Although the title implicates it, BUS126s latest publication from July 2021 features works from the recent past. As part of…
MASON – THE ESSENCE OF WRITING
Dortmund is one of the few cities which has an untouchable status in the history of graffiti in Europe. Especially…
AURI SACRA FAMES No.1
The year 2012: Streetfiles.org is the No.1 source for checking out graffiti. Print as a medium for publishing photos of…
Graffiti an der Line in Basel 1985–1990
Whilst graffiti in Europe is present now for almost 40 years there seems to be a growing interest in the…
Punk Graffiti Archives: The Netherlands
The history of graffiti in the Netherlands.
Punk Graffiti Archives: Madrid
The history of graffiti in Madrid.
LET’S DISAPPEAR! – BUS126
BUS126 is an oldschool writer who belongs to the first generations of the Berlin graffiti scene. Starting in 1986 with…
EISENSTEPPE – Spuren des Hoboismus in Deutschland
Hoboism is an North American phenomenon describing the nomadic lifestyle of iternant workers who moved from town to town by…
TRAINS DE MARCHANDISES – VOLUME 1
RAP is a Paris originated writer who started doing graffiti in the early nineties. As member of maybe the most…
GRAFFALIFE No.2 – STATIONS FANTÔMES
RAP is a Paris originated writer who started doing graffiti in the early nineties. As member of maybe the most…
TAG TOWN – Martha Cooper
Martha Cooper is best known for publishing SUBWAY ART in 1984. Together with Henry Chalfant she documented the New York…
CLASSIC HITS – New York’s Pioneering Subway Graffiti Writers
If you think about New York subway graffiti, names like SEEN, DONDI, LEE, QUIK or ZEPHYR may come to you…
Phantasies – Mythes et legends du group PAL
15 interviews with members of the PAL from Paris and some great photos made by Esso.
Nuart Journal – #2 Eloquent Vandals
“The theme of Issue II – ELOQUENT VANDALS – is a provocative link to street art and urban culture’s delinquent…
Nuart Journal – #1 Space is the Place
“Nuart Journal is a forum for critical commentary on urban art, defined as broadly as possible to include all aspects…
Queenzbound – 1st sensational issue
“This is the railroad story about mutants, trainnerds, coffeedrinkers, teadrinkers and railworkers who creep the freightyards and layups. Their only…
Illegale Zeichnungen
Following the stale traditional graffiti type hierarchy, letter pieces can be executed as hasty throw-ups, large-scale, well readable bombings and…
KUNSTFORUM International. Graffiti NOW – Ästhetik des Illegalen
In its 50th issue the established German art magazine KUNSTFORUM International did introduce Graffiti for the first time as the…
Groß-Clochard (HUMAN INSIDE)
“Numerous smartphone snapshots. Frozen snippets of moments from SAEIO’s last trip to Southland. Lightheartedness. Together with two Germans SPAIR &…
Guide 04 (+ interview)
Almost one and a half year have passed since the last Prague based Guide zine was released. Whilst all three…
DIAMONDS – Geben Sie ihm keine Zigarette, er ist noch ein Kind
“We have learned nothing new!” declared the shocked painter Pablo Picasso upon visiting the cave paintings of Lascaux. He was…
OH – by Boris “DELTA” Tellegen
Painting freighttrains became more and more attractive to European writers within the last 15 years. After decades in which boxcar…
Disz. The first Dutch writer bombing the New York City subway.
…New York City is still the capital and cultural center of graffiti. It’s like Mecca to those who worship at…
451 – 452
The passion to paint trains is often combined with a big enthusiasm for trains, different and rare models and their…
CALYBA – Screen Print
In Joachim Spurlosers and Stefan Wartenbergs 2015 publication “CALYBA” you can find poems based on the pseudonyms of graffitiwriters and…
something passed by my eyes
“ODEN is graffiti artist who lives in japan. mostly his subjects are from exploring, painting and all his experience. This…
Rail Experimental – Belgian Train Worker Art
The author documents the railway workers activity with more than 1000 photographs between 2013-2017. The presented pictures were selected from…
Eruption
In 2012 in Berlin suddenly a couple of wholecars mostly on the Ringbahn (circle line) appeared. Although a traditional trainwriting…
Kat Dogtok – Verehrtes Phantom, (2nd Edition)
Im Jahre 2012 entdeckt die Autorin des vorliegenden Buchs Kat Dogtok erstmals in einem Waldstück außerhalb von Leipzig eine Art…
Flight Mode No.3 – Old Habits – New Habitats
The 2018 issue of Flight Mode just kept going where the concept magazine did start three years ago. The book…
Flight Mode No.1 – Treasured Moments and Memorabilia
For many writers, often trainwriters, traveling and painting all around the globe has become an essential part of the graffiti…
IRON CITY – Graffiti Dortmund
Dortmund is one of the few German cities in which the classic 1980s movies and books from New York on…
Public Wall Writing in Philadelphia
As New York City developed its own name writing culture in the 1960s, so did Philadelphia. In “Public Wall Writing…
Konsens Berlin 2017
„Konsens Berlin“ is a project that combines a colorful mix of artists – all related to graffiti and the city…
Cargocolor Nummerdrei
After the first two issues of the Cargocolor magazine only had to offer photographic content just like their blog, this…
Moures – Faces
When it comes to trainwriting, taking photos of the finished piece is as common as masking your face or using…
Tramp Directories, Noms-de-Road, and Unwritten Codes. A souvenir of hobo graffiti.
This 2017 publication gives authentic first insights into a subculture which got more in common with nowadays graffiti as one…
Art Inconsequence – Advanced Vandalism
The “art inconsequence”-movie, which was published in 2007 is a milestone concerning the avantgardistic approach of the featured material. Although…
Der Edelstein – Rauschen
“Rauschen” takes the reader on a stroll through Berlin, stopping at writings which stand out from the perpetual flow of…
Forms of Rockin’
Tracing back the origins of letterforms in graffiti, you’ll find major figures who influenced hundreds of young people in the…
Guide 03
Guide 03 is about tags by four Prague based writers. This edition consists of four individual zines put together in…
Over and Over #1
The guys behind the Masters of Reitsport focussed on tags in the first issue of their Over and Over magazine.…
303.1
An harshly scribbled down intro opens the first issue of 303 magazine. §303 is the paragraph on damage to property…
Mirror Talk
The work of SPAIR is omnipresent in Berlin. Whether rooftops, linepieces or streetpieces – also in the most uncommon places…
Getting Caught
In this 2011 publication Akay from Stockholm collected 24 narrations from the past 30 years about writers who tell their…
The Death of Graffiti
18 Thesen hat Oliver Kuhnert in „The Death of Graffiti“ zum vermeintlichen Tod von Graffiti niedergeschrieben. In seiner Fundamentalkritik benennt…
Gates Of Graffiti
Doors play a significant role in graffiti writing, especially when it comes to tagging. In Gates of Graffiti Malcolm Jacobson…
Graffolution Set
From Graffiti Writing to Abstract Painting „Graffolution“ unites 47 international artists and crews from the post-stylewriting era, who contributed exclusive…
Sprühlinien – Emmett E.
Destroy- or Terrorlines appear in different places in Berlin. Each line has its own history and sometimes also expresses the…
N.o.Madski – The Essence
Nomad has been part of the European style writing elite since at least the 2010s. In his colorful, large-format concept…