A master of type, his direct approach of typography questions our ways of life with the aim of producing a positive impact. “I have been working with type as a profession for a few years, but I discovered calligraphy when I was in middle school,” he recalled in an interview with We Heart. “Since then, I was always doodling on my notes — and graffiti has continued to be an influence.”

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As for his inspiration, he describes it as “a weird mix.” “Somehow I manage to merge my interests and draw inspiration from them,” he adds. “I started to do calligraphy on my own earlier on in life. I was lucky in Mexico that this was taught to us, starting in elementary school. I never thought it was a profession, so I just did it because I enjoyed it. I was also exposed to lettering through my grandfather — after seeing photos of his work in the 1940s and ’50s.”

Having studied graphic design in school, sharpened his technical skills and gave him the opportunity to go to school for typeface design and attend workshops. “Some of the tools I use to create come back to graffiti and how it has influenced me over the years,” he says. “I also like to experiment with the combination of digital and analog; handmade and contemporary.”

Take a look at some of his original artwork:

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Jalea’s style is marked by a puzzle-like use of simple geometric shapes, clean lines scaled up to fit any space, and the use of primary colors evocative of the simplicity of childhood. Reworking simple and bright graphic elements into complex patterns and meditative murals, his art is meant to evoke a feeling of uplifting wonder.

Ultimately, Jalea writes on his website, his purpose is to encourage social change in the form of consciousness-shifting works of art – to create works that communicate the necessity of evolving and rising above our differences by understanding the interconnectedness of all living things.

Born in Peru and currently based in Toronto, where he shares a home with his wife and kids, Jalea admits to being an avid traveler. It was actually during his travels that he formulated his approach to both his life and his art. “We are all interconnected and even though we’ve created borders and hierarchies in the world we are still one people, a race of explorers in the constant pursuit of perfection,” he stated in an interview with Talenthouse. “We have to learn to better help each other.”

With more than 20 years of painting murals and clients that include Facebook, Nike, Cirque du Soleil, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, his words are well worth taking note of.

The post Muralist Teaches the Importance of Kindness appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Over the past years, Lampas took part in group exhibitions and art projects held in Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Korea, and the UAE. In 2015, he performed the first world’s largest calligraffiti on the roof of a building in Moscow – an artwork that can be seen from a satellite and on Google Earth.

“For me, Calligraffiti is a great way to create art non-stop,” he shared with the Fendi blog. “Now I can easily take a big bucket of paint and perform my art everywhere. On walls, on glass, on cars!”

“The Calligrafuturism is my self-developed style,” he went on to explain. “We’re all living in a multi-cultural world and if I can help people to learn more about foreign calligraphy, they’ll learn more about other countries. So that’s why Calligrafuturism is so important for me, I don’t want to make something new just because I’m crazy, I want to create it because I can see a very big knowledge and that’s why I’m doing it.”

He admits that he’s always hunting for the next best surface to work on. “Of course, I prefer something smooth, but it depends on the material and the tools,” he says. “So, if I could find something very nice to work on outside this earth, it would probably be the moon. That would be my favorite surface!”

Take a look at some of his out-of-this-world murals:

The post Pokras Lampas Mixes Together Calligraphy and Graffiti appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Based out of San José, California, his work has long outgrown its humble beginnings and is now shown in public art spaces, museums, companies, and galleries, as well as published in editorial publications.

“I feel lucky to have studied as an artist in the streets and later in a college,” he shared in an interview with Acclaim Magazine. “In doing so, I always felt like I had to keep my artistry of the streets and love of letters separate from what I was learning in school. I used to separate what I could create, so, for example, I would tell myself ‘this is for graffiti’, and ‘that is for the galleries’, today I don’t. Now I am combining my love of everything together, which you will begin to see unfold in the years to come.”

His work tends to center around two types of portraiture which he refers to as, “Topographical Portraiture” and “Type Faces.” While the Topographical Portraits are made by stylizing a portrait with topographical lines and shapes, in a similar manner to those found through images on geographic maps; his Type Faces incorporate typography and portraiture.

“I want to expand further on the concept of these type-based portraits,” he says. We sure hope his dream comes true!

