Graffiti Alphabets: Street Fonts from Around the World Claudia Walde
Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Differently form today, the graffiti of the '80s and the '90s were mainly made of letters and few images in poor and degraded areas of the city,” says Grimmeau. Today we're so used to working with digital fonts that we sometimes look at a piece of hand-lettering and ask, “What font is that? Mar 2, 2013 - For a few years now the capital of England has been able to boast of having in its streets some of the most important works or urban art in the whole world, adding to the attraction of the city. One only Despite details of his personal life and identity remaining unknown they believe that he is from Bristol and around 30 years old. May 18, 2012 - He wanted to prove this to the world, to create a painting to show the people around him, and indeed, the world, graffiti meant to him. Messages laid out in blocks of text, fonts and images. These graffiti were also They want to tell the people to look around themselves. Local graffiti "vandals" have a new artistic outlet - creating for-hire murals around the city. Apr 13, 2014 - The building is quiet, cold, abandoned. Two street artists from the Calgary area have been scoping the place out for a week, long enough to be confident they can hang out here for hours unnoticed. Seattle's secretive graffiti world steps out of the shadows. Berry Both take letters and turn them into visual forms that have more to do with art than with communication. May 15, 2011 - "Graffiti in Belgium are illegal and, differently from other cities in the world, there are no walls legally used for street art display of graffiti. € Not only spray then, but stencils, fonts, stickers, images, tags and out-and-out paintings. Berry weighs in on Seattle graffiti: Art or type? But the The work 'Twenty First Century City' is like many of the works of Ben Eine in that it is characterised by using letters of varying fonts. Oct 28, 2013 - Type expert John D.