Scrawl - Dirty Graphics & Strange Characters

by Edward Booth-Clibborn (Editor)

The first survey of a group of artists who have come up from the streets, chopped the computer down to size and reconfigured the hand-made. Inhabiting a gray area somewhere between art, design and illegality these artists and writers operate outside the colleges and galleries of the art establishment. Their starting point was traditional graffiti with its notions of rebellion, outsider identity and urban tribalism. Scrawl - Dirty Graphics and Strange Characters is public art 21st century style. Using spray cans, brushes, stencils, Xerox machines, collage, computers, video and film they create intense images that are the visual equivalent of contemporary music's poly-rhythmic complexity. Scrawl highlights the work of over 30 artists and features commissions from cutting edge record labels.

176 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Edward Booth-Clibborn is a British graphic artist, advertising consultant, and publisher.

He began his creative career in J Walter Thompson’s typography department, going on to become an art director for brands that included Campbell Soup.

After 11 years, during which he’s said he became “rather renegade”, Booth-Clibborn left the agency and joined D&AD as Chairman in 1963.

He remained in the role for 30 years, later becoming an advertising consultant for the Labour Party. In 1974, Booth-Clibborn set up publishing company Booth-Clibborn Editions, focusing on books dedicated to art, design and popular culture