Pre-Order: BLACKBOOK 05 – SHORE

With BLACKBOOK 05 – SHORE the publication series continues by the team behind one of the world’s biggest blogs on graffiti: ILOVEGRAFFITI. After years of documentation, research, producing and promoting the graffiti subculture, they decided to go straight back to the roots: A writer’s blackbook. In the pre-internet era of analog photography the blackbook had an unique status. It often featured the writer’s best works, drafts, sketches from friends or tags from heroes – a private portfolio.

SHORE is without a doubt a true legend of German graffiti who started writing in Hamburg in the late 1980s as SIN and later STAR. He quickly adopted a way of designing his works: simple but vivid letters, giant height compared to common pieces of this time, fat outlines, absolutely legible, super clean, often painted in thick full colour whether on trains or on walls and rarely used fadings – a typical aesthetic of the cities Dortmund and also Copenhagen back then.

His high output and professional approach led to his membership in the notorious Real Transit Artists (RTA) crew in 1990. It seemed as would the Hamburg RTA style been executed by the cities most active bombers ENRO, WHO, SERA, LOR, SIR, ENT, SERTA, DINR, VOLA and SHORE alike. When it became clear that all these names have been aliases of the same person the status king was well deserved for Hamburg’s maniac bomber. But the fifth volume of the BLACKBOOK series also focuses on his countless train activities and travels to cities like Vienna, Dortmund, Berlin or New York.

Looking back from today it amazes even more to see that most of his output was done only until 1994 together with partners like CHINTZ, MILK, ZEBSTER, SHARK, JBK, NEON, LOOMIT, SIE, CES53, ZEDZ, PRIME, DROW, HOT, SENTO, STONE and others. Filling up easily 152 pages with the sheer unbelievable amount of high quality pieces from not even a ten year period underlines his importance and the stylistic influence he had beyond the borders of Hamburg throughout Europe. Some three decades later it is finally time for an audience at his highness’s archives. The book features over 400 photos from 1987 to 1995 and also includes additional texts from SHARK, MOSES, DROW and others.

Pre-order BLACKBOOK 05 – SHORE now. The limited edition of 250 copies comes with a golden debossed tag on the cover, two A4 prints and is signed by him. The regular edition has a silver debossed tag on the cover. Pre-orders including several products will be shipped as one order as soon as we received the books in January 2026.

152 pages, 29,7 x 21 cm, hardcover, robust structured cover material, additional silver tag debossing
“Limited edition” – Edition of 250, gold tag debossing, signed by the artist two additional A4 prints included. 
Language: English
Release date: January 2026
ISBN: 978-3-9825457-7-6
Publisher: RED TOWER Publishing