Piet Parra is a Dutch artist who lives in Amsterdam and seems to be divided between art and commerce. He works with design, illustration, art direction, music and more. His most famous characters are surreal humanoid birds.

Artist Natalie Irish have created recently a very curious portrait of Marilyn Monroe, with lipstick marks left by her kisses. Check it out!

Love it or hate Lukas Musil’s tattoos. Abstract and imperfect, the artist trace is, in fact, not very conventional. Check them out.

English fashion brand The Rodnik Band launches collection inspired by famous works of art. Check some of them out after the click.

You can see here on Zupi the charming stars from the golden years of Hollywood in common moments in the day by day of any woman.

It’s open the contest to select the logo representing Human Rights globally. The designs can be send up to July 31st. Participate!

Artist James Charles changes the faces of historical personalities printed on dollar bills to pop icons, multiplying their value up to seventy times! Check it out.

Funny intervention created in a phone booth in Rio de Janeiro by German artist Anton Steenbock lets passersby intrigued: after all, is there anybody out there?

Watch the short video Half, a contemporaneous love story between two girls directed by Alex Bohls.

They paint walls, walk amongst graffiti and interact with the urban landscape without ever revealing their identity. Meet the mysterious silhouettes of artist Kenny Random.

Young brazilian artist creates incredible illustrations full of references from the fashion universe. Get to know a little bit more about her work.

Creator of an art marked by bright colors and feminine characters, the brazilian graffiti artist Tikka had a chat with Zupi. Check out the interview and get to know a little bit more about your work and history.

Check out on Zupi tv a video about a group of spanish girls that decided to enjoy a sunny day among shapes and wheels. Watch it.

An unmistakable pair of legs was seen on the streets of Verona, in Italy. Do you recognize it?

Get to know Picturae 2.0, a high-tech installation equiped to perform several techniques - like graffiti, stencil and painting. Watch it on Zupi tv.

Directed by Mike Petty No Joy is a video that shows impressive images of Joyland, a north-american amusement park abandoned since 2004. Watch it here at Zupi tv.

Dutch artist Kim Welling creates illustrations inside little boxes with messages of comfort to cheer you up when you are having a bad day. Do you want one?

French designer Benoit Ollive created a funny manual with everything you need to know about the subject. Check it out!

French artist Guilo, aka. Remed, produces street art mixing references from art nouveau movement with graphic design from the 70s. Get to know his work.

Dutch artist Diederick Kraaijeveld uses reclaimed wood to carve icons from pop culture. Check this ecologically correct initiative out.

South African artist Faith47 has a very introspective graffiti, full of strong messages. In interview to Zupi, she talks about faith, art and inspiration. Check it out.

No soccer player, doctor or homeless man. George Schnakenberg decided to create a very unusual costume: Love is in the Air, the famous Banksy stencil. Check it out.

Ukrainian photographer takes pictures of graffitis made in abandoned areas near to Chernobyl, 25 years after the nuclear disaster. Check them out.

Illustrator Kyle Wilson decided to immortalize Facebook friends, creating portraits of all his contacts from the social network. See some of them.

Created by the North-American Jamie Beck, the series Cinemagraph brings animated images with fluid movements that differ from the traditional gifs. Check them out.

Written and animated by Alexander Gellner, One Minute Puberty is a short animation film about the problematic changes that occur to growing kids. Check it out.

Andy Miller and Andrew Neyer created and exhibition where the audience can give a personal touch to the displayed work. Check this out.

Pawła Kuczyńskiego loves to bring social and political issues into his illustrations, all of which are heavy with irony. Check out some of his thought provoking works.

Funktionsorte is the latest photographic journey of Matthias Heiderich. The German artist once again presents a fresh look over urban landscape, with impeccable compositions and bright colors. Check out.

While she’s not making soap and studying perfumery, Amanda Louise creates plush monsters that, despite the somber looks, are very charismatic. You can judge for yourself.

Last week we received and tested some really nice iPad accessories by Griffin: the Stylus Pointer, the Tablet Stand support and the Power Jold SE car charger. Check them out.

In Rome since January, designer Paul Soulellis has spent the last days of his stay registering the amazing typography that fills the city’s streets, resulting the Typography in Rome series. Check it out.

World famous urban interventor Blu has recently created a new work in Bologna, Italy, made in partnership with Ericailcane. Get to see it.

There’s nothing more ordinary than seeing cartoon characters in funny, messy situations. But when they’re put into world famous classic paintings, the result can be even more hilarious, as you can see here.

