not your typical icecream man

Chicago artist The Orkid Man has put a creative spin on a classic family treat.

You may have seen his ice cream stickers or ones like them up around the city. Not as frequent but just as witty are his tongue-in-cheek weiner tags.

Orkid doesn’t stop there though. Along with wheatpasting he’s also got some really nice pieces. Hopefully more on him to come.

But for now…

Apparently ice cream is a popular topic for art, as I stumbled on this article a few days ago. The blog documents artist’s renderings of ‘ice cream people’ (like the one to the right) and the often overlooked illustrations outside of ice cream shops that qualify as street art as much as anything else. Anyone can create their own ice cream person to add to the archives, which will eventually culminate in an exhibition.