YOU CAN'T MISS: Graffiti Art

It seems like one popular style design style these days has become graffiti art. I think it's a fascinating style, but it is very tough to execute using computers. It looks so much better in it's natural habitat, aka on the streets. The media unbeige blog posted a link to Art in the Streets, the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art. There has been some debate on whether graffiti qualifies as an art form, especially since in reality, most graffiti "art" is a criminal offense. What do you think? Can graffiti be called art? What class of art would it be?

On that note, here's a link to Smashing Magazine's 50 Beautiful Graffiti Artworks. Below are some of my favorites:

It's funny how the person advertised their website with this one.