David Choe, the graffiti artist who covered Facebook’s walls took compensation in the form of stock currently worth $200 million, and the value of it is getting him a lot of ink.

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Nir Refuah, the creative director of the advertising agency McCann Erickson in Tel Aviv, Israel pointed out a very cute Facebook photo album layout he designed.
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Danish gallery Beck-Fischer reports that Facebook’s advertising panel rejects an identical ad roughly half of the time the proprietor submits a bid.
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Facebook has gotten into hot water before for being a little too literal with the “no nudity” policy. Now, the social media site is being reprimanded by the New York Academy of Art for “being the final arbiter — and online curator — of the artwork we share with the world.”
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For hot New York art curator Savannah Spirit, it was just a matter of course that she’d share images from her latest show, Hotter Than July: A Sexploration, with her 2,000-plus friends on the social network.  Alas, Facebook pulled her account without warning on the opening day of the exhibit.
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Ever wonder what life would look like if you stepped back and watched it all through the lens of Facebook? The team over at Mashtart did and decided to come up with this clever video which shows the life of one Facebook user. Check it out below!
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File this into the cool-but-quirky box – a new service called Printing Facebook is offering to create a poster of your Facebook friends.
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I love the idea behind this quirky artwork at The Edge in Brisbane, Australia. It’s called “Meet Eater” and creator Bashkim Isai set up the project with the goal of re-establishing the connection between humans and plants.
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The artist Charis Tsevis, has apparently hit on a pretty clever design theme that has now been duplicated for multiple influentials, including Mark Zuckerberg. Wired magazine contracted with Tsevis for the magazine’s U.K. edition to create a mosaic portrait of the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. It’s a pretty slick technique which has now been duplicated for Steve Jobs, Barack Obama, and many others, all of which you can view on artist’s website.
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Have you ever wondered where all those digital goods that weren’t of high enough quality to make the final cut go? I think we’ve found it. Arend deGruyter-Helfer developed the following image of a pile of Facebook gifts. Obviously there isn’t a real place you can go to find the Facebook Gifts wasteland, but if there was, I’d imagine that this is how that world would look. It’s a piece of digital art that I think would do extremely well as a poster.
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