The art of writing your name

THE ART OF WRITING YOUR NAME highlights the history of the contemporary urban calligraphy movement regarding the last 25 years and thereby provides a great overview. It is an innovative new title, which covers the emergence of an exciting genre of graffiti and calligraphy – at the same time presenting a significant selection of works by more than 35 of the world’s hottest urban calligraphers. Over the years, graffiti writers started experimenting more and more with calligraphy on walls. Young artists created new scripts or letters, and galleries exhibited this new phenomenon. THE ART OF WRITING YOUR NAME brings together artists who merge calligraphy with the art of graffiti writing, street art and urban culture. Altogether more than three generations of calligraphy art are showcased. For many postmodern artists, there is a very fine line between calligraphy and graffiti, and that line occasionally disappears. As demonstrated by many of the works published here, the traditional border between graffiti as an autonomous project and calligraphy as ‘visualisation of the word’ is constantly fading. Moreover, a wide range of international artists are featured on 288 pages – from graffiti legends, such as Chaz Bojorquez with his Cholo style or Niels SHOE Meulman, the founder of the calligraffiti movement, to top shots of the current urban art scene like JonOne or L’Atlas. Also in the mix are other masters of their fields such as Usugrow, Cryptik, Faust, Saber or Vincent Abadie Hafez for instance. THE ART OF WRITING YOUR NAME presents styles and techniques from paper to brick, from graffiti to calligraphy, and from street to gallery and back. This book is a must-have for all graffiti fanatics, hand lettering fans, street art junkies, calligraphy lovers, calligraffiti addicts, type enthusiasts and style writing freaks. THE ART OF WRITING YOUR NAME, curated and authored by current German urban artists and graffiti writers Patrick Hartl and Christian Hundertmark (editor of the famous book series THE ART OF REBELLION), is a comprehensive and useful source on contemporary graffiti, urban calligraphy and calligraffiti. ISBN: 978-3-939566-50-2