The post From the Street to the Museum: These Portraits Are Based on Graffiti appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Aryz is an artist from Spain who’s been interested in graffiti from childhood. He would always admire the street art he saw on his way to school. He first started by drawing on abandoned buildings, but today companies hire him to decorate facades of buildings around the world. You can see his work in many places, from Poland to Japan.

Aryz also works as an artist and illustrator. When he’s not painting on a building, he’s in his studio. His small-scale works have been exhibited in France before and are currently on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy from November 14th, 2019 to February 16th, 2020.

Scroll down to see his work.

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Zabou is a French artist currently living in London. So far, she has painted 181 murals in 17 countries, using 2097 spray cans! Her mission is to travel and paint giant portraits that will make the world a nicer place to be.  

Most often, she spray-paints large-scale portraits. The portraits are emphasized by always being in black and white technique, while the background is colorful and playful. She explores various themes through her artworks and draws her inspiration from history and the surroundings where she paints. Most common motifs in her work are humans, art, icons, music, nature, love, and empowerment.  

She emphasizes the importance of public art according to her, street art and graffiti enable people living in different communities, but on the same geographic location to connect. It changes cities in a way of giving them life and creating social dialogue, inspiration or revolt.  

The post French Street Artist Paints Amazingly Realistic Murals appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Now he creates visual work including typography, lettering, and illustrations for clients around the world such as MTV, CNN, and HBO; while his Instagram page is equally trendy, with more than 132k followers.

“The hardest part of my job is finding a good quote or a word,” he admits. “I could spend hours looking for a good one. Since I have the phrase or word I start to make the sketches in different styles, after having chosen the best one I proceed to do it with a marker, brush or directly digital on a tablet. Finally, I place the lettering on a photo or image.”

“​I think the strokes are very important element in order to create a nice lettering piece, also the thickness and kerning are very important,” he says. “Sometimes I have the same mistakes, I usually see different works of great artists to have a better idea of how to do it and that’s how I improve my work!”

Strongly influenced by his background in graffiti, his calligraphy art is bold, vibrant, and full of movement. Take a look at some of our favorite works by him and follow his Instagram page for more.

The post Lettering Artist is Inspired by Graffiti appeared first on PlayJunkie.

He is known for his exquisite body of art that fuses dark humor with graffiti executed as a combination of stencils and spray-paint that leaves no one indifferent. His street art dominates the urban space in various countries across the globe and it carries strong and controversial messages with a political, philosophical, social, or environmental background.

Banksy remains the world’s most-renewed graffiti artist who inspires people with his mysterious character. Many street artists are motivated by his art narrative that always sparks the curiosity and provokes the viewers to explore his work.

This approach that he uses is known under the widely popular term the “Banksy Effect.” It’s a term that was popularized after Banksy first appeared on the street art scene in the 1990s it’s associated with his signature stenciled works of street art that always convey a message.

The post Banksy: The Mysterious Street Artist That Dominates Urban Space appeared first on PlayJunkie.

With the LED lights shining his murals consist of 2 colors: red filter to see the red layer, a blue filter to observe the blue, and with these two layers together you will be able to see the true beauty of his art.

After his involvement in a World Record where he created the largest glow in the dark painting in Ras Al Khaimah in the United Emirates, his mission became to travel around the world and share his paintings on every wall he sees.

Scroll down and see his insanely good pieces of work.

The post 3D Realistic Mind-Blowing Graffiti By Greek Artist Stathis Tsavalis appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“Since then I have pushed and experimented with this idea of overlapping words, seeing how many I can fit into the space of one word, and then slowly boiling it down and simplifying this idea to become more legible,” – he recently told Colossal. “This in turn lead more to the use of ‘typography’ throughout my style as you see today. I have always been interested in the idea of graffiti speaking to the general public, rather than just other graffiti writers, and readable letters or a more ‘typographic’ approach has been a good route to that.”

You can check out some of his works below.

The post British Graffiti Artist Creates Impressive Multi-Layered 3D Typographies appeared first on PlayJunkie.

