'Pirate Printers' Find Beauty in Manhole Covers

An urban printmaking group is using utility covers to create clothing designs

'Pirate Printers' Find Beauty in Manhole Covers

Art and sewers are rarely associated, but European company raubdruckerin is turning manhole covers, grates, street tiles and other utility fixtures into works of art.

“The main focus is to explore the surfaces of cities, searching for overlooked, seemingly insignificant details on the pavement. They reveal unobserved parts of cities, that are full of history, diversity and creativity,” says artistic director Emma-France Raff.

Known in English as the “pirate...

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