Invader: Where to Spot the 8-Bit Street Art in London

Posted by zeristor 12/6/2025

Invader: Where to Spot the 8-Bit Street Art in London(londonist.com)

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andsoitis 12/6/2025|

Invader homepage: https://www.space-invaders.com/home/

teroshan 12/15/2025|

There is also an official app [1] that you can use to photograph and track the mosaics you encounter. It also confirms if the design is indeed done by Invader.

I'm not competing on the leaderboard, but it's still a fun incentive to go instreets I don't usually go through to see if there is a design I haven't encountered yet.

[1] https://www.space-invaders.com/flashinvaders/

mtalantikite 12/15/2025||

Oh that's awesome, I never knew about this app! Walking around NYC it always feels like an easter egg when I randomly notice an Invader somewhere.

BLKNSLVR 12/15/2025||

Invader features early in this extraordinary street art documentary by Banksy:

https://youtu.be/IqVXThss1z4

aaroninsf 12/15/2025||

Tangentially related,

one of the best things my family did visiting London last summer was to take a private bike tour of the east end street art scene with Alternative London https://alternativeldn.co.uk/

Coming from SF the ride was blissfully flat and easy and our guide (the founder) was exceptional in every respect.

It's one of the two things we tell people going to not miss... the other being, mudlarking for Victorian pipe stems [guaranteed find] and maybe something more magical [rare but happens, a local showed us an Elizabethean coin and mediaeval pin she'd found]. We went, across the river a bit west of the Tate Modern, IIRC.

goshx 12/15/2025||

I was in Marseille last week and saw a pixel art of a seagull carrying an invader and was wondering about the story behind it. I love it, thanks for sharing.

biztos 12/15/2025||

There is/was a space invader about 50m from my door in Budapest when I lived there.

It was pretty subtle and I’m sure most people walking by it didn’t even notice. I really liked it, especially the fact that it was impossible to know whether it was a Genuine Space Invader or merely a space invader.

turbonaut 12/15/2025||

Tangentially, Fleet Street has some other space invaders in the form of a plaque.

https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/4-st-dunstan-s-cou...

danielvaughn 12/15/2025||

Many years ago I had an idea for a mobile app that would effectively be an interactive tour for street art. Just a map with all known instances of public art, whether murals, quality graffiti, public sculptures, etc.

Still seems like a good idea tbh.

nsavage 12/15/2025||

I don't live in London, but was there a few weeks ago and walked right by one of the buildings featured and didn't notice. Goes to show that you should always be looking up.

DonHopkins 12/15/2025||

I had a pair of official Space Invader sneakers that would leave pixelated Space Invader stamps and ONE POINT footprints behind.

Triphibian 12/15/2025|

There was an Invader alien somewhere around ground zero prior to the attack. His website used to have a picture of it.

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