A master of type, his direct approach of typography questions our ways of life with the aim of producing a positive impact. “I have been working with type as a profession for a few years, but I discovered calligraphy when I was in middle school,” he recalled in an interview with We Heart. “Since then, I was always doodling on my notes — and graffiti has continued to be an influence.”

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by IT’S A LIVING (@itsaliving)

As for his inspiration, he describes it as “a weird mix.” “Somehow I manage to merge my interests and draw inspiration from them,” he adds. “I started to do calligraphy on my own earlier on in life. I was lucky in Mexico that this was taught to us, starting in elementary school. I never thought it was a profession, so I just did it because I enjoyed it. I was also exposed to lettering through my grandfather — after seeing photos of his work in the 1940s and ’50s.”

Having studied graphic design in school, sharpened his technical skills and gave him the opportunity to go to school for typeface design and attend workshops. “Some of the tools I use to create come back to graffiti and how it has influenced me over the years,” he says. “I also like to experiment with the combination of digital and analog; handmade and contemporary.”

Take a look at some of his original artwork:

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The post This Typography Artist Is Wholly Inspired By Graffiti appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Jalea’s style is marked by a puzzle-like use of simple geometric shapes, clean lines scaled up to fit any space, and the use of primary colors evocative of the simplicity of childhood. Reworking simple and bright graphic elements into complex patterns and meditative murals, his art is meant to evoke a feeling of uplifting wonder.

Ultimately, Jalea writes on his website, his purpose is to encourage social change in the form of consciousness-shifting works of art – to create works that communicate the necessity of evolving and rising above our differences by understanding the interconnectedness of all living things.

Born in Peru and currently based in Toronto, where he shares a home with his wife and kids, Jalea admits to being an avid traveler. It was actually during his travels that he formulated his approach to both his life and his art. “We are all interconnected and even though we’ve created borders and hierarchies in the world we are still one people, a race of explorers in the constant pursuit of perfection,” he stated in an interview with Talenthouse. “We have to learn to better help each other.”

With more than 20 years of painting murals and clients that include Facebook, Nike, Cirque du Soleil, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, his words are well worth taking note of.

The post Muralist Teaches the Importance of Kindness appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Over the past years, Lampas took part in group exhibitions and art projects held in Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Korea, and the UAE. In 2015, he performed the first world’s largest calligraffiti on the roof of a building in Moscow – an artwork that can be seen from a satellite and on Google Earth.

“For me, Calligraffiti is a great way to create art non-stop,” he shared with the Fendi blog. “Now I can easily take a big bucket of paint and perform my art everywhere. On walls, on glass, on cars!”

“The Calligrafuturism is my self-developed style,” he went on to explain. “We’re all living in a multi-cultural world and if I can help people to learn more about foreign calligraphy, they’ll learn more about other countries. So that’s why Calligrafuturism is so important for me, I don’t want to make something new just because I’m crazy, I want to create it because I can see a very big knowledge and that’s why I’m doing it.”

He admits that he’s always hunting for the next best surface to work on. “Of course, I prefer something smooth, but it depends on the material and the tools,” he says. “So, if I could find something very nice to work on outside this earth, it would probably be the moon. That would be my favorite surface!”

Take a look at some of his out-of-this-world murals:

The post Pokras Lampas Mixes Together Calligraphy and Graffiti appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Based out of San José, California, his work has long outgrown its humble beginnings and is now shown in public art spaces, museums, companies, and galleries, as well as published in editorial publications.

“I feel lucky to have studied as an artist in the streets and later in a college,” he shared in an interview with Acclaim Magazine. “In doing so, I always felt like I had to keep my artistry of the streets and love of letters separate from what I was learning in school. I used to separate what I could create, so, for example, I would tell myself ‘this is for graffiti’, and ‘that is for the galleries’, today I don’t. Now I am combining my love of everything together, which you will begin to see unfold in the years to come.”

His work tends to center around two types of portraiture which he refers to as, “Topographical Portraiture” and “Type Faces.” While the Topographical Portraits are made by stylizing a portrait with topographical lines and shapes, in a similar manner to those found through images on geographic maps; his Type Faces incorporate typography and portraiture.

