Notes with style! The FLAME pallet notepad is not only practical but also a real eye-catcher. Inspired by real FLAME boxes, the notepad stands on a detailed mini Euro pallet – perfect for your desk, studio, or as a cool gift.

Features:
• 600 sheets – enough space for your ideas (without adhesive strips)
• Stylish print: "GET FAME WITH FLAME"
• Authentic design: FLAME boxes on a mini Euro pallet
• Dimensions: 7.6 cm x 11.5 cm x 8 cm – compact & practical

This is a replica of Akay’s first blackbook. The production of the original began in the autumn of 1986, when 16-year-old Akay glued a spray paint color sample chart onto the first page of an unassuming, standard-sized sketchbook. Through his nightly additions of sketches and photographs and newspaper clippings until the spring of 1990, the personal document of a prolific graffiti writer became this unintentional chronicle of an era of Stockholm graffiti.

There’s a brief gap in Akay’s meticulous record-keeping from just before Christmas of 1988 when his dad confiscated his original blackbook and locked it inside a bank safety deposit box. His dad threatened to throw it in the fire if Akay didn’t stop painting graffiti. A few weeks after the blackbook was taken hostage, two policemen showed up at Akay’s dad’s house with a search warrant. Akay and Weird were told to wait in the kitchen while the police searched Akay’s basement bedroom looking for evidence to build their case against him—things like photos or sketches, or even better, all that evidence conveniently glued into a book along with the dates and locations written next to the pieces. But thanks to his dad’s failed attempts at parental extortion (and no thanks to his dad’s wife who kept offering the cops coffee and refreshments), the police didn’t find anything incriminating. The only slightly suspicious thing the police could find was an artfully arranged display of 280 colorful spray cans, Akay’s most prized possession at the time—second only to the imprisoned blackbook—that brightened up his windowless room.

Now, over 30 years later, long after the contents can be used as evidence in any prosecutable crimes or for manipulative parenting tactics, the blackbook from Akay’s teenage years has been reproduced and made available for the first time. This is the second edition.

Fold outs come in a package with instructions on how to glue them in.

Measures: 34 x 25cm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 154

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.