April 2009 Archives

Tagging as an Artform


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subway_cover_blog.jpgHere is another review of a book from Chronicle Books that has to do with the "art" of tagging - or graffiti. For all of us who live in an urban area, or have ever visited one, we see this art all over the place. Sometimes crude, many times beautiful, this art on public walls and edifices is a way of life. Now there's a book that chronicles this on the subways of New York City.
sketch_blog.jpgHere is an enstallment on some other books that were recently sent to me by Chronicle Books. I've been getting a lot of design and some architecture books that have been really interesting. It's just good that there are such great resources available to all of us.

The books this time range from designer sketchbooks to small, micro buildings.

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AIGA_blog.jpgWell, Chronicle Books has done it again. They recently sent me a slew of design books - and all of them, well, almost all of them, are pretty interesting. I thought I'd choose 3 of them for now and write about the other ones in a future post or two.

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