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In The Graffiti Coloring Book, sixty of Scandinavia’s best graffiti writers have provided the outlines. You choose the colors. The graffiti sketch can be used as a pattern for a graffiti piece, but is equally a work of art in its own right. The book features drawings by legends such as Skil, Nug, Egs and Bates. The Graffiti Coloring Book is as fun for children as adults. Get out your markers and walk the path of the kings of graffiti.
Here comes the book where you can decide how graffiti should be colored yourself. More than sixty of the best graffiti writers in Scandinavia have done sketches with thick black contours for this classic and unusual coloring book.

The book allows you to practice your coloring skills to sketches by writers like Nug from Stockholm, Egs from Helsinki and Bates from Copenhagen. Graffiti sketches act as patterns for graffiti pieces but are also works of art in their own right. The book is an inspiring document of its time as well as a coloring book.
Dokument Förlag have previously published coloring books like Gangster Rap Coloring Book and George Bush Coloring Book.
“After publishing several books on graffiti, it felt right to issue a coloring book on the subject,” says publisher Malcolm Jacobson.
The job of collecting sketches was assigned to the Stockholm graffiti Uzi, of international renown.
Uzi asked the writers he deems to be the best and most current to do sketches especially for the Graffiti Coloring Book. They include both newcomers and legends. The age of contributors spans from 20 to 40.
It is hard to discern one Scandinavian style as you leaf through the book. The styles vary from Ador’s fragmented letter pictures to Disey’s wildstyle to Que’s train style.
“Scandinavian styles fit quite well in black-and-white,” says Uzi with satisfaction, having nagged for months to obtain the coveted sketches.
Writers may spend all day doing pieces, but sitting down to draw a sketch for printing is a rare occasion for most writers.
“You’d think everybody would want to participate in a book like this, but gathering the material was harder than you’d think,” says Uzi.

A few contributors:
• Ador, from Stockholm, is a pioneer of the attractively ugly style that was launched in Scandinavia in the mid-90s.
• Bates, from Denmark, is one of the world’s most famous graffiti writers and lies in the foreground of Scandinavian graffiti. His crew All In One comprises writers from Denmark, Norway and Sweden, including Tarik Saleh.
• Disey is just as important to Swedish graffiti as Ingmar Bergman was to Swedish film.
• Egs is possibly the best and most important writer in Finland.
• Nug’s clear graphic style has changed the way graffiti is made and has had a huge impact on Sweden and the rest of the world.
• Que is a member of the Stockholm graffiti group Writers United Football Club (WUFC). He seldom sketches, but contributes a humorous drawing of graffiti as a game of cat and mouse to the book.
• Uzi, from WUFC, has written graffiti on walls and trains around the world since the mid-80s.

About Dokument Förlag:
Dokument Förlag teaches about subcultures through the publication and distribution of books, films and magazines. The company is run by enthusiasts with much knowledge on, and love for, subcultures. In the anonymous environments of our times, the human need to create an identity constantly forges new subcultures. But knowledge of subcultures is restricted. Through their publications, Dokument Förlag fill a gap in the Swedish book and media market.

Facts:
Title: Graffiti Coloring Book
Editor: Uzi
Format: 21.5x28 cm
Binding: Paperback
No. of pages: 64
No. of illustrations: 63
Publication date: May 2008
ISBN 978-91-85639-08-3
RRP: 78 SEK

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