/Reader/Readmorebooks/Boans… This writer gets up under too many names to keep track of, but one of his many trademarks are these skulls:

Photo by funkandjazz
Photo by funkandjazz

4. Katsu

No discussion of skulls on the street would be complete without Katsu.

Photo by dreamsjung
Photo by dreamsjung

5. Skullphone

Don’t really know what Skullphone is trying to say with this image, but he’s said it all over the world.

Photo by Laughing Squid
Photo by Laughing Squid

So that’s five street artists and graffiti writers who use skulls as logos. Now the reason I started thinking about this post. This is a new piece by Elbowtoe that I’m really liking:

Elbowtoe

New from Ludo

Just a quick post today because I finished an internship today and I’m going out with friends to celebrate.

Ludo has some new work up.

First, this piece on a boat (cue the song):

ludo

And what I think is one of my favorite Ludo pieces ever:

Ludo

ESPO aka Steve Powers in Philly

Steve Powers is going big in Philadelphia with a project called Love Letter. The website explains it this way:

Love Letter is a project by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and is sponsored by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative.  Generous support provided by the Brownstein Group and Septa.

But what that means for you and me is Steve Powers is painting a bunch of huge spots legally! Here are a few examples:

Love You

Nice Dream

I hope these are around for a while, because I’ll be going to school outside of Philadelphia next year and it would be nice to have some ESPO around town to look at.

Invader strikes London

Here are two of a few pieces that Invader has put up recently in London to coincide his with solo show at Lazarides Gallery. Invader’s started to use large bathroom tiles for these now. Although I sort of like the surprise of finding a small one hidden somewhere, the way the yellow piece below looks like it’s loving is quite nice. I think this is proof though that Invader works best on the street. Equivalent work can be found right now at Lazarides Gallery, but it just doesn’t have the same impact.

Invader Yellow
Photo by unusualimage
Photo by mermaid99
Photo by mermaid99