Best of LA 2010

MELROSEandFAIRFAX is proud to announce the first annual 'Best of Los Angeles Street Art-2010'.

It has been an awesome year and we have witnessed some incredible art on the streets. Now its time to pick your favorites~

We have broken it down into 5 categories Top Street Artist, Top Sticker Artist, Top Graffiti Artist, Top Crew and Crowd Favorite. The first four are limited to one vote per person, and the last is a straight popularity contest-vote as many times as you want.

We puzzled long and hard over how to select the nominees. After a lot of thoughtful consideration, decided that the fairest way would be to go by the amount of coverage--the artists with the most tags on MELROSEandFAIRFAX were chosen. And even then, since many artists cover many different categories (i.e. graffiti AND stickers), there was still great difficulty deciding who goes where.

After long periods hammering it out, we nailed down these nominees. Check it out~

Top Street Artist (1 Vote Per Person)
-Free Humanity
-Alec
-Dog Byte
-Septerhed
-KH no. 7
-Inept
-Leba
-Destroy All Design

Top Sticker Artist (1 Vote Per Person)
-Bankrupt Slut
-MQ
-Howe
-SmogCity
-Branded
-Wheat Peace
-2Much
-Insurgency Inc

Top Street Art Crew (1 Vote Per Person)
-The Status Faction (TSF)
-Rotting Fresh
-Cat Cult
-RTH
-The Loyal Subjects (TLS)
-CBS
-JDI
-Unseen

Top Graffiti Artist (1 Vote Per Person)
-Bran TRB
-Irok
-Cest
-Smear
-Eyeworm
-Sigue
-Glaboe
-Reva

Crowd Favorite (vote as many times as you want)
-Email us to nominate your favorite artist!

All the artists nominated deserve mad props. These are the top artists of the year, as far as we are concerned. Clearly, we couldn't nominate everyone. There are many, many deserving artists. Apologies to all those we've covered but couldn't nomiate. In our book, if you are making art and getting up, you are already artist of the year~

-Voting will be on the right side of the site. Voting ends December 27th. Prizes will be announced soon.

***Lol, we got slammed right after this post, and the polls crashed due to high traffic. We will try to get it straightened out right away. Thanks***

***Update: we got things back up and running! Vote away~***