Want to learn Graffiti? Then this book is just right for you!

On 352 pages, you will find everything you need to start with the spray can theory. The GRAFFITI BIBLE provides a comprehensive knowledge of the basics you should know if you are serious about the can, and explains the most diverse techniques as well as the most important styles.

But this publication can do even more than comparable learning books, because the content is extended by a very interesting facet, offering an insight into the graffiti culture itself through interviews with world famous graffiti writers like BATES, NYCHOS, CHAS, MADC, ASKEW and others. The Kings & Queens of the scene tell us their story and secrets of how they became the best writers in the world. In addition, you can study their works from the beginning to their current professional level!

The author is Eske Touborg, who has specialized in publishing graffiti literature since 2014 and has already published several smaller titles. Eske now bundles all his knowledge in this comprehensive guide, which more than deserves the name GRAFFITI BIBLE. Amen!

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Size: 30 x 21 x 3 cm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 354
Language: English
Year: 2021
Publisher: Publikat Publishing
Author: Eske Touborg
ISBN/EAN: –

RAZOR is and remains an exceptional phenomenon when it comes to graffiti on trains – worldwide and across all generations! For more than 30 years now, he has been playing his colourful game – mainly in the yards of his home in northern Germany, but trips across the nation and Europe have also been documented in this book.

In every phase of his busy career, he has managed to stand out from the great mass of writers and to constantly raise the bar in terms of quality. The output of his first two decades was still to be found in classic stylewriting, but in recent years he has expanded his repertoire to include conceptual works such as his ICE project. RAZOR – COLORS ON STEEL is structured like a blackbook and has a very personal character. He himself opens the book with the following words:

“Let’s start a blackbook session! Take your time, sit back and enjoy. I’ll show you my blackbook with my works from back in the days when it all began in 1990. It all started first at the end of the 1980s when I was infected by a virus called graffiti. From that point on I did graffiti wherever I wanted to and whenever I wanted to. I’ll show you my photos and I will tell you lots of stories, some crazy, some funny and with all those little details and in the same manner, like I would tell them to my friends.”

The book was already self-published in 2017 and is now coming to graffiti shops for the first time via the third and expanded edition.

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Size: 30 x 21,5 cm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 196
Language: English
Year: 2021
Publisher: Publikat Publishing
Author: RAZOR
ISBN/EAN: 978.3.939566-56-4

Architektur, Typografie und Graffiti sind von jeher eng verbunden. Vielen Writern dient die Architektur als Leinwand, auf der mit Typografie und Graffiti experimentiert wird. Dabei hat nahezu jeder Writer schon einmal einen eigenen Font gestaltet oder zumindest darüber nachgedacht, aus den Buchstaben, die er für seine Arbeit an der Wand entwirft, ein komplettes ABC zu bauen.

Die Publikation versammelt zahlreiche Legenden des Graffitis, die teils eigens für diesen Anlass neue Fonts in ihrem jeweils unverwechselbaren Stil geschaffen haben. Mit seinen unterschiedlichen Beiträgen feiert Typograffiti den grafischen und kulturellen Ausdruck der Writer und zeigt die Lebendigkeit der Szene ebenso wie die Aktualität ihrer Fonts.

Das Buch stellt alle Writer und ihre Schriften ausführlich vor, enthält begleitende Statements sowie Aufnahmen der Fonts in der Anwendung auf der Wand. So versteht sich die Publikation als Inspiration für Sprüher, Schriftgestalter, Grafiker und Kunstinteressierte.

Mit Arbeiten von:

AKUT, AMIT 2.0, ASEM, ASH, BIRNE, CARIO, CHRISTIAN DÜNOW, DELTA, DAIKER, DRIK THE VILLAIN, DXTR, DYSET, ECB, FUME, GÁBOR DOLEVICZÉNYI , GISMO, HEIZER, HOKER IKE86 INKA, JEKS, JUSER, KID CRAP, MAJO BROTHERS, MATTHIAS GEPHART, MEXER, M05K, MR. PARADOX PARADISE, LOOMIT, OHM ONE, OMEGA, ORDINARIO, OTITO, PHIK, RIOT1394, SEIKON, SEMOR, SHIO, SIGN, SILE, SIRAS, SOME1, SVEN DROBNITZA, THE DISO, TOAST, TOP NOTCH, VERTIGO, WON, ZMEL u. a.

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Size: 20 x 25 cm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 248
Language: German
Year: 2021
Publisher: Verlag kettler
Author: Jonny Bauer, Joe Hennig
ISBN/EAN: 978-3-86206-922-4

How&Nosm – The Brazil Diaries is an intimate look at the Perre twins’ art explorations in Brazil. European graffiti artists and muralists residing in New York City, How&Nosm found that living in a society whose strict laws deny writers their right to self-expression meant they had to satisfy their creative appetite elsewhere. The solution was to travel to places with a greater understanding and tolerance for graffiti and street art. These trips were liberating and soon transformed from a desire, to a routine, to an addiction. They have painted in more than 60 countries thus far, with Brazil in particular proving to be the perfect playground for this ever-active duo.

With a limited color palette in hand, How&Nosm create striking murals laced with social commentary. Their signature black, white and red intricate patterns, stark line work and stylized forms heighten the intensity of the message.

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Size: 24,3 x 16,7 cm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Language: English
Year: 2011
Publisher: On the Run
Author: –
ISBN/EAN: 9783937946320

New York City is the birthplace of graffiti style writing. It is the place where young writers first began to transform letters from simple tags on a wall to elaborate masterpieces of colorful and camoflauged letters embellished with characters that depicted friends and heroes alike.

By the 1980s the artwork was quickly destroyed by authorities and the artists seeking to preserve some of their works took hold of schoolyards around the city to paint grander works. It was a no-nonsense approach to save their art form and spread their fame to the local kids. The most famous of these schoolyards is located in East Harlem on 106th street and Park Avenue and it became known as the Hall of Fame.

At first the Hall of Fame was established to bring together the best artists in the city and have them paint in the same schoolyard supplanting the number 5 train as the showcase place for the best graffiti art in New York. Over the years as the word spread artists from around the city would sneak in and leave their work at night in this unsanctioned museum. From Skeme, Dez, and Daze in the early 1980s to Vulcan, Jon One, and Dome in the late 1980s to Part, Ezo, and TDS rejuvenating the schoolyard with style in the 1990s to TC5 (West, Dash, Psycho, Wane, Cope2, etc.), TDS (Flite, Part, Noc167, Serve, T-Kid170), TATS (Bio, BG183, Nicer, How, Nosm, Sen2) crews tight productions in the 2000s to the writers that travel to New York to paint there today this book documents the exciting artwork that was created in a small obscure school in Harlem that became known as the legendary Hall of Fame.

Join us on this artistic retrospective of the famous and important New York landmark, the Graffiti Hall of Fame.

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Size: 24,3 x 16,7 cm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Language: English
Year: 2013
Publisher: On the Run
Author: –
ISBN/EAN: 9783937946375