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.

Author: Jennifer Perkins

Remake the ordinary into the extraordinary—crafts for kids ages 8 to 12

Watch kids' eyes light up as they roll up their sleeves and transform ordinary items. Upcycle It! Crafts for Kids shows tweens how to take objects destined for the recycling bin and breathe new life into them to make room decor, organizers, school supplies, and so much more.

What sets this apart from other kids' activity books:

25 purposeful projects - Exciting arts and crafts like Awesome Earbud Case, Cute Critter Cardboard Hangers, and Splatter Paint Sunglasses allow kids to create something that is both useful and fun to make.

Easily accessible supplies - The crafts in this book repurpose everyday items you likely have lying around, so there's no need to spend lots of money or schedule a trip to the store.

Clear instructions - Kids will have no trouble tackling these crafts thanks to simple directions that are paired with beautiful pictures to guide them through the process. Inspire ingenuity and eco-friendly habits with Upcycle It! Crafts for Kids.

ISBN: 9781638071327
Imprint: Callisto Kids
Format: Paperback
Pages: 114

Screenprinting is in the midst of a popular revival among beginners, students, hobbyists and experts alike. This is the essential studio workbook, built upon the expertise gained through the thousands of classes taught by the team at Print Club London over the last decade. The information on materials and techniques, along with tips and insights, including what to do if something doesn’t go to plan, will ensure today’s creatively minded screenprinters will be able to produce eye-catching work of their own. The book also gives valuable advice to the budding screenprinter on how to organise an exhibition or screenprinting event and promote and sell their work.

Here both basic principles and advanced techniques are clearly presented to show how the very best contemporary work has been printed. Inspirational step-by-steps with leading artists, illustrators and designers, such as Ben Eine and Rob Ryan, are included. In each step-by-step original work is created to showcase a key process or technique such as hand-cut stencils, colour blending and mono printing.

Deliciously fresh and visual, with specially commissioned photographs and authored by a vibrant, creative group working and teaching at the very epicentre of the contemporary screenprinting scene, this book is the complete modern guide for screenprinters of all levels of knowledge and skill, and will have a vital presence in their studios and workshops.

About the Author -
Print Club London is a leading print studio specialising in the art, practice, teaching and exhibition of screenprinting. Established in 2007, and now with over 500 members, as well as providing studio space and selling design pieces, Print Club works with clients on projects ranging from bespoke bags for Stella McCartney to live printing projects in stores with Nike.

Paperback with flaps, 29 x 21 cm, 288 pages

A Beginner's Workbook for the Creative Art of Drawing Letters

Learn the basics of letterforms and styles, tools and materials, and practice eight different alphabets created exclusively for this book. With step-by-step instructions and exercises, this workbook will guide you through the process of learning the techniques and skills necessary to create beautiful, unique lettering.

Hand Lettering and Beyond suits all ages and is a great tool for advertisers, home stylers, school teachers, creative kids and adults alike.You’ll learn the basics of letterform structure, spacing and alignment, and progress to more advanced techniques where you will be able to design your own beautiful letters as well as creating letter images with composition and decorative embellishments that make your text stand out.

Whether you’re a beginner or looking to improve your existing lettering skills, this workbook is an excellent way to release your creativity. Explore the medium, be creative, make an impact and immerse yourself in the world of letters, design and shapes.

Hand Lettering and Beyond 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 colouring of your own choice.

Sofie Björkgren-Näse is an experienced lettering artist. She is a full-time freelance letterer who have created lettering work for numerous international companies and shared the joy of hand lettering with thousand of workshop participants.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to elevate your hand lettering to the next level!

Author: Sofie Björkgren-Näse

ISBN 9789188369802

20 x 25 cm

Make your words beautiful and unique, with these elegant hand-lettering styles.

Professional hand-lettering artist Kate Forrester presents twenty-six of her most popular scripts in easy-to-follow exercises. Ranging from fluid calligraphic styles to antique mosaics, there's an alphabet here for every occasion. Display capitals, in bold colours, also appear, lifting this book far above the competition.

Paperback, 224 Pages, 165 x 135mm

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! Measures: 30 x 21 x 3 cm

The Street Art Manual is an illicit, tactical handbook to creating art in public and taking over urban space.

Every type of street art is covered, from painting graffiti, to light projections, stenciling, wheat pasting and mural making, with each technique illustrated with step-by-step drawings.

Arm yourself with the tips and knowledge that no other guide will give you and go out and reclaim the streets in the name of urban creativity.

• 128 pages

A rich source of inspiration for anyone interested in do-it-yourself culture.

Graffiti Cookbook is a guide to the materials and techniques used within today’s most creative and progressive art movement. In hundreds of pictures and illustrations and a dozen of interviews with some of the world’s most famous artists the authors show how graffiti is made.

From spray techniques and hand styles to tools and style analysis, Graffiti Cookbook takes us on a trip around the world in the search of the tricks and trades of graffiti writers. After hundreds of books filled with pictures of graffiti published in the last few years finally one is showing how the artists work.

Graffiti Cookbook is filled with tips and examples of how to create your own piece, tag and throw up. These techniques can be used on all kinds of materials, textile, glass, metal, concrete or wood. Graffiti Cookbook gives an unique insight in the alternative art world and is a rich inspiration source for those interested in do-it-yourself-culture.

Swet, Jurne, Mad C, Skil, Egs and Chob are some of the featured artists in the book.

Pages: 140 pages, Softcover.