Projecting multicolored graphics onto the body of his models, Hungarian photographer Bálint Rádóczy created the beautiful Skinscapes series. Check it out.

On his A More Open Space series, photographer Phillip Maisel overlaps several pictures taken from Facebook albums, reflecting about the relation between technology, memory and photography. Check out the results.

Gifted with the power of synthesis, Ross Phillips has won two editions of the project Five Seconds, a competition that challenges the participants to create only five-second animations. Check out his winning proposals.

Production company creates a real-life adaptation for the opening of the TV show The Simpsons, showing how their characters would be in flesh and bones. Check it out.

Handwritten Typeface is a project by Brazilian Lucas Neumann de Antonio, where he forms the letters of the alphabet contorting his own hands. Get to know this idea.

Distorting and exaggerating several aspects of our anatomy, Peruvian sculptor Emil Alzamora creates a dialogue between the surreal and the human, our limitations and potentials. Check out this amazing work.

This website offers various cross stitch patterns that instead of displaying flowers or love messages, present bawdy phrases that guarantees total relief from your day to day stresses.

Developed by Jason Bard Yarmosky, the Elder Kinder series reveals the search for the childhood innocence among elderly people, showing grandpas and grandmas dressed up in playful outfits.

Pasting various types of adhesive bandages on paper, American artist Kristina Bell DiTullo develops intricate compositions and patterns that explore the defenses we automatically create in order to mask our pains.

On his third book, photographer Richard Nagler presents us the work he’s been doing for over 30 years now, capturing moments of perfect match between the typography of the streets and the passersby.

Aiming to revitalize Lisbon’s streets, Crono Project invites worldwide artists to create interventions on a few of the city’s derelict places. Some works developed in the project have already become international street art icons. Check them out.

It seems like Jennifer Khoshbin really love books, but not like usual readers do. The passion she devotes to their pages comes from the possibility of turning them into actual works of art.

Putting together his clever ideas and fine technique, Russian illustrator Reey Whaar creates intriguing pieces of work. Their stunning beauty actually hides dark ideas. Check them out.

From April 6th through the 9th, Berlin helds the annual Pictoplasma Festival, the world’s largest celebration of contemporary character culture. Three of the invited speakers will be on Zupi’s upcoming issue, be sure not to miss it.

Canadian Mariel Clayton hates Barbies on a profound level. This is why she photographs them performing the cruelest homicides, in scenes marked by blood and falsity. Get to know this work.

Sakiroo Choi is a Korean designer and illustrator specially talented in character design. His works present us creatures with strong personality starring all kinds of scenes. Check them out.

Exploring the contrast between femininity and aggressiveness, Ellen Greene paints feminine leather gloves with old school tattoos. Check out the unusual result.

Created by Climent Canal studio in partnership with animator Sebastián Baptista, the video Make it Better brings a message of good omen for 2011, presented with some awesome typographic work. Check it out.

Speaking directly from the Netherlands, motion designer Joost Korngold (who also answers to the nickname of Renascent) talks to us about the beginning of his career, his cultural interests, creative process, inspiration and philosophies. Read the interview and check out some of his works.

While some graffiti artists begin to experiment in canvases, others do the other way around. This is the case of Hyuro, Spanish artist who began painting on the streets after discovering its possibilities. Get to know some of his work.

American photographer Brian Parillo covers Los Angeles’ downtown taking amazing shots of buildings and structures, frequently through unusual angles. Check it out.

Don’t you just hate wasting time changing through your fonts until you get a satisfying style for your project? The site Wordmark.it offers a solution: it shows all the fonts installed in your computer, side by side. Check it out.

Usually held inside rooms with no windows, Mary Temple’s installations are made with latex paint to deceive the viewer, creating the illusion that natural light is actually entering the room. Check out this interesting work.

The book Babylon: Surreal Babies is an interesting collection of postcards themed on… babies. Created between 1900 and 1920, the pieces show the little ones in surreal, bizarre situations, such as hanging in a boiling cauldron. Check them out.

Mathis Rekowski is a German illustrator who creates amazing, intricate compositions, full of colors and information, often mixing digital and manual elements. Get to know some of his work.

Hubble Space Telescope’s website offers a huge collection of images made with the equipment, including stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae and much more. Check it out.

Many create ASCII art on the computer, but few venture doing it with a typewriter, like Keira Rathbone does. The British artist combines the keyboard characters to compose faces, landscapes and objects.

