{"id":3704,"date":"2013-03-23T00:36:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T04:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2013-03-23T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T13:37:49","slug":"new-artwork-ian-rogers-my-sketchbook-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/23\/new-artwork-ian-rogers-my-sketchbook-4\/","title":{"rendered":"New Artwork \u2013 Ian Rogers \u2013 My Sketchbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s been some time since I’ve posted. I’ve been super busy with home & work but that’s no excuse, right? Here’s a look at my sketchbook for now.<\/p>\n

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I read an interesting article (I forget the source, sorry – getting old I guess) about how handstyles are looked down on, as tags are mostly crap… At the same time they’re the entry point to graffiti for most people ) and they’re effectively the last remainder of calligraphy and actually doing lettering in any meaningful way. There’s some value to that. \u00a0Sure, many \u00a0are crap but it’s people starting out so that’s to be expected. Nobody likes to wake up to see their front door toy tagged but \u00a0whatever. I don’t hate tags but I do look at pieces as more impressive, but maybe that’s because my background is fine arts instead of graf. I don’t look down on graf \u00a0(at all) and actively love street art (I’m beginning to understand the reasons for the division between street art and graffiti even if I don’t think it’s that important) but the thought that tags are essentially calligraphy is a very charming one.<\/p>\n

In any case this is me thinking about all that, playing with acrylic markers and my sketchbook. Make of it what you will.\u00a0As always this is in my Moleskine\u2026\u00a0if you like to beat the heck out of your sketchbooks and are looking for a nice pocket-style book, you can always get a\u00a0Moleskine\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0for yourself.<\/p>\n

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\/\/edit – I found the article! It was on imprint<\/a>, about Christian Acker.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tap keyboards far more frequently than we touch pen to paper,\u201d designer and author\u00a0Christian Acker<\/a>\u00a0says in his introduction to\u00a0Flip the Script: A Guidebook for Aspiring Vandals and Typographers\u00a0<\/i><\/a>(Ginko Press, 2013). \u201cGraffiti may well be the last great execution of highly practiced penmanship in popular culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flip the Script<\/i>\u00a0seeks to contextualize the tagging styles of American graffiti writers from different periods and regions in visual history. This is the first book of its kind, and it is vast in its scope.\u00a0Flip the Script<\/i>\u00a0documents over 500 signatures, or \u201ctags,\u201d the calling card of the street writer. Acker systematically analyzes historic hand styles by collecting a remarkable body of work from the most influential US cities, and searching for the common threads that connect cultures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well, it’s been some time since I’ve posted. I’ve been super busy with home & work but that’s no excuse, right? Here’s a look at my sketchbook for now. I read an interesting article (I forget the source, sorry –…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[207,221,228],"tags":[147,229,686,773,526],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calligraphy-and-lettering","category-drawing","category-my-sketchbook","tag-grey-not-grey","tag-ian-rogers","tag-moleskine","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2JDlZ-XK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}