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Yet traditional standards of beauty aside, it is interesting how the style of graffiti writing has so ... whether it’s Giant’s lettering that seems almost severed out of the skin or Ces ...
In New York, bands of urchin-artisans took up Cornbread’s style—stick letters, tags—and made it an art form. Graffiti now adorns the walls of museums from Brooklyn to Berlin, and sells for ...
At the Overspray Graffiti Camp, participants learned how to emulate that style. Oversized flashcards showing examples of bubble and block letters, and one that gave an overview of the history of ...
serifs or numbers standing in for letters, help cops link multiple tags to a single person. Like most experts in the field, Kirby-Glatkowski says the best way to rid the city of graffiti ...
“He had a natural gift or ability to stylize letters,” said Alan Ket, a founder of the Museum of Graffiti in Miami, adding that he “continued to develop styles that were pioneering or just ...
But all this ignores the fact that over the years, most graffiti artists develop and perfect their own lettering style. Even throw-ups and tags which to an untrained eye seem banal and meaningless ...
The New Orleans Jazz Fest will include graffiti-style murals by Arizona artists Douglas Miles and Thomas "Breeze" Marcus. The 2013 fest places an emphasis on the arts, culture and cuisine of ...
We have an exclusive look at Freddy Alva’s forthcoming book, Urban Styles: Graffiti in New York Hardcore. The book is an ode to the vibrant, emerging hardcore punk scene in New York of the late ...
Gabriela Portilho for The New York Times Brazil is known for a type of graffiti called pixação, a cryptic lettering style rooted in protest against corruption and inequality. The streets of São ...