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Graffiti Taxonomy

By Alex in Arts & Crafts on Apr 15, 2008 at 1:13 pm


Graffiti Taxonomy is a project by Evan Roth aka ni9e of Graffiti Research Lab. It is a study of the styles of the alphabets used in graffiti found New York:

Graffiti Taxonomy presents isolated letters from various graffiti tags, reproduced in similar scales and at close proximity. The intent of these studies is to show the diversity of styles as expressed in a single character. In these photographs, the ‘S’ is reproduced from photographs of tags taken in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, while the ‘A’ is reproduced from tags from Central Park North to 125th St. in Harlem.

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  1. Thespian24601
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    So everyone writes letters different. I don't get it.

  2. Viola
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    The idea was nifty, but the execution lost me entirely.

  3. bean
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    It is a very cool idea, but my ultimate response as the audience is 'so what?'

    I guess that's what he meant by ongoing project. He's collected some information, but hasn't even begun to try to derive significance from it. I'd love to see his hypothesis on trends or histories.

  4. CheeseDuck
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    Um. What's the point?

  5. duus
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

    it would be cool to have a font of this, that selects a letter from the available alternatives randomly.

  6. bean
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

    duus-
    Ha. You could call the font 'ransom note'.

  7. Thomas
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    hmm... I must be missing something.

  8. ted
    Apr 15th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

    To what end?

  9. JakeTheSnake
    Apr 16th, 2008 at 1:02 am

    this is so awesome, ever since I was little i loved creative caligraphy especially the different styles used in graffiti, I wish he did this for every letter

  10. Oomi
    Apr 16th, 2008 at 1:02 am

    an S is an S

  11. cherishimo
    Apr 16th, 2008 at 9:53 am

    Fantastic. Of course, you could also ID taggers this way. Which is less fantastic.

  12. ty
    Apr 17th, 2008 at 1:06 am

    it would be truly awesome if it had a phylogenetic tree.

  13. sonia
    Jul 24th, 2008 at 3:58 am

    Sonia

  14. Jazzy Girl
    Sep 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 am

    heey dudes nice graffiti, yo.
    cool isnt it i have wokd nicer on it
    look to it on jazzy@girl.com
    or on http://www.jazzy'splace.com

  15. [myst] lochie
    Sep 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    this is a shit website and no one should use it

  16. ^^mArCeLa^^
    Sep 6th, 2008 at 11:48 am

    Tak Tak Super ale i tak nic nie rozumiem bo to po angielsku! Hehe ;) NoooTTTT

  17. DOMINIK
    Oct 17th, 2008 at 8:43 am

    STER

  18. 2high
    Feb 7th, 2009 at 6:02 am

    its good i guess but put other letters

  19. loser1527
    Mar 25th, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    what the point! need mor than the letter s!

  20. loser1527
    Mar 25th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    boring! DRAW MOR THAN A STUPID S DUDE EVEN I CAN DO BETTER THAN YOU!LOL :(

  21. ZACKIE
    May 18th, 2009 at 8:34 am

    cooland funtsic

  22. pigprinces-s
    Dec 31st, 2009 at 4:05 am

    uhm, S,S and S, what about other letters?????
    =====>tr?i ?i sao ch? có S thôi v?y?? <======

  23. clauz
    Jan 5th, 2010 at 9:19 pm

    hmm... its good

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