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Graffiti the art of getting up. Graffiti is a phenomenon that has been around since man started painting on cave walls but today many and the authorities would call it criminal, now this is not a discussion for us here so we’ll just focus on the positive aspects of graffiti and the side line of graffiti design and clothing or has the canvas has been called t-shirts. My first experience of graffiti was during the punk era and the concept of getting your name or crew known and that you may have been in to areas that where outside your territory. in graffiti terms this is know as “getting up” or “getting your name up and out there”. Now the Midlands UK is not quite New York and the gang situation was nothing like there so the tagging was really just a sign we had been there and nothing more than vandalism. Today if there’s one form of graffiti that I’m not into it’s tagging, probably because it’s the most abused, as any fool can scrawl tag on a wall so it’s not what I would a call art. As we have mentioned New York, it was here at similar that the UK punk thing and a US music / lifestyle movement started. It’s big today and it’s embraced graffiti and made it it’s own the movement that was and still is, of course, hip hop. Having said all that, through time, “getting up” and “kinging it”, there are some tags that have been there for years. “Seen” for one, there is a definite art in some of these hand styles, add to that to the fact that many graffiti writers do tag or sign their walls, such as Nylon and UARM. Anyway time to stop rambling and move on to some of the graffiti clothing on The Urban Shop. | ||||
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Obey Obey is a graffiti artist who specialises in stencil and stickers. Obey has become something of a phenomenon in that “Andre has a posse” and that posse is headed by Obey aka Shepard Fairey who started stencilling images of the pro wrestler Andre The Giant on walls world wide. Obey captured the imagination of the generation and via the internet distributed stencils and downloadable Obey stickers to make Obey known world wide. Obey moved from stencil and stickers to posters and it was a small step to t-shirts and now a full blown men’s clothing range under the banner of Obey. Whilst today Obey still produces posters, many limited edition, and signed selling to speculators, the majority of his time is tied up doing commission for various companies. Obey designed the cover for Elephunk the Black Eyed Peas album and in 2006 the release of the Marc Echo computer game features graffiti artwork by Obey. | ||||
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URBAN ARTS RESEARCH AND MARKETING Urban Arts Research and Marketing, UARM for short started life in 2002 and is exactly what it says a full design agency. UARM has worked on many major projects including with the Jean-Michel Basquiat Estate, Ryan McGinness, Mark Gonzales, and Todd James. Artists under the UARM banner include Neck Face, Reas, Video Epic and Bast. | ||||
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| RAZK and METHODS NYC Razk from Amsterdam and MethodsNYC from USA are two collectives that bring together designs from various graffiti artists and distribute t-shirt with graffiti designs printed on them. The T-shirt designs of Razk are straight out of the Blackbook (the books that graffiti artists use to develop ideas) whilst the t-shirt designs of Methods NYC have been ripped off the Halls of Fame in an around NYC. | ||||
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| SABRE and FLYING FORTRESS
Both Saber and Flying Fortress are graffiti artists from Germany where the Hip Hop scene is very strong. The graffiti of Sabre comes from the hardcore punk scene and uses designers from all over the world to produce designs that they print on t-shirts. Flying Fortress although from Germany is very different, icon’s are where they are at. Early on in their development they established that they wanted to be different and not just write their name. They wanted an icon that could immediately be recognised as Flying Fortress that icon was, and still is, The Teddy Troops. Flying Fortress may produce t-shirts but they spend a lot of time working on toy design and The Teddy Troops have invaded every corner of the globe in PVC form, on t-shirts, stickers and also walls. | ||||
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NYLON Nylon is from the old school of graffiti and whilst he’s out bombing in and around Brighton he still finds time to produce design for a number of clothing companies as well as his own aptly name Nylon. Nylon started his graffiti adventure producing stencils and much of his old work was stencil based and as he gained a high reputation, his work was published in a number of graffiti books and publications. Much of Nylon’s time is now divided between traditional graffiti and design work. MONO Mono a Midlands based hip hop company that just loves what it does. The major artist there goes under a number of names, Mr Breakfast or Lord Leigh. They produce graffiti based designs but the most exciting bit is they use stencils to produce unique designs on t-shirts. We have persuaded them from time to time to do 5 or 6 t-shirts the same so we can get them on site and sell them. ABUZE Abuze is an interesting one, they have taken ideas from graffiti and moved them on a little but you can still see that the t-shirts, hoods and caps they produce are most definitely graffiti based. So what are they doing that’s interesting? All over prints and custom made hoods and crew to start, add to that the fact hat they take London underground maps and travelcards, cut them up, laminate them and them sew them on to t-shirts makes a unique and the t-shirts look amazing, unfortunately all sold now. DEPHECT Dephect was never born as a graffiti clothing brand, the name Dephect was originally used as a tag by a graffiti artist in New York back in the 80's. That said many of the Dephect t-shirt designs are very hip hop based with a strong graffiti or stencil feel to them. | ||||
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