Thursday, November 11, 2010

Artist: Les Enfants Terribles (L.E.T.)

(Image source: Wooster Collective)

Saw this great paste-up while skim reading street art blogs and independent street culture websites this morning.

It hits twice, doesn't it?

L.E.T. has toyed with Milton Glaser's original 'I <3 NY' logo, created as part of tourism marketing for the city in the 1970s, to illustrate an underlying emptiness NY gives its residents.

Is New York overrated? Are mega cities depression factories? Is some city called 'Tokyo' the reason Japan has more than 30,000 suicides each year?

This is an LCD Soundsystem moment:


Check out more Les Enfants Terribles here.







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