|
Loading... Street Logosby Tristan Manco
LibraryThing recommendationsMember recommendationsLoading...
won't like
will probably not like
will probably like
will like
will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  angellreads | Jul 15, 2007 |  A great place to gain appreciation for graffiti and street art. This book gave credibility to the art form. (  ) pabarrett | Jun 27, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
References to this work on external resources.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Book description |
|
Graffiti art is constantly changing. Fresh coats of paint and newly pasted posters appear overnight in cities across the world. New artists, new ideas, and new tactics displace faded images in a perpetual process of renewal and metamorphosis. From Los Angeles to Barcelona, Stockholm to Tokyo, Melbourne to Milan, wall spaces are a breeding ground for graphic and typographic forms as artists unleash their daily creations.
Current graffiti art is reflective of the world around it. Using new materials and techniques, its innovators are creating a language of forms and images infused with contemporary graphic design and illustration. Fluent in branding and graphic imagery, they have been replacing tags with more personal logos and shifting from typographic to iconographic forms of communication.
Street Logos is a worldwide celebration of these new developments in twenty-first-century graffiti, an essential sourcebook for all art and design professionals, and a delight to everyone excited by the vitality of the street. 423 color illustrations.
(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400)
The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details.
Quick Links |
| Ebooks | Audio | Swap |
| — | — | 1/16 |
Wikipedia in English (10)
This book mainly focuses on artists based in Europe and the US, who have abandoned the traditional graffiti text tag for graphic logos or art pieces. Highlights individual artists with photos of their work and a couple paragraphs about their start and philosophy. My favorites were the pixelated Eiffel tower, the space invader mosaics, the plugs, and the art of urban warfare army guys.
Super Fun book to just flip through. (