This is the story of a thin layer of spray paint and some much thicker layers of irony. A spray-painting muralist named Trey (he didn’t want to give his last ...

Graffiti characters have a certain look so I was drawing them in a way that I thought they should look. But in 2004 my boy Mex needed a flyer for his B-boy jam and would send me reference pictures ...

A Los Angeles-based graffiti writer has paid a pair of visits to New Orleans over the past weeks, leaving stenciled typewriters and affirmative messages in his wake. In September, Gwen ...

Being a graffiti writer takes a lot of guts. And an incredible amount of passion. For many street artists from the 1970s and ‘80s, it’s the kind of passion that’s hard to abandon, ...

How A Legendary Graffiti Writer Turned Her Tag Into A Streetwear Icon. Eli Morgan Gesner Founding Editor, Uproxx Style Twitter. December 15, 2017.

Graffiti writing is only based on lettering, when people write their names, like "John was here." But then there's graffiti art , which is done legally, with permission.

Victor Ash is old school. He came up on the mean streets of Paris as a graffiti writer in the early 1980s. Ash tagged any wall, alley, building, or street he could find. He refined his skills with ...

Amid the funk, lust, and quiet carnal desperation of the Block in the early ’80s, venerable Polish-sausage takeout joint Polock Johnny’s was a young man’s video game oasis. Kids w… ...

Other graffiti artists started in New York City soon afterward, and by the ’80s, the art form had arrived in Indianapolis. In NYC, they wrote on subway cars. In Indy, writers hit freight trains.