Graffiti

R.I.P. is a brilliant collection of photographs documenting the best of New York City's memorial murals painted for the victims of tragic and untimely deaths. A new generation of graffiti artists has hit the streets and is decorating neighborhood walls with this innovative public art.

".. I shall never be pressed into a life of slowly wasting away. Idealism is no foreign word to the graffiti scene, it is something that is taken for granted." (Cor) 

South Africa

The focus of this book is to present the letter construction and artist ideas behind graffiti on paper. Numerous aspects of the style are explored: new school vs. old school, 2D vs. 3D, and characters vs. letters.

Since emerging from the underground. Graffiti Art has exploded as the most significant movement in contemporary Art History. Interviews with writers, street scenes and over 200 tags, throw-ups and pieces, plus the winning artwork of the First International Graffiti Art Competition. 

Readers will learn to create their own finished graffiti-style artwork using basic drawing techniques to create completed, colourful scenes.

•  Written and illustrated by industry insiders

• Definitive book on capturing hip-hop style in art

Hip-hop is more than baggy jeans and explicit song lyrics. It's a cultural force that influences everything we see and everything we hear.

This unique drawing tutorial gives artists and in-depth look at the styles that make the Japanese urban and hip hop trend the dominant culture it is today. It takes artists through some of the distinctive urban environments, city living conditions, and youth entertainment that are essential elements in drawing urban-hip hop manga.

Brash, bold and breakin' all the rules, Beat Street is a powerful and "gritty streetwise musical" (LA Herald-Examiner).

Some call it tagging, some call it writing, still others call it bombing--it's all graffiti. Whether it's art or not is another matter, but it's undeniably illegal. Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's historic PBS documentary Style Wars tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.