Книги о граффити, стрит-арте и urban art искусстве

The popularity of sticker art has rocketed among contemporary urban artists, but the medium's history stretches back to the 1950s and is intertwined with the growth of the advertising industry. Countless urban artists have cited the fight against ubiquitous consumer manipulation as their reason for choosing to work so publicly in the streets.

In the early 20th century the medium became popular with the Dadaists; in the 1960s artists started to use large-size posters. In the late 1970s, the so-called 'Suicide Club' and 'Billboard Liberation Front' became known through their altered advertising posters. Only a few urban artists revealed their identities and they often felt ill at ease in the sterile atmosphere of galleries, chose their own paths and captured their own audiences.

However, the greatest creative act of rebellion in urban spaces was the graffiti movement ...

Stickerbomb is the first collectable, fully peelable sticker book featuring illustration, graffiti and graphics. It is filled with an amazing collection of more than 250 specially commissioned stickers by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world. An essential part of the street art movement, inexpensive and easy to produce, stickers often act as an informal business card for graffiti writers, and a quick and effective promotional tool for many artists and illustrators. As more and more stickers are placed around major cities in the world, interest in the subject keeps growing. Many street art books to date have featured photographs of stickers spotted in urban environments. Packed with examples of the real thing, Stickerbomb offers the fun of peeling, sticking, owning and collecting cool stickers

With over 240 fully peelable stickers, Stickerbomb 3 presents the most exciting work from a fresh lineup of global artists, illustrators and graffiti writers. The book will appeal to existing fans of the Stickerbomb series, as well as new sticker enthusiasts discovering it for the first time.

About the Author:

The SRK (Studio Rarekwai) is a creative studio based in London and Jakarta. The SRK has worked with Polydor Records, ARTE TV, the BBC, Channel4, Film4, MTV, SONAR, Spaceshower TV and a number of international NGOs. Their books include RackGaki, Graffiti Asia, and the Stickerbomb series (all Laurence King).

Stickerbomb Letters features an extensive assortment of cool and quirky font and typography designs. Including both alphabets on their own and type slogans, the stickers are fun for everyone to play with, and to use to create their own words from individual letters.

This collectable, fully-peelable sticker book is filled with an amazing collection of over 500 stickers created by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world.

Selected artists include: Chato, Dabs, Darbotz, Helen Mycroft, Jo Contino, Niark1, Redy, Remi Rough, TuTu indo and the YokStickerbomb Letters features an extensive assortment of cool and quirky font and typography designs. Including both alphabets on their own and type slogans, the stickers are fun for everyone to play with, and to use to create their own words from individual letters.

This collectable, fully-peelable sticker book is filled with an amazing collection of over 500 stickers created by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world.

Selected artists include: Chato, Dabs, Darbotz, Helen Mycroft, Jo Contino, Niark1, Redy, Remi Rough, TuTu indo and the Yok.

Stickerbomb Monsters features an extensive assortment of fantastic and scary monster designs. Including weird and wonderful creatures ranging from zombies and ghosts to spaghetti monsters and love bugs, the stickers are fun for everyone to play with, and to use to create their very own beastly collections.

Selected artists include: Vladimir Stankovic, Alex Young, Iain Burke, Johnny Ryan, Ronzo and Sunil Pawar.

This collectable, fully-peelable sticker book is filled with an amazing set of 250 stickers created by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world.

About the Author:

Stickerbomb creates collectable sticker books, featuring illustration, graffiti and graphics from around the globe. Since 2008 the team has released more than 10 publications, becoming an essential part of the street art and sticker movement.

This new book of fully peelable stickers, compiled by the Stickerbomb team, brings together the best skateboard stickers – both classic and new – from the 1970s to today.

From Jim Philip’s legendary drawings for Santa Cruz, to the innovative, graphic-led creations from Girl and Alien Workshop, Stickerbomb Skate illustrates the central role that stickers have played in skate culture.

Including five legendary skate brands – Alien Workshop, REAL, Toy Machine, Girl and Santa Cruz – and featuring interviews with key illustrators and artists; including Philips, Ed Templeton and Mike Hill; this is an indispensable collection for any skate obsessive.

