SPAIR. Five letters which appear mostly as chrome and black tags, rooftops, line- and streetpieces all across the city of…
Within the graffiti culture trains are more than just a means to the end for getting your name up more…
In the late 1990s and early 2000s the Berlin based DRM crew have been one of the most famous trainwriting…
In recent years various books have been published which did spotlight the arrival of New York graffiti in the early…
Pixação is a completely unique form of letter writing developed in São Paulo, Brazil in the 1980s. The black, extremely…
Almost ten years ago the author Kat Dogtok for the first time discovered the zig-zag-lined signature in a forest on…
Hoboism is an North American phenomenon describing the nomadic lifestyle of iternant workers who moved from town to town by…
Martha Cooper is best known for publishing SUBWAY ART in 1984. Together with Henry Chalfant she documented the New York…
Following the stale traditional graffiti type hierarchy, letter pieces can be executed as hasty throw-ups, large-scale, well readable bombings and…
In its 50th issue the established German art magazine KUNSTFORUM International did introduce Graffiti for the first time as the…
“The year is 1983 A.D.. New York graffiti occupies the globe, the Old Europe is entirely clean and name writing…
“Numerous smartphone snapshots. Frozen snippets of moments from SAEIO’s last trip to Southland. Lightheartedness. Together with two Germans SPAIR &…
The author of SEISMOGRAFFITI invited 31 writers to take part in a book project which exclusively focuses on black-and-white drafts.…
Painting freighttrains became more and more attractive to European writers within the last 15 years. After decades in which boxcar…
The passion to paint trains is often combined with a big enthusiasm for trains, different and rare models and their…
For more than 20 years Hamburgs cityscape has been overdrawn by artworks which are attributed to OZ. Since the early…
Im Jahre 2012 entdeckt die Autorin des vorliegenden Buchs Kat Dogtok erstmals in einem Waldstück außerhalb von Leipzig eine Art…
Dortmund is one of the few German cities in which the classic 1980s movies and books from New York on…
The “art inconsequence”-movie, which was published in 2007 is a milestone concerning the avantgardistic approach of the featured material. Although…
Tracing back the origins of letterforms in graffiti, you’ll find major figures who influenced hundreds of young people in the…
In 2007 Markus Mai and Thomas Wiczak invited 18 other artists with a background in graffitiwriting to join their concept…
The work of SPAIR is omnipresent in Berlin. Whether rooftops, linepieces or streetpieces – also in the most uncommon places…
18 Thesen hat Oliver Kuhnert in „The Death of Graffiti“ zum vermeintlichen Tod von Graffiti niedergeschrieben. In seiner Fundamentalkritik benennt…
Daily life Polaroids from thirteen graffiti writers – Aroe, C.B.S., Dumbo, Honet, Kegr, O’Clock, Os Cururus, Rate, Remio, Rocky, Scan,…
The Vienna collective Cargokult publishes its first book on the topic of freight trains. The result is a high-quality publication,…
