Cool Hunting Video Presents: Pixação

Joao Wainer explains how Heavy Metal and the Vikings informed São Paulo's signature graffiti style

by Gregory Mitnick Covering buildings throughout São Paulo, pixação is a style of graffiti native to Brazil and known for its simple, angular lines. In this episode of Cool Hunting Video, we tour the city streets with Joao Wainer, photographer and co-director of a documentary on the subject, who fills us in on the culture and history.

LVHRD’s WRK/PLY Conference

Tomorrow, 28 March 2009 from 12-7pm, LVHRD is holding a day-long creativity "conference" that features six professional WRK/PLYers in different areas of the creative industry—extremely beneficial for pushing the line between work and play and channeling your inner child into a career. The six pros, including graphic designers Dress Code (pictured below) and the lovely fashion designer Rebecca Turbow, will speak from experience to help …

Damián Ortega: Materialista

Mexican artist Damián Ortega's masterful new installation at Galpão Fortes Vilaça takes its title, "Materialista," from the Spanish word describing a truck that transports construction materials. The truck parts themselves are Ortega's chosen medium for the piece, a play on the idea of materialism and deconstruction. Totaling eight meters long, the Mexican artist hung steel parts from the ceiling to create the illusion of an …