MUSEROUND: Knitty Gritty Graffiti

I love graffiti. From the latin ‘to scratch’, the word graffiti applies to any marking put into a public space. We think of graffiti traditionally as freehand spray painted art situated along railway sidings or on subway trains. But readers, it need not be. Banksy’s Maid in London (below) is a fine example of stencil graffiti. And we’re going to get more creative than that. Still if you fancy a crack at drawing old skool graffiti, (in a safe and legal way of course) check out this WikiHow.  Or for an even safer option, try this graffiti colouring book or, download some free graffiti fonts at dafont and construct your own!

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See also Sticker Art (sticker bombing/slap tagging) where an image or message is pre-prepared and then publicly displayed using stickers. Inexpensively-purchased and free stickers such as “hello my name is” name tags are combined with hand-drawn art or inkjet labels can be home-printed in batch. Reminder kids – don’t vandalise things that you don’t own. But if you want to jolly up your personal property, here’s some flickr inspiration.

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One for the home? Vinyl decals!

1. Available on Etsy from Charming925 (amongst many others).

2. Something for the laptop from Vinylville.

3. Craftzine shows you how to design and make you own laptop decal.

4. I am very excited to try out this starched decal tutorial I saw at Design*Sponge. Perfect for renters, it peels right back off!

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But, this is MUSEROUND so why not get a little bit MORE crafty, thank you. Check out the phenomeon known as Yarn Bombing.

1. Knitta Please is based in Austin, Texas. When the collective’s first began tagging the streets in 2005, ‘yarnbombing’ was their response to the mass-produced, inserting handmade knitted and crochet art in a landscape of concrete and steel, and cheekily adding warmth to urban fixtures. See their blog here.

2. When the folks of Outdoor Knit called, the residents of Wellington NZ answered and  gathered one Sunday aft to weave colorful hearts into the spaces on the chain link fence.

3. Knitted Landscape.

4. Deeply Superficial People add some paper in to the mix.

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Even greener graffiti? MOSS?!

Top. Seen over at Treehugger.

Middle. Moss graffiti tutorial on Craft.

Bottom. Well it looks green but we’re back to spray paint again. Here.

Have fun not doing anything illegal!

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