Posts tagged with ‘book’

  • MIRROR TALK – SPAIR (2nd edition)

    SPAIR. Five letters which appear mostly as chrome and black tags, rooftops, line- and streetpieces all across the city of…

  • Radical Passion

    Within the graffiti culture trains are more than just a means to the end for getting your name up more…

  • SELFIES – Peter Michalski

    For SELFIES we teamed up with legendary Peter Michalski, an expert for uncommissioned public works on walls and trains since…

  • Depicting Recent Memories

    In the late 1990s and early 2000s the Berlin based DRM crew have been one of the most famous trainwriting…

  • BITTE LEBN – Urbane Kunst & Subkultur in Berlin 2003-2021

    In the last two decades the cityscape of Berlin has changed a lot. Many wastelands have been built on and…

  • Knowing ZASD By His Walk – Thomas Bratzke

    Thomas Bratzke’s ZASD-tags has been showing up in Berlin since the early 1990’s, and in the late 1990’s he became…

  • EINE STADT WIRD BUNT. Hamburg Graffiti History 1980-1999

    In recent years various books have been published which did spotlight the arrival of New York graffiti in the early…

  • Pixacao: Sao Paulo Signature

    Pixação is a completely unique form of letter writing developed in São Paulo, Brazil in the 1980s. The black, extremely…

  • EGS: Writing Stories with Three Letters

    Finnish contemporary artist EGS is one of the most successful of his generation. As one of the first clearly graffiti-rooted…

  • BRIGHT FUTURE – BUS126

    Although the title implicates it, BUS126s latest publication from July 2021 features works from the recent past. As part of…

  • ROGER – NEVER BE LATE

    Writing the same name for over 25 years seems to lead into two possible scenarios: writers achieve a kind of…

  • Preorder: ROGER – NEVER BE LATE

    With ROGER – NEVER BE LATE we are proud to publish a 100 paged hardcover book on one of Berlins…

  • Boulevard – On Trespassing and Culture No.1 – CLASSICS

    “Boulevard – On Trespassing and Culture” is a brand new print publication and as the editors state in their explanatory…

  • TAG TOWN – Martha Cooper

    Martha Cooper is best known for publishing SUBWAY ART in 1984. Together with Henry Chalfant she documented the New York…

  • 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…

  • AMSTERDAM ON TOUR – The early signs of Dutch graffiti

    “The year is 1983 A.D.. New York graffiti occupies the globe, the Old Europe is entirely clean and name writing…

  • Groß-Clochard (HUMAN INSIDE)

    “Numerous smartphone snapshots. Frozen snippets of moments from SAEIO’s last trip to Southland. Lightheartedness. Together with two Germans SPAIR &…

  • SEISMOGRAFFITI – No.1

    The author of SEISMOGRAFFITI invited 31 writers to take part in a book project which exclusively focuses on black-and-white drafts.…

  • 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…

  • Hamburg

    For more than 20 years Hamburgs cityscape has been overdrawn by artworks which are attributed to OZ. Since the early…

  • Eruption

    In 2012 in Berlin suddenly a couple of wholecars mostly on the Ringbahn (circle line) appeared. Although a traditional trainwriting…

  • ZAR ZIP FLY ZORO – Die erste Schicht Graffiti in München / The first layer of graffiti in Munich

    It was 7th April 1983 when the German TV channel ZDF aired “Wild Style!” for the first time. The movie…

  • The G-Word: Virtuosity and Violation, Negotiating and Transforming Graffiti.

    Since graffiti became a public phenomenon in the 1970s, there has always been the paradox of its illegal occurrence in…

  • 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…

  • Book of Bott

    Originated from an synonym for shoes “botten” has become a slang-like definition for “running” or as specified in this publication:…

  • 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…

  • Moures – Faces

    When it comes to trainwriting, taking photos of the finished piece is as common as masking your face or using…

  • Antny Kreeg 47 – Kilroy’s Conformity

    „This book is a mix between thoughts I had for a doctoral thesis, writing out my psychotic episodes and a…

  • 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…

  • Forms of Rockin’

    Tracing back the origins of letterforms in graffiti, you’ll find major figures who influenced hundreds of young people in the…

  • Das Gedächtnis der Stadt schreiben / Writing the Memory of the City

    In 2007 Markus Mai and Thomas Wiczak invited 18 other artists with a background in graffitiwriting to join their concept…

  • Guide 03

    Guide 03 is about tags by four Prague based writers. This edition consists of four individual zines put together in…

  • 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…

  • Like Lipstick Traces

    Daily life Polaroids from thirteen graffiti writers – Aroe, C.B.S., Dumbo, Honet, Kegr, O’Clock, Os Cururus, Rate, Remio, Rocky, Scan,…