Burberry’s The Art of the Trench has finally launched, and The Sartorialist was tasked to shoot the first 100 photos.

Social networking site Architizer is being promoted as a “Facebook for Architects,” enabling architects, architecture curators, clients, critics and fans to interact.

We recently came across Motto Berlin, a unique, carefully edited store dedicated to fanzines, small run magazines, books and self published printed matter.

German street art outfitter Oink Art Limited has released an interesting new tool for artists, street or otherwise. Their “Stealth Ink” is a virtually invisible ink that goes on clear, but dries dark in a few minutes. See it in action below.

[via Street Art Berlin Blog]

While cycling has always been a strong part of contemporary German culture, one brothel in Berlin is giving it’s patrons a new reason to go green.
According to the BBC:
“Customers who arrive by bicycle at Berlin’s Maison d’Envie will receive a five-euro ($7, £4.30) discount on the usual fee of 70 euros.
The discount also applies to those who can prove they took public transport to get there, owner Thomas Goetz said.”
The owner of the brothel claims that the recession has hit even the oldest profession, but that this new strategy is encouraging sometimes up to 3-5 new clients per day, while [...]

Attention Berlin art lovers! This entire month Urban Affairs Extended will be having a show at Stattbad Berlin Gallery dedicated to cutting edge graffiti and street design. Some of the those showing include some of Berlin’s most popular street artists  including Anton Unai, Nomad, El Bocho and Alias, as well as international street art star Banksy. This event comes hot-on-the-heels of Berlin’s “fashion week” which you can read more about at  the iheartberlin blog. Urban Affairs, one of Berlin’s best resources for independent artists, has a full  schedule of the events up at their website.

With all the talk of Berlin being the “new New York” it’s nice to see Berliners claiming a little bit of NYC for themselves. This past Saturday at Wyoming House, The Goethe Institut’s hip new downtown outpost, Berlin-based socialist-capitalist joint venture Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur (ZIA) transformed the 3rd street storefront into a makeshift employment center, complete with fake job applications, career counseling, a form of payment known as “slime currency” (a greenish goo which could be exchanged for beer or prizes) or actual US Dollars. What were some of the tasks delegated to job seekers? Some of the most popular [...]

German artist Simon Schebert creates amazing 2D artwork by simply folding paper. His detailed “drawings” are on display at Upstairs Berlin till June 27th.
[colectiva via Design You Trust]

In Berlin, a set of guerrilla marketing tactics were noticed recently. At the annual Awards show of the Art Directors Club last week, a real life ram promoted Future:headz, a Munich-based agency whose tagline is ‘Bock auf Neues’, a take on the English expression ‘going for new stuff’. The key to understanding the campaign though, is the fact that ‘bock’ translates to ‘ram’ in English.

Second, to focus attention on intelligent advertising work and not just awards, Future:headz installed two mannequins in various (ahem!) sexual positions to convey the message ‘make love not awards’. That was bound to attract attention!

And finally, [...]

To commemorate the end of the Cold War’s 20th Anniversary one thousand giant dominoes will line the former location of the Berlin Wall.  Forming a two-kilometer border of East and West Germany, when cued the eight-foot high Styrofoam dominoes will fall, taking around half an hour to symbolise the 1989 Berlin Wall’s destruction.  Headed by Kulturprojekte, the Domino Project aims to “encourage young people to reflect on what the fall of the Wall meant,” explains Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit. “We want to knock over the Wall once again.”

Each of the dominoes will be decorated by young local residents, with twenty [...]

Make magazine has linked to a nice piece of adbusting / street art found in Berlin. A crew of artists (Mr. Tailon, Baveux Prod., Kone & Epoxy) have done up a slick pop music advertisement with a Photoshop makeover. Typical Photoshop windows have been wheatpasted over the faces of three ubiquitous top 40 music stars, perhaps commenting on all the behind the scenes image making that goes on in that world. For more images, head over to Ekosystem. This also reminded us of another real world / digital world mashup we noticed last year.
[via Make & Wooster Collective]