Urban invasion detected

Invader (born 1969) is a French urban artist who pastes up characters from and inspired by the Space Invaders game, made up of small coloured square tiles that form a mosaic. He does this in cities across the world, then documents this as an "Invasion", with books and maps of where to find each invader.



Invader started this project in 1998 with the invasion of Paris - the city where he lives and the most invaded city to date - and then spread the invasion to 31 other cities in France (such as Montpellier, Marseille, Avignon, Rennes, Bordeaux, Lille, or Bastia...). London, Cologne, Geneva, Newcastle, Rome , Berlin, Lausanne, Barcelona, Bonn, Ljubljana, Vienna, Amsterdam, Bilbao, Manchester, Darlington are among the 22 other European cities which have been invaded.



The mosaics depict characters from Space Invaders and other video games from the late 1970s. The images in these games were made with fairly low-resolution graphics, and are therefore suitable for reproduction as mosaics, with tiles representing the pixels. The tiles are difficult to damage and weather-resistant.In Montpellier, the locations of mosaics were chosen so that, when placed on a map, they form an image of a giant space invader character. Invader also works on another project that he titles "Rubikcubism", which consists making artworks made of Rubik's Cubes.

A little treat for you invaders out there! Presenting - Retro Arcade Cake Mould


Now landing in a kitchen near you these cake moulds are a real blast from the past, inspired by the original arcade games that we all grew up playing.


So put down your muffin trays and get down to making some cosmic carrot cake