davidikus

/Oops! I forgot to upload a picture for today... It will come up later (tonight?). Meanwhile, here is the design of the business card, finally finalised. I knew you could not wait! (Well, I know you could wait but *I, on the other hand* couldn't. Notice the use of the fantastic Parisine Office Std from Porchez Typofonderie (Jean-François Porchez designed, among others a series of fonts for Le Monde and Parisine, a font used by the RATP in the Paris metro). The images/dingbats come from Allumi PTF and you too can download them for free from Jean-François's website. /

[En avant-première, la carte de visite que j'ai dessinée avec le magnifique Parisine Office, dessiné par Jean-François Porchez de Porchez Typofonderie, mélangé à des images / dingbats (gratuits !) provenant de l'Allumi PTF.]

[Et voici les images choisies (en tout petit, je sais, hélas!)]
/The images on the card./

/London does not really have a graffiti culture: the powers-that-be make sure of that. For a variety of reasons, Paris has developed an original graffiti culture. Arguably, Blek Le Rat created stencil graffiti at the beginning of the 1990s to create an idiosyncratic form of the graffiti culture he experienced first hand in America. Of course, Blek, and his followers, have had a tremendous influence on Banksy. Over the years, Parisian graffiti/stencil artists have learnt that tagging on a poster and putting this on the wall was highly unlikely to get them into trouble. Different forms of graffitis-on-posters can now be found in Paris, including a mix of collage and paintings. I was struck by this one when I last went to Paris - it seems to be the work of a FrancK DuvaL. See http://www.fkdl.com/ & http://www.fkdl.com/blog/...

Let me know where I can read more about Parisian graffitis-stencils-collage./