Graffiti, Marker & Spray Cans

Graffiti culture through tools and technique—spray paint mastery, can control, and the traditions of European train writing and tagging. Discover artist profiles, technical skill development, and the underground graffiti scene.

This collection documents traditional graffiti practice, abstract styles, and the culture surrounding train writing, removal art, and legal walls. Explore how graffiti writers develop technical skill, the social dimensions of the scene, and documentaries that capture this crucial street art tradition.

Sand Graffiti: DAIM on the Beach

Famous German 3D graffiti artist Mirko Reisser aka DAIM, who is well-known also from posters and TV, just spent a day at a beach. Probably because the sun was long in coming, DAIM started to build his version of a proper drip castle - a sand graffiti showing his name in his well-known three-dimensional style… On his own admission, it took him 6 hours to build this great, but still somehow unsteady letter sculpture. Whereas it just took 30 minutes for the sea to destroy it again. For that reason, you maybe could call this result of a graffiti maestro playing at the beach a temporary sand graffiti installation or just an urban sandcastle! ...

Graffiti Sponsorships - A Heart for Toys

Did you know that 20,000 Toys worldwide have no access to fresh spraypaint and that Every day 5000 toys do scrapcan tags over good pieces? Because of his big heart for Toys and the fact that this is only the tip of the iceberg, graffiti writer Lush just found the new “charity” ToyVision, a humanitarian fund for graffiti toys, who are in desperate need for some spray paint and guidance from the elders… ...

Calligraphica - Hand Drawn Type & Calligraphy

I just spent the last 30 minutes zapping through Calligraphi.ca, a nice tumblr just about calligraphy and hand drawn type! Calligraphica features the calligraphically works by a dozen talented urban artists, designers and taggers, namely Andrei Robu, Eduard Dimasov, Giuseppe Salerno, Greg Papagrigoriou, Joluvian, Kinessisk, Luke Lucas, Michel D’anastasio, Misha Karagezyan, Sergey Shapiro, Spit and Theosone. Using flat brushes and paint on walls, wooden sticks and ink on paper, calligraphy pens or brush pens, those dudes know what they are doing. But in my eyes, especially Greg Papagrigoriou is killin’ it! ...

Win Your Montana Acrylic Marker Set!

Hey folks, good news for all the creative heads among yourselves: We’re starting into this week with a small lottery, giving away three Montana Acrylic Marker Sets sponsored by Inflammable.com, your sneaker and graffiti shop! Each Montana Acrylic Marker Set (see teaser photo) includes, in addition to several smaller things like an USB stick and pencils, three markers and refill paint! All you have to do to win is to follow at least one of the following instructions: ...

Open Streets - Post Graffiti Documentary Trailer

Open Streets is really interesting-looking documentary about the so-called post graffiti/ urban art scene. Put together by French Shock Films collective, the film features with Belin, Cope2, ECB, Klub7, MadC, Monk.E, One Hate Seven and Nychos several worldwide well-known artists who left behind street art and graffiti and stepped further to what usually is called post graffiti or urban art… Open Streets is about this important development in the public art scene and tries to explore reasons, motivations and ideals of its creative protagonists. Recently, the first trailer was published, giving some first insights into the entire documentary, its structure and the artists. ...

Behind the Scenes - The Da Mental Vaporz Story

As I already mentioned here, here and here French Da Mental Vaporz crew (DMV) is my most favorite European graffiti crew. Recently they came up with a beautiful behind the scenes video… The Crew Da Mental Vaporz was born in 1999 at the initiative of Bom.k and Iso in the Paris suburbs. Soon joined by Kan, they stand out by making huge frescoes in the sordid land of the southern suburbs, giving the most to topics outside the tradition of graffiti (hitherto confined to the sacrosanct lettering / comic book character bubbles). Thus, their productions, that can extend over tens of meters high and long, depict the monstrous madness, upholstery and imminent end of time. ...

WTF: RNG Graffiti Action in Moscow

On a hot-looking sunny day last week, RNG crew went big in Moscow! Although they cross handshaked each other (in Germany there’s a saying that cross shaking hands is going to bring ill luck) the RNG crew was in luck or well-prepared when they bombed that huge noise barrier in Moscow, some of them just wearing pants… This, in addition to the almost legendary CHO crew actions and the beautiful tram graffiti, is a conformation for my personal theory about graffiti in Russia, Russian crews and the somehow visible Russian mentality. Anyway, this RNG bombing was a huge effort - show them your love! ...

Global Graffiti Documentary: Bomb It 2, Fall 2012

The global graffiti documentary Bomb It 2 is in its final stages of post-production and will be released in fall 2012! After all the different Bomb It 2 video parts were already published back in 2010, this is the final step… In the sequel to Bomb It Jon Reiss travels to Bangkok, Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, the Palestinian refugee camps on the West Bank, Perth, Melbourne, Copenhagen, Chicago and Austin and features artists including Klone, Know Hope, Great Bates, Huskmitnavn, Ash, Phibs, Stormie Mills, and many more. ...

Nawer vs. Temporary Space Design

During the Katowice Street Art Festival in Poland, popular urban artist Nawer (remember his great collaboration with Graphic Surgery?) teamed up again with the motion graphic artists of Temporary Space Design and created a pretty great multimedia installation! Like other projects they did together, this installation explores space in two dimensional graphics. The attempt to breathe life into an image and bring a sense of motion and dynamic to a static form is in my opinion a really interesting approach, allowing to create impressing results as you can see in the video documenting also parts of the progress. ...

Revok Interview

Los Angeles graffiti writer Revok of The Seventh Letter is a living US-American graffiti legend. Last year, he showed his Triumph and Tragedy series at Vicious Gallery in Hamburg and now, he is back with a great collaboration between the world’s first social merchandising company The Hundreds and The Seventh Letter… Police, they don’t care about graffiti. Talking about some private details of Revok’s life, his career being a graffiti writer and his thoughts about the police, this pretty interview looks like a nice prelude for an even more extensive one coming soon. I’m looking forward to it! ...