Ancient Graffiti
• Perhaps the most famous graffito of the ancient world, The Alexamenos Graffito.
The History of Graffiti
• New York Magazine's article on the history of graffiti, with a nice annotated timeline.
• Wikipedia offers a nice synopsis of the history of modern graffiti art.
• A UC Berkeley synopsis on the history of graffit.
• Seenworld - the website of one of the great/notorious pioneers of early graffiti, "Seen."
Modern Graffiti and Related Disciplines
• Graffiti Archaeology - a famous new study of the process of graffiti layering over time.
• PureGraffiti.com has an immense archive/gallery of user-submitted photos of graffiti from around the world. You will need to sign-up (make an account) to access this gallery, but signing-up is free and they don't (seem) to send you junkmail/spam.
• Graffiti Taxonomy is a nascent project to collect and generate a taxonomy of graffiti "tag" fonts.
• Graffiti Creator - a web-based graffiti generator (it's fun).
Downloadable (free!) Graffiti 'Tag' Fonts
• From 1001Fonts.com: Turntablz BB, TagsXtreme v2, TagsXtreme2 v2, Grand Stylus, Bring Tha Noize v2, Degrassi (a 'piece' wildstyle font), Some's Style
Stencil and Sticker Graffiti - The New Trends
• Here are some good photo galleries of stencil graffiti from around the world: Schhh Stencil Gallery, Stencil Revolution, Stencil Pirates.
• Shepard Fairey's Obey Giant website.
1 comment:
Thanks, Tim, for the good references. I'm a fan of Shepard Fairey's work mirroring the old Bolshevik posters - also Banksy and Faile.
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