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.
Published by Graffiti Alphabet Street Fonts From Around the World , 2 months ago
If you're into typography like I am but getting a little bored with the fonts.....then this book is for you.
The minute I opened it a huge smile covered my face. Graffiti is a whole other kind of typography art and this book keeps it simple and beautiful. Remember Coffee Table Books? Well this is definitely worthy of being one. The pages are bright the art is unique the fonts are all different which made me want to jump in right away to learn how to sketch them out. I look over the book time and time again and always catch something I hadn't seen before. Now keep in mind it's not a learning tool. I've used it like I've used my other typography books when learning a new font. Complete new alphabets. This isn't a cheap book but buying from this app saved me a good 20+ dollars. This is just a beautiful book. I strongly suggest buying it from this app due to the low price however I would've paid full price easily. I am a satisfied customer.
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