Sticker City: paper graffiti art

review:
The book explores the street art style of works of art on paper, glued to city surfaces. Claudia Walde gives an insight into this rising trend of this graffiti movement. Numerous pictures show the appearance of sticker art on walls, phone booths, curbs, traffic signs etc. (basically any public space), I think, when the pasted artworks are not over crowded with lots of other sticker art it is more effective and provokes a response from the nest onlooker. However its can look crappy if not much effort applied and can have a scungy appearance when weathered.

Claudia Walde, a graffiti artist herself, examines and displays the styles history and leading figures, such as, Shepard Fairey (obey), Blek le Rat's stencil graffiti and Rev's sticker flood in New Yok, in 1990's. Apart from various artist biographies, Walde looks into sticker art techniques used otday, which is incredibly interesting. The book shows the progression of the movement and concludes with a look into the future. The unique art inspires me and my design ideas. I can relate to the frequent stencil technique used in he book, as I have had a go doing it myself.