Keep a look out for Beautiful Angle’s posters on the streets of Tacoma each month. Their use of letterpress type and layered imagery is outstanding.

The seventh annual Pedalpalooza takes place in Portland from June 12-28. This event is growing every year, and now features 192 events over 20 days. The stencil poster was done by Portland artist Tiago DeJerk, who’s leading a stencil bike ride on Monday the 15th after dark.

You can catch Ninja9ine’s street stencils all over Vancouver, BC right now. Nice concepts.

NYC Graffiti Legend Ghost a/k/a Cousin Frank, is currently showing at the BLVD Gallery in Seattle. Having started writing in the golden age of the late 1970’s, Ghost has first hand knowledge of the many adventures and accomplishments of the NYC subway graffiti movement. This is your chance to see new works from a pioneering influence for many graffiti artists around the world. Also, check out the teaser trailer for the upcoming graffiti documentary on Ghost from Underdog Pictures.

For all those that like to skate and create, this one is the holy grail of projects. The City of Seattle office of Arts & Cultural Affairs has submitted a call for artists to create art and skate-able art objects for the new Seattle Center Skatepark. $22K is on the line so get your submission in by March 18th, 2008.

I know, I know… This post has nothing to do with northwest art and design. I’ll be back to that in the next post. For now here’s a few photos from my trip to China and Hong Kong in January. The first 10 or so shots show some of the street art I found while there.

Georgetown now has one of the biggest murals in Seattle (160′x18′) by 14 of the Northwest’s best graf artists. Some of the artists involved were SPECSONE, Humor, Weirdo, 179, Kiloe and Solace. Today is the grand wall unveiling party, with music, barbecue and refreshments, 11 a.m.-5 p.m, 4th ave S. and S. Michigan St. A complete photoset with closeups of the mural is available here.

This is a great collaboration of 21 (and counting) seattle artists. Be sure to view their photo set for detail images of the Owl Tree.