Next: Graffiti’s All-City Kings It elaborated from a signature, to a basic piece, to lettering ... very large, square words, but very legible. We painted over 5,000 trains each, over the ...

a kinetic-looking 1980 piece by the graffiti writer Blade has been recreated, with the five letters of his name changed to read Plato. On a coffee shop wall in Bushwick, a name piece from the same ...

In other words, copyright protects both highly meritorious ... it doesn’t seem so heretic to give stylish and original graffiti lettering the same treatment.

In New York, bands of urchin-artisans took up Cornbread’s style—stick letters, tags—and made it an art form. Graffiti now adorns the walls of museums from Brooklyn to Berlin, and sells for ...

There were large “throw-ups”—words painted in bubble letters: SYLSNM ... man who looks like Bruce Willis in his prime, runs Graffiti Removal Services, a 25-employee company that’s been ...