Andreas Gursky is one of today’s most celebrated living photographers. His enormous photos express, with huge loads of visual information, questions about social behavior, consumerism culture and mass communication.

Check out the tripped out music video for Zodiac Shit, one of the highlights from Cosmogramma, latest album by Flying Lotus. Produced by Adam “lilfuchs” Fuchs, the video was commissioned by Adult Swim.

When Mr. Hou first published the images of his 3D chalk drawings, in October, he didn’t expect to get so much attention – let alone the title of Chalk God. After all, he was only a common citizen entertaining his son with inventive drawings. Check out some of them.

I Love My World is the name of the newest book by French artist Dran. Released by Edition Populaire, it brings a nice collection of his satirical artworks.

Check out this amazing series by Peter Wegner, in which he photographs the silhouette of urban buildings and landscapes upside down, revealing imaginary buildings in the space between structures.

360 Cities is a website with a huge collection of interactive panoramic photography, allowing the user to immerse in various tourist spots and interesting places throughout the globe.

Matthias Seifarth is a freelance graphic artist and illustrator with an extensive portfolio of oddities. Inspired by everyday bizarreness, the German artist creates unconventional characters worth seeing.

Created by Maxim Dalton as a tribute to the world’s greatest musical phenomenon, the poster Ten Great Years revisits the diverse Beatles phases through their different looks.

Check out the surreal music video of We Got More, from the producer Eskmo. Creative, and somewhat disturbing, the clip was directed by British animator Cyriak Harris.

Check out the list of the 25 best album covers, disclosed last Tuesday (14) by Paste Magazine. Klaxons, Surfer Blood and Gorillaz are the bands leading the rank.

Developing new concepts and giving different shapes to various types of food, German Sarah Illenberger turns watermelons into clouds, beets into rubies, pomegranates into grenades and so on.

Microscopic images of insects and arthropods reveal worlds and creatures that seemed to exist only in our imagination – and maybe that’s why they’re so fascinating. Check out a selection of these strange beings.

Alexander Korzer-Robinson is a German artist who searches through old books after good illustrations, cuts around the chosen ones and removes the rest of the page. The result are three-dimensional compositions that aesthetically resemble collages.

Check out this creative set of posters created by agency Jung von Matt to promote the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, from Germany.

Get to know this Flickr collection that gathers old pictures of the Big Apple, showing its evolution through the first half of the 20th century.

On the Dust series, French photographer Olivier Valsecchi captures incredible images of naked bodies covered in dust, proposing a reflection on concepts like “chaos” and “metamorphosis”. Check it out.

The slow motion experiments by Oton Bačar are so beautiful and poetic that they even look like the final cut. Check out the two videos he’s produced after filming his friends doing some BMX tricks.

As part of the Converse Connectivity campaign, British collective Monorex created huge photorealistic murals in London, showing various musicians wearing the brand’s shoes. The project will also take over cities like Glasgow, Brighton and Manchester.

Between last October and November, the Italian city of Turin held the Pic-Turin Festival, a great celebration of street art. Get to see some incredible murals done during the event by Italian and international artists.

Developed in stop motion by Danish artist Rogier Wieland, this video celebrates the legendary brand of sketchbooks Moleskine, showing why their products are always related to creativity.

Take a look at the awesome portfolio of collages by American Jesse Lenz, artist who has worked for a number of editorial clients, such as Wired, The Atlantic and The American Prospect.

7 Deadly Monsters is an illustration series in which Peter Tanuwidjaja shows us his own creative version of the seven deadly sins. Anger, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride and sloth are here explored in the form of animals transfigured by their own vices.

On the Art Goes Porn project, Brazilian artists maliciously pay homage to some of the greatest painters of all times. On the pieces that comprise the project, the phallic symbol is the center of all reflections.

Check out a selection of works by OaKoAk, French artist who creates funny, amusing urban interventions that interact with diverse elements of the city.

Sao Paulo Ambiguous, the new exhibit by photographer Claudio Edinger, opened November 1st at the 1500 Gallery, in New York. It brings a collection of pictures of Sao Paulo in tilt-shift, technique pioneered by Edinger, and goes on through March 26th, 2011.

Check out the hilarious campaign Leo Burnett Ukraine created for the ADC*UA Awards. It shows the jury members dressed up like women in motherly poses, followed by the title “Sorry, we are not your mother. So think twice before submitting to ADC*UA”.