STREET SIGNS - The Guardian

The Guardian is one of my favorite murals in the Branded Arts complex at 8810 Washington Boulevard in Culver City. The piece, a collaboration between Downey's Bumblebee and San Francisco's Zio Ziegler, faces National Boulevard and is best seen from above while standing on the Metro platform. A sweet girl wearing a floral dress in Bumblebee's trademark yellow-and-black color palette stares at passerby as her guardian, painted by Ziegler, is enchanted by a plucked flower of the same variety that appears on her dress.

STREET SIGNS - Angels Come In Various Sizes

If you love street art, then any trip to Los Angeles isn't complete without a visit to the Branded Arts Building at 8810 Washington Boulevard in Culver City. What was once a car dealership is now the site of a collection of murals designed by some of the world's best street and graffiti artists. This piece, with a blue-eyed and be-winged skater boy chilling on his board beneath the words 'Angels come in various sizes,' is one of the first you see as it faces out onto Washington. The painting was done by the German duo of Jasmin "Hera" Siddiqui and Falk "Akut" Lehmann – aka Herakut.