JUXTAPOZ ISSUE 178 / NOVEMBER 2015

Issue 178 drops Juxtapoz right into the middle of Times Square—loud, bright, chaotic—which perfectly matches the mood of the magazine itself this month. It opens with Studio Time featuring Grotesk, whose graphic characters and punchy visual language bridge streetwear, design, and basketball culture with equal swagger. The Report covers Jewel City at the de Young, a glittering dive into San Francisco’s 1915 World’s Fair legacy, while Matt Weber’s Picture Book brings gritty New York street photography—rain, neon, alleys, and real life caught mid-motion.

The design section, “Getting High with Colossal,” lifts the lid on Colossal Media’s massive hand-painted murals across cityscapes, followed by a Prada feature that recruits six illustrators to reinterpret the brand’s RAW denim collection—fashion meets fine art in a slick, experimental spread. Influences hands the mic to Shepard Fairey, injecting political bite and poster-art lineage into the issue.

The mid-issue features stack up:
• Grotesk returns for a full deep-dive—sports iconography, toy design, typography, and cultural satire.
• Paul Wackers brings calm, painterly interior worlds filled with plants, objects, and dreamlike order.
• Pakayla Biehn contributes double-exposure–inspired paintings full of layered transparency and emotional quiet.
• West Rubinstein (aka West One) delivers bold, abstract urban mark-making.
• Brian M. Viveros brings his signature tough-as-nails femme fighters—tattoos, cigarettes, and cinematic grit.

After the artists, the magazine heads to Norway for Nuart 2015, one of the world’s most important street art festivals—murals, interventions, and political stings across Stavanger’s walls. A profile on “Building an Urban Campfire” explores community-driven art spaces, followed by book reviews, product picks, and Sieben’s “Hello, Hero,” one of his more reflective columns. Pop Life rounds up cultural fragments, and the Perspective piece looks back at Dismaland, revisiting Banksy’s apocalyptic anti-theme park with hindsight and analysis.

A bold, street-forward issue pulsing with NYC energy and international mural culture—classic late-2015 Juxtapoz.