Posts tagged with ‘graffiti’

  • 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…

  • 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 – #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…

  • Illegale Zeichnungen

    Following the stale traditional graffiti type hierarchy, letter pieces can be executed as hasty throw-ups, large-scale, well readable bombings and…

  • FreightTrainWorks – Jens Besser

    In the summer of 2017 Jens Besser realized the FreightTrainWorks exhibition as part of the Urban Script Continues series in…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Gossenpost No.3 – Tags & T-Ups

    One year after the release of the “Marker Issue” the guys behind Gossenpost did add another issue to their series:…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Sprühlinien – Emmett E. (2nd Edition)

    Destroy- or Terrorlines appear in different places in Berlin. Each line has its own history and sometimes also expresses the…

  • Boxcar Magazin – Zwei

    Only one year after the release of the first Boxcar magazine, the second one lines up to give this high…

  • 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…

  • The history of graffiti in Greece 1984 – 1994

    In 1984 the graffiti writing culture has been transported from New York City to the whole world in movies like…

  • 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…

  • Konsens Berlin 2017

    „Konsens Berlin“ is a project that combines a colorful mix of artists – all related to graffiti and the city…

  • Cargocolor Nummervier

    In their fourth print issue the guys behind Cargocolor united 16 specials under the topic of darkness. Each of the…

  • Cargocolor Nummerdrei

    After the first two issues of the Cargocolor magazine only had to offer photographic content just like their blog, this…

  • 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…

  • Der Edelstein – Rauschen

    “Rauschen” takes the reader on a stroll through Berlin, stopping at writings which stand out from the perpetual flow of…

  • 32 Notes on Graffiti

    The concept behind “32 Notes of Graffiti” couldn’t be more simple. Besides the two pages every participant has been given…

  • 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…

  • Jürgen Große – Urban Art Photography

    In the 2000s Berlin developed from a European large city with roots in a traditional writing history, dating back into…

  • 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…