Global Graphica

Love it or hate it, the TV tower (or Fernsehturm) dominates the Berlin skyline. The twoer was the architectural product of the former Communist East Germany and was thus a landmark of East Berlin. Since the unification of East and West Germany or wende, the tower has become an icon of the new, re-unified Berlin.

The well-designed map of Berlin at the hotel Casa Camper in Mitte.

As we disembarked from the plane, we snapped a pic of the bright and narrow gangway at Berlin Tegel Airport, one of the most crammed and intimate airport spaces we’ve ever seen.

A quick Instagram pic of the control tower and a plane at JFK before taking off to Berlin

Global Graphica is heading to Berlin for a couple of weeks to work on some projects. We’re really looking forward to exploring the city and its rich visual culture – Its landmarks, street art, galleries, museums, design, architecture, shops, creative urban spaces and much more. We’ll be posting pix from the German capital daily and chronicling our trip on the site.

Wheat-paste  street art of a goateed man’s head in the Meat Packing District, NYC.

Cryptic, cheeky line-drawing illustrations wheat-pasted on the shop-front hoarding on Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of New York City. One says “Do It Like They Do On the Discovery Channel.” The other says “Looking for a fit, smart, scruffy, dateable hipster bottom boy.”

We’ve been visiting and re-visiting the BMW Guggenheim Lab, which opened in the Lower East Side / East Village of New York City earlier this month.The space is an experimental, temporary events venue that will be opened until October 16, 2011.

The space is being called a “mobile laboratory.” In the next six years, BMW Guggenheim Lab will be taken on a global tour to nine cities. The events at the Lab relate to issues of contemporary urban life and is a semi-public forum for discussing emerging ideas on sustainability and technology.

The view skywards from the sidewalk in front of the entrance to the New Museum on the Bowery in the Lower East Side of New York City. The building was designed by Tokyo-based firm Sejima + Nishizawa/SANAA and the New York-based firm Gensler. In the picture is the sculptural installation “Rose II” by artist Isa Genzken.

The decor of the bathroom at the McNally-Jackson bookstore in New York City includes a quote by American author James Baldwin painted on the wall.

Black-and-white “‘Temato’ Soup” wheat-paste street art on 14th Street in Chelsea, in homage to Warhol, among others.

The “Love Me” guy’s “Love Love Love” written across the side of a tenement building at the corner of Mulberry and Prince streets in Nolita, in downtown New York City.

We haven’t seen new artwork by Dain in downtown Manhattan for a long time, so it’s great to see some fresh wheat-paste street art by the artist on Crosby Street, in SoHo.

More fresh artwork by the artist “Rae” on Crosby Street in SoHo, downtown New York City.

Some recently discovered artwork by French artist Invader (a.k.a., Space Invader) on the High Line in Chelsea, in New York City. Invader is the cousin of Thierry Guetta, a.k.a., Mr. Brainwash, who was the subject of Banksy’s film, “Exit Through the Gift Shop.”

The very sexy and beautifully designed La Marzooco espresso machine at the Blue Bottle coffee cart on the High Line in Chelsea, in New York City.

Somebody wrote “Buttercup” with what seems like “white-out” liquid on the brick wall of the restroom at Bar Lolita in the Lower East Side of New York City.

A worn, weathered wheat-paste street art poster image of Czar Alexander (right?) at the entrance to the New Museum on the Bowery in New York City.

Our Instagram photo of the lobby at the New Museum on the Bowery in the Lower East Side of New York City. The black-and-white image was taken with an iPhone using the “Gotham” filter in Instagram.

Another in a series black-and-white wheat-paste street artworks of people wearing “NYC” t-shirts. In this one, a bleached-blond girl poses with the tee.