Global Graphica

Graffiti and street art painting of Jesus Christ on an underground parking garage wall in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. The city is small but has a rich cultural scene. We’ll definitely be going back again some day.

Here (and here, too) are some more kick-arse street art from our Iceland series …

A lovely set of stencils exploring the cute, furry animal motif along the Blue Wall off the main shopping drag of Hverfisgata street in central Reykjavik, Iceland.

The Super Happy Friends stencil in central Reykjavik, Icleand. Who are these guys? We’ve heard the SHF are responsible for a lot of street art and graffiti in the cool island capital. This picture was snapped in summer 2008, when we were in town for the Bjork and Sigur Ros concert for Nattura.

We love this sign at Reykjavik’s Keflavik International Airport. We love the fact that somebody thought about setting aside a space for people to find each other and explicitly labeling that space with a sign. We also love the choice of color, font and positioning, as well as the light. The airport is one of the best designed and modern we’ve seen anywhere in the world. The immigration passport-control and customs area has a spare aesthetic elegance and feels warms and soothing for the foreign visitor.

Football-theme ads in a square in downtown Reykjavik, Iceland.

Outdoor billboard advertising with a design concept using lots of faces along a road-side construction barrier in downtown Reykjavik.

Poster ads for a club event last year featuring renowned American techno DJ and producer Carl Craig in Reykjavik, Iceland. The Icelandic capital is a popular stopover for many North American and European musicians and bands while in transit across the Atlantic. The city has an energetic music scene and lots of clubs where foreign bands can try out material on eve of their tours elsewhere.

Here’s another cute Sharpie-marker-type street art in Reykjavik, Iceland. The illustration is a character that looks like a cloud or puff wearing a bow tie. This could be a Japanese anime star.

Sharpie-marker street art illustration in downtown Reykjavik, Iceland. Cute.

Beautiful street-art graffiti painting in Reykjavik, Iceland. This image was taken in the wee hours of the summer morning when it’s still light out.

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Is it an orange-haired ram or some curious Icelandic creature of the imagination? Whatever it is, we think this street art painting in Reykjavik is cute and cool.

When we were in Reykjavik, Iceland recently, we came across a lot of awesome, well-crafted and original street art and graff around the city. Many popular spots were in parking lots — above ground and underground — which we the results less likely to be frowned upon). In this garage underneath a small mixed-use condo-office building outside downtown Reykjavik, we found tons of street art, including this clever use of a structural column as a canvas for a painting of two cute giraffes in love and about to kiss.

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Colorful graff-street art by “Curse” (?) in a small underground parking lot in downtown Reykjavik, Iceland, circa summer 2008. Note the caricature of Jay, the dude from the Silent Bob movies.

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Reykjavik architecture and signage: A closer shot of the wonderfully named James Bond video rental shop in Reykjavik, Iceland.


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Reykjavik architecture and signage: Gotta love this — a video rental shop (or is it a tiny cinema?) called James Bond, complete with Coca-Cola sponsored sign, in Reykjavik, Iceland.


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Massive “DAT” graffiti tag in Reykjavik, Iceland.


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Massive “DAT” graffiti tag in Reykjavik, Iceland. Snapped this walking back to downtown after the Bjork and Sigur Ros “Natura” concert.


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Another shot of a house painted with abstract color forms in Reykjavik, Iceland.


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Close-up of some beautiful abstract color forms painted on the side of house in central Reykjavik, Iceland.


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