A Student Guide with Teacher's Manual

Students
Do you want to learn to write graffiti? This is the book you need.

Find out how to:
• design your own letter style
• use effects to create a unique tag
• create throw-ups
• include fills and motifs
• paint wildstyle, bubblestyle and blockbusters
• build up large burners
• handle a spray can
• get your work up safely and legally


Teachers
This is the book you need if you want to teach graffiti.

It contains:
• plans for lessons on graffiti – theory and practice
• practical advice for staging safe, hands-on graffiti lessons
• guidance on marking students’ work
• resources covering the origins and cultural history of graffiti
• clear step-by-step explanations to suit students of all abilities
• exercises and solutions

Christoph Ganter, who teaches in Stuttgart, is an experienced graffiti artist who works under the tag ‘Jeroo’. In 2011 he contributed to the book Street Fonts: Graffiti Alphabets from Around the World, which was also published by Thames & Hudson.


29.70 x 21.00 cm, Paperback with flaps, 176pp, With over 300 illustrations, 101 in colour.

• London

• Paris

• Chicago

• Hamburg Berlin

• Toronto

• Moscow

• Rome

• Stockholm Hundreds of millions travel by underground train every day.

The subway is one of the world’s most common means of transport and an environment where many of us spend a great deal of time.

Subway cars are also important “canvases” for the artists behind one of the most widespread modern art movements today – graffiti.

Subway Scrawl is a collection of 10 classic subway designs in a practical notepad.

Bring out your creative side and add your own personality to the cars.

Try your hand at making a New York subway wholecar, scribble diary notes or write a to do list on a London Underground car.

20 x 25 x 0.

5 cm, 50 pages, Softcover.

2001. After a decade of railway graffiti, Opak and the SDK crew stop painting trains in France, caught up in the legal system.

Twelve years later, SNCF accelerates the scrapping of the country’s most beautiful trains and officially announces the death of the famous “petits gris.”

That’s the trigger—Opak goes on a quest to paint all these legendary trains one last time.

In the form of a logbook, Olivier Scuro reveals in the first volume of Painted Graves the details of this adventure and its origins in the 1990s, through numerous archive photos showcasing the works of Opak, Inxs, Honet, Pum, Fancie, Riot, Sime, Milk, Poes, Chill, Acid79, Skeme—to name just a few. A bit of urbex and adrenaline, some nostalgia... and above all, a lot of graffiti.

• Sabotage Editions | ISBN : 9791097946302
• 300 pages
• Text in English and French
• Format: 21x27 cm
• Hardcover binding

Graffiti sketchbook with 60 different spots to paint on – from brick walls to trucks, subways, billboards, and more. Paint quick throw-ups on a truck, a top-to-bottom silver on the Berlin subway, or a colorful burner at a subway station. Unleash your imagination and paint your favourite spots.

The book is printed on thick 200 gsm silk paper, perfect for acrylic-based markers such as Posca or Molotow One4All. It comes in a landscape A5 format with a softbound stitched spine that opens flat. A perfect sketchbook at a really great price.

All images are photographed by the team behind Sketchy Graffiti (no stock photos or AI-generated images). For extra inspiration, follow @sketchygraffiti on Instagram.

Format: Landscape A5, Softcover
Language: No text
Publisher: Spray Daily / Sketchy Graffiti

The two funky yet classic graffiti alphabets created by experienced graffiti artist Mega gives you the opportunity to learn a basic graffiti style, as well as a more advanced wild style.

Each of the alphabet’s 26 letters has its own spread where the building blocks of the letter are carefully displayed next to the specified space for you to practice, along with illustrations of how the letters can be used in different words and names.

In addition to the letters, you will find examples of characteristic elements used in graffiti such as 3D or shades to add depth to the letters, or arrows, stars, bubbles, highlights and shines to make the piece stand out.

Graffiti for Beginners is the fundamental guide for you to learn how to master the alphabet with style and finesse, letter by letter, until you are able to put together complicated words and messages, adding the coloring of your own choice.

Learning graffiti has never been easier or more fun! Graffiti for Beginners suits all ages and is a great tool for advertisers, home stylers, school teachers, kids and creative adults alike.

About the author Your teacher, Mega DNS, born and raised in the north of the Netherlands, has over 35 years experience in writing graffiti.

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His letter style is best described as legible old New York style mixed with European style and most importantly: the letters must have movement and style.

