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This is perhaps seen nowhere better than in graffiti – writers who, for more than four decades, have influenced traditional type design, advertising and art through the creation of new letter forms in ...

L.A. graffiti writing has been around as long as the roads we drive on today. We spoke to experts in L.A. graffiti writing to understand its significance as not just a form of protest, but also a way ...

Ismael Illescas grew up admiring the graffiti around his neighborhood in Los Angeles. He had migrated to the city with his mother and brother from Ecuador in the 1990s as part of a large Latin ...

GRAFFITI expert Tom Standage believes that historians used to be “sniffy” about street art – until they realised it offered a ...