About the Authors:

SRK is a creative studio based in London and Jakarta. Founded in 2006 with a focus on documentary films, the SRK has since grown in size to include a troupe of creatives whose skills encompass filmmaking, sound design, animation, illustration, publishing and events. Clients include Polydor Records, ARTE TV, the BBC, Film4, MTV and SONAR.

The latest in our super-successful Stickerbomb line of books, Stickerbomb XL takes it to the next level, with large format and vinyl stickers.

Stickers are an essential part of the street art movement. Inexpensive and easy to produce, they act as a kind of informal business card for some graffiti writers, and a quick and effective promotional tool for many artists and illustrators. As more and more stickers are placed around major cities in the world, interest in the subject keeps growing.

Stickerbomb XL is filled with an amazing collection of more than 160 specially-commissioned stickers by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world, many of whom have not been featured in a publication before. It will appeal to a young market of designers, street artists and illustrators, plus street art fans and anyone who collects stickers.

About the author:

SRK is a creative studio based in London and Jakarta. Initiated by a director and producer partnership in 2006 with a focus on documentary films, SRK grew in size to house a troupe of creatives whose skills encompass filmmaking, sound design, animation, illustration, publishing, and events. The SRK has worked with Polydor Records, ARTE TV, the BBC, Channel 4, Film4, MTV, SONAR, Spaceshower TV and a number of international non-governmental organisations. Their books include RackGaki, Graffiti Asia, and the Stickerbomb series (all Laurence King).

What is behind the tidal wave of street art that is sweeping through the cultural scene today? What are its artistic features, its codes, and its language?

How has its production, which was originally exclusively centered in the urban space, invaded galleries, bringing with it real popularity for some artists?

These are some of the questions that this unique anthology attempts to answer. It retraces the history of the genre from its beginnings in the mid-1970s to the current issues that surround it today. This historical journey is dotted with portraits of the big international names from the field.

Written by an expert of this artistic movement, it dives deep into one of the major currents of contemporary art.

Graffiti has evolved into a rich and democratic form of visual expression that is now most often labelled ‘street art’. As it matures, street art has moved indoors; galleries now exhibit and sell limited-edition prints by established artists with recognizable self-created brands, including Banksy, Blek Le Rat, Shepard Fairey, Eine and Miss Tic.

This beautiful book is the first to look specifically at street art prints – now highly prized in their own right. It introduces the artists, symbols and subject matter that dominate the genre and places their prints in the wider context of urban art. The book jacket unfolds into a poster.

Stunning and vibrant artwork can be found on buildings, sidewalks, street signs, and other surfaces in cities from New York to London to Barcelona. Street Art presents a comprehensive overview of this movement that began in the late 1960s with anonymous spray-can art in New York and Philadelphia and that has since grown into a cross-cultural phenomenon over the last four decades.

Much of today’s most exuberant, most creative and most telling imagery is all around us, in the street. Cuba has a unique place in these international street galleries. Its colonial past and its Revolution, invoked everywhere in utopian images, have created something vibrantly distinct.

Beyond the ideology, this is the venue to enjoy the nostalgia of the chrome trim and high tail fins of 1950s automobiles, the locale for Cohiba cigars, pre-Revolution enamel Coke signs, the ever-popular Bacardi rum and all the excitement of the Buena Vista Social Club.

Barry Dawson’s brilliant photographic eye captures it all in an all-colour ideas book for students and practitioners of design, an evocative medley of impressions for visitors – and would-be visitors – to Cuba, and an inspirational journey for the visually curious.

200 illustrations

Graffiti and street art have been at the heart of many groundbreaking visual subcultures in the past few decades. However, a new wave of artists is moving in fresh directions. Frustrated by wholesale corporate theft of street creativity, these artists are employing different techniques in their work, different materials, different means of dissemination and different ways of getting their work noticed. Often using new materials - fly-tipped rubbish, street signs, children's toys, chalk, vinyl, perspex - they are subverting the three-dimensional streetscape to shock, educate and entertain. What makes their work so interesting is the dynamic way in which it blurs the division between fine art and street art to form something revolutionary. They are changing the way people experience city life. This book documents the new art, with photographs of the work and interviews with major players from around the world.