Don't be scared it's only Street Art

Due to the recent acquisition of the Street Logo's book by Tristian Manco (thanks to Ms M and Mr Andy) my head's been deep in the world of street art. Manco (who also brought us Stencil Graffiti) has put together a brilliant and informed collection of the eclectic styles of street art and mentions everything from Stickers to Freeforms.
Artists particularly worth a mention are the literally cutting edge Swoon who cuts out intricate paper characters and pastes them up on New York's surfaces and one of my all time favourites, UK's Adam Neate who in a true protest against Art as a commodity, leaves his one off canvases around the streets for passers-by to either ignore or pick up. I'm still waiting to come across one of his works, in the meantime, I'll have to settle for his very cool website www.adamneate.co.uk Street Logo's is an interesting insight into both the evolution of Street Art and it's possible future. It's out now in shops and definitely worth investing in.





Shouts to my friend Night Ryder who passed on a link to a superb graffiti site called Wooster Collective which appears to act as a newsroom for International graffiti -tirelessly adding information about new works and actions to it's vast archives. The particular link that was passed was a post about one of Banksy's latest political protests in Brighton. The photo above right is a Banksy piece I found in 2001 whilst wandering around Soho.