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Graffiti - Graffiti Tagging Fonts
It doesn't matter where you live in the world, chances are
you've seen graffiti somewhere around your local community.
It seems to spring up in every culture, although it tends to
be more prevalent in big cities.
But is it vandalism? Or is it art? That's a difficult
question to answer, mainly because there are so many
different types and styles of graffiti. The most basic form
of graffiti is "tagging" - which is usually a simple
graphic, usually letters, perhaps a play on the creator's
initials or nicknames. Often small and monochrome, it's
probably one of the most annoying and frustrating types of
graffiti, because it is small enough to deface almost any
surface, and is almost universally condemned as having no
artistic merit.
Graffiti, however, isn't restricted to tagging. On larger
surfaces, many graffiti artists employ multiple colors and
intricate designs to create their pictures. This is the type
of graffiti that starts to cross the line into being
artistic. It's this type of graffiti art that is now being
showcased in a number of art galleries, both in the USA and
around the world.
The other problem with graffiti as art is that the issue is
clouded by the location of the art. If some of these
stunning designs were created on a canvas, or a wall
specially set aside for the purpose, then it would be easier
to recognize them as art. Unfortunately most graffiti is
placed on private property, without the owner's consent, and
so is less likely to be viewed as a welcome addition.
Around the world, communities and governments have become
more vigilant in their attempts to reduce the amount of
graffiti. In many places there are community groups or
government funded teams who guarantee to clean up graffiti
in 24 hours after it's reported. Trains in New York were
given new coatings that allowed paint to just be "dissolved"
off their surfaces.
In my own local area, the sale of spray paint to persons
under 18 is illegal, and all spray paints are kept in locked
display cupboards. Another area has a team of painters who
regularly go around and repaint any fences that have been
covered in graffiti. One homeowner I know has had his fence
repainted 7 times so far! Over time, however, the amount of
graffiti reappearing is reducing, which is a victory for the
opponents of graffiti.
Still, simply removing the problem may in fact be a loss to
the artistic community in general. If graffiti is considered
in its most highly refined form, then are we in fact
stopping artistic development in its tracks by making it
impossible for budding graffiti artists to practice their
craft?
When you illegally deface someone else's property, no matter
how beautiful the art you create, you have still committed a
crime. Maybe what we need to do is find ways that graffiti
artists can learn and practice their craft, without needing
to deface hundreds of properties in the process. Some
communities now provide blank spaces and invite local
graffiti artists to paint them. Others have graffiti walls,
where anyone can paint whatever they want.
Maybe there needs to be a shift in the thinking of graffiti
artists, so they can discover the value of painting on
paper, rather than walls. Would the great painters of the
past still be as famous today if they had painted on walls,
rather than on canvas? The problem is complex, so finding a
solution that makes everyone happy is unlikely to be simple.
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Some Other Useful Web Resources
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1. Spacing Wire » Graffiti
... these people criminals. Tagging is completely selfish. It ... to it. I can understand graffiti murals in appropriate places ... house, with dumbass illegible fonts undermines the good graffiti ...
http://www.spacing.ca/wire/?cat=17 |
2. EuroCool - Commercial
... Built-in system fonts replacement to add Portuguese letters. * Modified Graffiti layout to write ... ... English languages only ~ New: Support for color tagging of output; requires downloading of updated ...
http://www.eurocool.com/type/?type=Commercial |
3. ArcadePod.Com: Free Online Games
... texts any way you like. Happy tagging! Submitted on 09/26/03 write ... about this game Reviews for "Graffiti Creator" (16869) 1 (Guest ... it hopefully you will pot new fonts 3 (Guest : KARLOS) Friday Jul ...
http://www.arcadepod.com/ ...e/details.php?id=4046 |
4. art | mister-wong.de | Social Bookmarking Tool
... type 3.0 typography art fonts illustration entertainment ... community + bilder + grafik + graffiti + gem§lde + visual + berlin ... software suchen suchmaschinen tagging tools tutorial tv video web ...
http://www.mister-wong.de/tags/art/ |
5. Wists, top web picks from eileen2000 for all. Wists, social shopping scrapbo...
... folk | folklore | font | fonts | food | form | forum | foto ... goddess | golan | goth | graffiti | graphics | Gras | green ... system | t-shirt | table | tagging | tale | tales | tannin ...
http://www.wists.com/eileen2000 |
6. Blogmarks.net : Public marks with tag art
... audio/video, documents/files; Tagging and the entire world, or a ... fashion film flash flickr fonts forum free fun funny galerie ... game games generator google graffiti graphic graphics graphisme ...
http://blogmarks.net/marks/tag/art |
7. Usability In The News: 12/2005Usability In The News
... Berea Street) Anatomy of web fonts. Full Article 3:15 PM ... Via Off the Top) Learning Graffiti. Full Article 12:29 PM ... implementation of distributed tagging (i.e. TÄôrati doesnÄôt own ...
http://www.usernomics.com ...05_12_01_archive.html |
8. scot hacker’s foobar blog » Tech
... para vida Technorati Tags: fonts, photography, microsoft Filed ... LED tossing, live-circuit graffiti, BBQ grill pool heater ... you all that rich, chocolatey tagging goodness, but without the ...
http://www.birdhouse.org/blog/archives/tech/ |
9. ShadowPlan; the Shadow knows!
... and Quick Filtering) Fast tagging Fast filtering Alarms Setting ... panel View Customization - Fonts View Customization - High ... icon at the lower left of the graffiti area. File Selection Screen ...
http://www.codejedi.com/s ...al/ReferenceGuide.htm |
10. Hand Coding » palm
... writing within its own little Graffiti-only area. (Link from ... firefox foley folksonomy fonts food football freeware ... starwars steak storage sxsw tagging target tea tennis throttling ...
http://www.handcoding.com/archives/category/palm/ |
11. fonts :: Page 1/21 > FontReactor
... Freefontsx Fonts Pack 344 Usuario(s) Online Try fonts before installing: 21 Pages Found 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ... ... PC ] [ Download MAC ] 16.09.2002 ª Tagging Zher ( Graffiti ) Author Zher Graffiti Productions ...
http://www.fontreactor.co ...ntes/en/T/letras.html |
12. Free Graffiti Fonts
Gouzou >> Graffiti >> Free Graffiti Fonts News - Forum Favorite searches 1979 songs by ... ... Ä°ê¬ëÄöëí wild poker Free online graffiti tagging games The best graffiti websites The ...
http://www.gouzou.com/en/ ...reeGraffitiFonts.html |
13. ionoi » categorized
ionoi Archive for categorized tagging deluxe: zoomirphic calligraphy ... Permalink Comments graffiti in austria: grime June 9 ... offers a keyword search for fonts: http://www.linotype.com ...
http://ionoi.blogs.sonance.net/tag/graphische/ |
14. creativity - SWiK
... reference resources Software tagging technology tools Web Web2.0 ... digital electronics geek graffiti inspiration lighting nyc ... css development dhtml directory fonts gallery graphic howto html ...
http://swik.net/creativity |
15. Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communic...
... Methodology in Production First Software Fonts ª (a 75K PDF file or a 35K text file). A PDF ... ... form of the 20th century. Graffiti is not to be confused with ´ tagging, ª which is not artistic in ...
http://ourworld.compuserv ...epages/profirst/g.htm |
16. http://www.thing.net/~grist/lnd/graffiti/tags.htm
... use than current screen fonts based on foundry type ... expansive "painting" wing of graffiti art. This allows crews to ... On the simplest level, tagging is a way of marking turf, of ...
http://www.thing.net/~grist/lnd/graffiti/tags.htm |
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