Fadings – Graffiti to Design, Illustration and More -USED

Graffiti, with its individual aesthetics and bohemian values has poured in many parts of visual communication for a long time. An exclusive selection of designers and illustrators, who derive their professional way from their graffiti past, documents this evolution.

FADINGS shows their latest works with the involvement of briefing and concept. Thereby it is enabled to relate the approach of design to the final product.

At the same time – by examining the existence of graffiti – analogies and mutual influences are presented, which vitally have characterized the handwriting of the graffiti designer and graffiti illustrator.- FADINGS

CMPONE, ZEDZ, 123KLAN, ATALIER, TYPEHOLICS, VIAGRAFIK, HELLO, BACKYARD 10, MISTER E, ESHER, NECK, BESOK, SUPERBLAST, FLYING FORTRESS, SAT ONE, STUKA, EROSIE, FINSTA, 56K, GOMES, DIBO, HITNES, SHAWN-THE SIGNER.

Graffiti, with its unique aesthetics and unconventional values, has had an increasing influence on several areas of visual communication for a very long time. Fadings presents the work of 24 graffiti artists whose commercial success has been based on their graffiti experience, including 123Klan, Flying Fortress, Viagrafik, Hixsept, and Atalier. To give the reader an understanding of each artist’s creative process, the book presents a selection of projects from briefing stage through development of the creative concept to final execution. Fadings is split into three sections: the first, From the Scene, presents a detailed profile of each artist (five to eight pages each); the second, Into the Scene, presents interviews with art directors and companies who use graffiti as a commercial visual language; the third, Clash, features work by innovative, upcoming artists from the scene.