The guys of Chrome&Black Store London have produced their first train booklets for all you piecers out there! With 25 wholecars for you and your mates to sit around and batter. The booklet has a thick card backing, quality ringbinding and a quality glossy cover….a snip at £7.00, check here
Archive for the ‘Graffiti Media’ Category
24.02.2010
Train Booklets
06.09.2009
Subway World
Subway World is a book about graffiti on subway trains all over the world. What started in New York in the seventies has become an worldwide artform with thousands of artists. The tradition of using subway cars as canvases has been preserved and has become an integrated part of the graffiti movement. Subway World takes you through more than 75 cities and four different continents. Everywhere where there are subway trains there is graffiti. From Moscow in Russia and Tbilsi in Georgia through Hiroshima in Japan, Los Angeles in the USA, Toronto in Canada and Buenos Aires in Argentina to London, Berlin, Milan and Paris in Europe. Subway World gives you hard facts on all the subway systems aswell as short stories and trivia. Includes work by Banos, D30, Rebok, KHC, WUFC-SDK, KetOne, 7DC, EWC, THE, Rocks, RCLS, Mutants, Toy, Lujoss and many more. Cities featured are, among others: Athens, Atlanta, Berlin, Belo Horizonte, Boston, Brasilia, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Chicago, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Helsinki,Hiroshima, Kiev, Kobe, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Miami, Milan, Montréal, Moscow, Nagoya, New York City, Osaka, Oslo, Paris, Philadelphia, Prague, Rome, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Santo Domingo, Stockholm, Seoul, Tbilisi, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, Vienna, Washington DC and Warsaw.
We have a little book preview for you after the jump
Torkel Sjöstrand is a photographer and editor for Underground Productions magazine. His earlier books include 1207, Gates of Graffiti and Overground.
Details:Title: Subway World – Graffiti on trainsAuthor: Torkel Sjöstrand (Dokument)Language: English Number of pages: 160 Format: 23 x 16,7 cm, 9 x 7 inches Binding: Hard cover ISBN 978-91-85639-19-9 Retail price: €24,90, US$ 29.95Release date: September 7, 2009
02.09.2009
London Handstyles
Last week Hot110 saw the launch of a brand new London based graffiti book, London Handstyles. It’s a surprise that a city the size of London with such a rich graffiti culture going back to the 80s has only until recently had it’s own dedicated book. The exhibition itself was simple, no thrills – bombed wall to wall by writers with quotes and images from the book itself lining the walls of The Rarekind Gallery. Alcohol flowed to the beats of our own DJ Getz and others whilst the gallery filled with writers old and new and appreciators of the culture.
See the full Hot110 Report on the Book Release Party and read the interview with the author right here
04.08.2009
We Were Here
"We Were Here, the fabled street book, is now available for download via high and low res PDF’s for whatever price you deem them to be worthy of(hence the fancy donate button on the right 
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Its final weighout is 119 pages, full color, 8"x10" landscape and it’s completely packed with hundreds of photos from all over the land, as well as interviews with Indigo, Seventenths, Shez and Bustart." (…more)
21.07.2009
A Subway Graffiti Artist’s Last Work
"So that subway facade is now considered the last work that was done by Iz the Wiz, arguably the most prolific graffiti artist, and was the site of a candlelight memorial service several days after his death.Tuff City employees are deciding how to preserve the panels — whether to donate them to a museum, make them part of a traveling exhibit or disassemble them for galleries. Inquiries about the panel have come in from around the world. “We’re not sure what is going to happen with it yet,�? Mr. Brick said. “We just know it is not going to be painted over.�?
The full NY Times article "about Iz´s last work before he died here
20.07.2009
Graffiti New York
Former graffiti artist Eric “DEAL CIA�? Felisbret has spent over 30 years documenting New York City graffiti. Luke “SPAR ONE�? Felisbret is a graffiti artist and historian whose work has been widely exhibited. Together they launched www.at149st.com, a documentation of New York City graffiti’s culture and history. James Prigoff is coauthor of the classic Spraycan Art. He lives in Sacramento, California.
"Decades after the movement globalized, New York is still the mecca of graffiti culture. Painting there is a badge of honor, with graffiti artists from around the globe making pilgrimages to New York for that purpose. This is the city where it all began, yet few know the back story. Graffiti New York fills that gap, detailing the concepts, aesthetics, ideals, and social structures that have served as a cultural blueprint for graffiti movements across the world. The book features approximately 1,000 images, complemented by texts by the authors and relevant players in the movement, as well as descriptive graphics and sidebars. Ranging from the birth of simple signature tags to today’s vibrant murals, and covering the ups and downs of the movement, the culture’s value system, its social framework, the various forms of graffiti, and significant artists and crews, Graffiti New York is a major addition to Abrams’ superb books on graffiti art."
Publishing Date: October 10th / AbramsBooks
