Stuck Up in Philly: Pheetus and Underwater Pirate

Few cities can boast as many dedicated and talented sticker heads as Philly.  Their characters — often meticulously hand-crafted — seem to peer at you from every public space.  I’m loving this one by Pheetus, and I never tire of seeing Underwater Pirate’s iconic character:

Pheetus on Postal
Underwater Pirate aka UWP

   Photos by Lois Stavsky

Gaia in North Philly

It’s always great to come upon anything by Gaia anywhere. I came upon this huge paste-up yesterday outside the Girard Avenue L in North Philly.  As the neighborhood continues to change, street art is beginning to take up almost as much public space here as traditional graffiti does.

Photo by Lois Stavsky

Best of Philly sticker art: Part one

El Toro and Derto. Photo by RJ Rushmore

Although I’ve been living outside of Philadelphia for about 6 months, it’s only recently that I’ve begun to get a handle on the street art in Philadelphia. The overwhelming trend here is stickering, particularly by artists who draw logos instead of names. Given that my favorite art book of last year was probably a book about stickers, this is a coincidence that I’m loving. I wanted to do a post or two about some of Philadelphia’s best sticker artists, but realized that I am definitely not an expert on the local scene. Luckily, El Toro was happy to help me out in compiling the majority of this list. Also, a big thanks to Damon Landry aka damonabnormal for being such a dedicated photographer of these stickers and allowing Vandalog to rely heavily on his photos for this series. So here’s the first of two posts on some of Philadelphia’s best sticker artists (in no particular order)…

1. UnderWaterPirates

Photo by damonabnormal
Photo by damonabnormal

2. Bob Will Reign

Photo by damonabnormal
Photo by damonabnormal

3. Bad Dog

Photo by damonabnormal
Photo by RJ Rushmore

4. El Toro

Photo by damonabnormal
Photo by damonabnormal

5. Ticky

Photo by damonabnormal
Photo by damonabnormal

Photos by damonabnormal and RJ Rushmore