Chapter 9
Street
Breaking the Rules with Urban Style and Cool Tools
Graffiti is one of those buzz words that make people uncomfortable. Graffiti (from the Italian word graffito, meaning “scratched”) was found in the ruins of Pompeii and was probably around even before it was discovered there. One of the preserved inscriptions from Pompeii reads: “I am amazed, O wall, that you have not collapsed and fallen, since you must bear the tedious stupidities of so many scrawlers.” The cave drawings at Lascaux in France are a form of graffiti, if you think about it, just a type of communication. What is today’s graffiti artist, tagger, or calligrapher trying to say? Is it indeed only vandalism?
The term used in street circles for creating graffiti is “getting ...
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