Graffiti School

Name: Graffiti School
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9780500290972
Price: 36.99 NZD
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A Student Guide with Teacher's Manual

By Chris Ganter

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Summary

Graffiti School by Chris Ganter is a comprehensive guide for anyone eager to learn the art of graffiti. The book offers detailed instruction on designing your own letter styles, creating unique tags with effects, mastering throw-ups, fills, and motifs. It covers various styles such as wildstyle, bubblestyle and blockbusters, and teaches how to build large burners and handle spray cans. It also emphasises how to get your work up safely and legally.

For teachers, this book provides lesson plans blending theory and practice, practical advice for conducting safe graffiti lessons, marking guidance, and resources on graffiti's origins and cultural history, all tailored for students of varying abilities.
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This book is perfect for budding graffiti artists, creative teenagers, and educators wishing to teach graffiti art in a structured, safe, and informed manner.

Suitable for college use, this title opens with an exploration of graffiti's background and history, from Pompeii to the Hip Hop revolution to the present day, as well as how to stay on the right side of the law. It explains the practical techniques of using a spray can, and the step-by-step methods and skills required to create artistic graffiti.

The world's first practical coursebook on the art of graffiti

Description

If you want to learn how to write graffiti, this is the book you need.

Find out how to:

Design your own letter style
Use effects to create a unique tag
Create throw-ups
Include fills and motifs
Paint wildstyle, bubblestyle, and blockbusters
Build up large burners
Handle a spray can
Get your work up safely and legally

Teachers, Graffiti School is the book you need if you want to teach graffiti.

It contains:

Plans for lessons on graffiti - theory and practice
Practical advice for staging safe, hands-on graffiti lessons
Guidance on marking students' work
Resources covering the origins and cultural history of graffiti
Clear step-by-step explanations to suit students of all abilities
Exercises and solutions

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Artists & Illustrators praise Graffiti School for its surprisingly comprehensive step-by-step demonstrations, recommending it as an ideal gift for creative teenagers.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500290972

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 September 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: with over 300 illustrations, 101 in colour

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 870g

Pages: 176

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About the Author

Chris Ganter is a former winner and judge of the Montana Style Combat competitions (Stuttgart and Munich). He also won the Stuttgart graffiti contest for public walls and Write4Gold (south Germany). His work has been exhibited in Germany and Australia, and he has contributed to many publications, including Street Fonts and Graffiti School.