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Author: Claudia Walde
Classic graffiti lettering and experimental typographical forms lie at the heart of street culture and have long inspired designers in many different fields. But graffiti artists, who tend to paint the same letters of their tag again and again, rarely design complete alphabets.
Claudia Walde spent over two years collecting alphabets by 154 artists from thirty countries to show the many different styles and approaches to lettering within the graffiti and street art cultures. All of the artists have roots in graffiti. Some are world renowned such as 123 Klan (Canada), Faith47 (South Africa), and Hera (Germany); others are lesser known or only now starting to emerge.
Each artist received the same instructions: design all twenty- six letters of the Latin alphabet within the limits of a single page of the book. How they approached this task and selected the media with which to express their ideas was entirely up to them, and the results encompass not just street art but sketches, sculpture, digital art, and photography.
Softcover, 320 pages, 400 colour illustrations, 8.5" x 11" x 1.2"
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
Award-winning British illustrator Marion Deuchars has returned with a new addition to her popular Let’s Make Some Great Art activity book series. Draw, paint and collage all kinds of amazing patterns with Let’s Make Some Great Art: Patterns, a jam-packed activity book. Spark your imagination and get creative as you make maze patterns, tessellating patterns, mosaics and even multi-coloured marbling patterns.
In this imaginative activity book, Marion Deuchars makes learning about art fun. Young readers discover new ways of making art by being introduced to 18 great artists, learning about the methods, materials, and ideas that made up their masterpieces, and how these can be applied to one’s own creations.
Grouped into sections by artist, each one unfolds a series of creative projects in drawing, painting, printing, and collage based on the artist’s own techniques. At the end of the book is a series of biographies about each artist providing the background on how they became artistic geniuses.
Take your pencil for a walk in the spirit of Paul Klee, experiment with colour and texture like Joan Miró or create your own surrealist-inspired artwork like Salvador Dalí.
Paperback with Flaps, 300 illustrations, 240 pages, Size: 11 x 8 in
ISBN: 9781780672816
• 170 x 240 mm
• Hand – numbered
• 64 Full coloir pages
• Limited to 50 copies
Published by U•DIG Amsterdam, specialists in working with artists from the world over to bring you obscure collections of great content that we can all dig.
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
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