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Label 228: A Street Art Project Book

Featuring:

Artists include:

Mecro,Soule, Downtimer, Mat Curran, Daniel Flores, Zoso, Aaron Kraten, Lightsleepers "Lofa," Sket one, Rupture, David Flores, Matt Linares, Kegr, Josh Taylor, Robots Will Kill!, Nano, Wreck One, Dolla, and many more.

About the book:

Art is anywhere, anytime; it just depends on your viewpoint. Subway cars in the 1970s and 1980s became mobile murals in New York City. Not every artist can afford a canvas to create on; some people’s imagination exceeds their financial or physical means. Sometimes the canvas is bigger than ourselves. Look at Banksy or Michelangelo. Sometimes the canvas is really small.

And free. Complimentary of the U.S. Post Service.Label 228 is a gathering of street art executed on priority mail labels (Label 228, in the U.S.P.S. parlance) and displayed in public spaces. It’s a remarkably popular method of exposure featured by graffiti artists worldwide. These labels are free, portable, and quick and easy to exhibit, offering artists the chance to spend more time creating their work than if they were to paint and write directly on walls, vehicles, and public objects.

camden noir launched his Label 228 project by putting out a call to artists, asking them to send him their artwork or anything, for that matter, on priority mail labels. Within six months, he received over 500 labels from artists all over the world. At this point, he has over 1,500 labels from over 600 artists. This is a collection of the best of those labels, in a beautiful, full-color book.

About the author:

Upon graduating from high school in 2002, camden noir joined the U.S. Army and served on two overseas tours, spending time in both Afghanistan and Iraq. After ending his service with the military in 2006, he moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, where he now is a full-time student and freelance interior designer.

Available at:

Soft Skull Press

Amazon

and your local bookstores!

Read a great inteview by Peel Magazine and Camden here.

Northwest Palate Magazine is featuring an Urban Soule Designed Cup!
In the July/Aug 2009 issue
"A Soulful Summer Sundae"

Fall 2009

Watch the new TV series "Glee" on Fox

Episode 10 "Hairography" will have my "DJ SAKE1" stencil in the set dressing!

Series Premiere

September 16th Wed 9/8c

Be on the look out for Handmade Graphics, coming late Summer/Fall 2009

I have a "How To" tutorial on Stenciling with photos!

Handmade Graphics

by Anna Wray

published by Rotovision

Get back to basics with Handmade Graphics, which will reinvigorate every graphic designer’s image- making process. Reawaken your dormant “art student,” step away from that computer, get your hands dirty, and start to play!

From pencils to computers, from scissors to paper, from stencils to printers, a vast array of mark-making tools are investigated and manipulated, illustrated with examples and exercises that stretch the limits of conventional usability, reinvent traditional, hand-making methods, and break all the rules along the way. As well as the usual mark-making devices, a range of left-field methods and processes are also explored, employing household materials and found objects, and subverting the correct usage of digital and electronic devices.

So, if you’re a graphic designer looking for inspiration beyond the usual off-the-peg solutions, this ideas-packed handbook offers a comprehensive “toolbox” of low-tech materials, high-tech equipment, old school tools, and subtly subverted methods and processes. After a good dose of hands-on mark-making, take those experiments back to your computer to create eye-catching and unique graphic solutions.

And of course the Great Stencil Nation Book!

Stencil Nation Book

168 full-color pages

More than 350 photographs

With an Introduction by Chris Carlsson

Featured Artists

John Fekner ,Jef Aerosol, Scott Williams, Adam5100, Amy Rice, Arofish, Banksy, SOULE, Chris Stain, Hao, Janet Attard, Klutch, Logan Hicks, m-city, Peat Wollaeger, PIXNIT, Street Art Workers, Swoon, Tiago Denczuk