Paper the Walls

I’m not as avid a fan of street art as Mlle. Eurobrat but this did catch my eye seeing as it’s about the easiest yet most effective streetart concept I’ve seen.  Cut and Paste is sponsored by the UK clothing label Boxfresh and basically invites people to download posters with various Boxfresh garment shapes cut out allowing you to stick it over any context you find interesting/cool/funny/random and take a snap of it and upload it onto the website with ¬£1000 up for grabs for the best entry.

What I’m personally interested in is whether they take this idea further and develop designs based on the art created on the street.  Why not have trousers patterned with brick red corrugated iron? Or sweatshirts printed with tan bricks?  There’s definitely design scope to be explored amongst our surroundings and I think from something like this, it’s a matter of fine-tuning designs to make viable and hopefully eye-pleasing garments.

Examples in London:

The competition is open now until the 30th September and you can rate people’s entries online. Me? I’ll be seeing what I can create just slapping a poster over something. Perhaps it will give metamorphose into something wearable.  I’m already loving some of the entries that have come in:

Because I’m a huge fan of Feist // A more sculptural take on the projcet // I can’t quite figure out where this person stuck the poster but it’s pretty cool all the same.