Mega works as a graphic designer for various clients, from record labels and radio stations to retail agencies.

• Author: Mega DNS
• Language: English
• Pages: 56
• Size: 20 x 25 cm
• Illustrations: 300
• Release date: April, 2021
• ISBN: 978-91-88369-50-5

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Introducing the new issue of the Stylefile Blackbook Sessions series, there is once again an update from the most diverse sketchbooks and desks in the scene. From simple studies to detailed full-pagers, whether analogue or digital, everything is included on 160 pages. For some, sketches are merely a necessity and a means to an end, while for others, they are an independent discipline in the field of graffiti. What all of them have in common, however, is that you have to deal intensively with the process of sketching in order to develop your own style. How wide the range of approaches is can be studied in this book. It provides exciting insights into the approaches of the most diverse types of writers. Insights that would remain hidden from most people even in the age of social media.

Sketches in graffiti have always existed. A white sheet of paper and a marker have been the starting point of every good style for years. In the beginning, sketches were only done with normal pens, but soon professional layout markers were part of the writer‘s basic equipment. This was then the measure of all things for decades, but in recent years, new possibilities have helped this genre take another relevant leap: With acrylic markers, it is now finally possible to work with opaque colors and no longer have to use only white paper as a background. But the leap from analogue to digital has also been made by now in the field of sketching in graffiti: Tools like Procreate have recently formed a completely new basis for a whole generation of writers to create works of art with letters. You can notice that for many writers, sketching has established itself over the years as a discipline of its own within the field of graffiti. Due to the expanded technical possibilities, the question of when a work can still be declared a sketch and where a canvas begins can no longer be answered with a clear distinction. For another part of the scene, however, sketches are still a necessity and a means to an end: to further develop one‘s own style or to have something for the next production on the wall or train. What all of them have in common, is that you have to deal intensively with the process of sketching. How wide the range of approaches is can be studied in this book. It provides exciting insights into the approaches of the most diverse types of writers. Insights that would remain hidden to most, even in the age of social media, and that we can now show to a large audience!

Line-up:
ACUT · AEMIR · ALOE · AMIR · AMIT · AMUSE126 · AROME · MR.BAKER · CHECK · CIDE · COPSA · COSMA · CROW · DATOR · DEJOE · DISKO · DOE · DREIST · DREY · EKSIT · ERPEL · FACT · FLASH · FLOR76 · FNACK · FRED · HOKUS · INKA · JEFF · JEROO · JONES · KACAO77 · KAHN · KIEs · LOCO · MAROK · MIND · MONKEY · OSBKUR87 · PAW · PLAQUE · PLAST · RAZOR · REK · RINE · ROLEX · ROLY · RTMONE · RUSTE · SATAN · SEIN12 · SEMOR · SEW · SEWER · SHAW · SLIDER · S.KAPE289 · SOFLY · SOME · SPENDA · SUNCHES · SWET · TOWN · TRES · TRUBA · TRUN · TWIK · VENTS137 · ZAILOR

27 x 16 cm, 160 pages.

Publication of recent travels plus some older ones. It was made in the time I was in Azerbaijan where currently one of our friends is in prison due to geopolitical reasons.

It includes many systems from around the world plus stories of incarceration in Tokyo due to a snitch, Sydney (paperwork) and being embargoed from leaving Baku.

• Hardcover Book with Spot UV
• 262 pages
• 157GSM Gloss paper
• ISBN 978 0 646 70740 2
• Signed and Numbered
• 500 copies only

Tag Town: The Evolution of New York Graffiti Writing 1963 – 1982

From Taki to Basquiat: discover the roots of New York graffiti in Martha Cooper’s iconic photos. 

While graffiti has grown into the largest art movement in history, for every writer it began with their tag, the essential core of the art form.

In Tag Town, renowned documentary photographer Martha Cooper traces New York City’s distinctive style writing from the 1970s through the early 1980s, capturing the development of tagging as the foundation of modern graffiti writing. Her photographs open the door to understanding the culture’s aesthetics and communication.

The book includes rare street pieces by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf, whose early work helped shape the rise of street art, as well as quotes from graffiti pioneers Blade and Snake 1. Long out of print since its first release in 2008, this photographic chronicle explores the evolution of styles, signatures, and street presence offering a vital historical record of urban creativity in public space.

Before street art went global, it all started with a tag.

Pages: 108

Size: 17 x 23 cm