“I want to expand further on the concept of these type-based portraits,” he says. We sure hope his dream comes true!

The post From the Street to the Museum: These Portraits Are Based on Graffiti appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Aryz is an artist from Spain who’s been interested in graffiti from childhood. He would always admire the street art he saw on his way to school. He first started by drawing on abandoned buildings, but today companies hire him to decorate facades of buildings around the world. You can see his work in many places, from Poland to Japan.

Aryz also works as an artist and illustrator. When he’s not painting on a building, he’s in his studio. His small-scale works have been exhibited in France before and are currently on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy from November 14th, 2019 to February 16th, 2020.

Scroll down to see his work.

The post Street Artist Aryz Creates Huge Murals appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Zabou is a French artist currently living in London. So far, she has painted 181 murals in 17 countries, using 2097 spray cans! Her mission is to travel and paint giant portraits that will make the world a nicer place to be.  

Most often, she spray-paints large-scale portraits. The portraits are emphasized by always being in black and white technique, while the background is colorful and playful. She explores various themes through her artworks and draws her inspiration from history and the surroundings where she paints. Most common motifs in her work are humans, art, icons, music, nature, love, and empowerment.  

She emphasizes the importance of public art according to her, street art and graffiti enable people living in different communities, but on the same geographic location to connect. It changes cities in a way of giving them life and creating social dialogue, inspiration or revolt.  

The post French Street Artist Paints Amazingly Realistic Murals appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Now he creates visual work including typography, lettering, and illustrations for clients around the world such as MTV, CNN, and HBO; while his Instagram page is equally trendy, with more than 132k followers.

“The hardest part of my job is finding a good quote or a word,” he admits. “I could spend hours looking for a good one. Since I have the phrase or word I start to make the sketches in different styles, after having chosen the best one I proceed to do it with a marker, brush or directly digital on a tablet. Finally, I place the lettering on a photo or image.”

“​I think the strokes are very important element in order to create a nice lettering piece, also the thickness and kerning are very important,” he says. “Sometimes I have the same mistakes, I usually see different works of great artists to have a better idea of how to do it and that’s how I improve my work!”

Strongly influenced by his background in graffiti, his calligraphy art is bold, vibrant, and full of movement. Take a look at some of our favorite works by him and follow his Instagram page for more.

The post Lettering Artist is Inspired by Graffiti appeared first on PlayJunkie.

He is known for his exquisite body of art that fuses dark humor with graffiti executed as a combination of stencils and spray-paint that leaves no one indifferent. His street art dominates the urban space in various countries across the globe and it carries strong and controversial messages with a political, philosophical, social, or environmental background.

Banksy remains the world’s most-renewed graffiti artist who inspires people with his mysterious character. Many street artists are motivated by his art narrative that always sparks the curiosity and provokes the viewers to explore his work.

This approach that he uses is known under the widely popular term the “Banksy Effect.” It’s a term that was popularized after Banksy first appeared on the street art scene in the 1990s it’s associated with his signature stenciled works of street art that always convey a message.

The post Banksy: The Mysterious Street Artist That Dominates Urban Space appeared first on PlayJunkie.

With the LED lights shining his murals consist of 2 colors: red filter to see the red layer, a blue filter to observe the blue, and with these two layers together you will be able to see the true beauty of his art.

After his involvement in a World Record where he created the largest glow in the dark painting in Ras Al Khaimah in the United Emirates, his mission became to travel around the world and share his paintings on every wall he sees.

Scroll down and see his insanely good pieces of work.

The post 3D Realistic Mind-Blowing Graffiti By Greek Artist Stathis Tsavalis appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“Since then I have pushed and experimented with this idea of overlapping words, seeing how many I can fit into the space of one word, and then slowly boiling it down and simplifying this idea to become more legible,” – he recently told Colossal. “This in turn lead more to the use of ‘typography’ throughout my style as you see today. I have always been interested in the idea of graffiti speaking to the general public, rather than just other graffiti writers, and readable letters or a more ‘typographic’ approach has been a good route to that.”

You can check out some of his works below.

The post British Graffiti Artist Creates Impressive Multi-Layered 3D Typographies appeared first on PlayJunkie.