RESEARCH : 123 Klan

As I have altered and expanded my concept, I though I had better expand my reasearch to show some of the influences I have absorbed when considering my new experiments.

The first of these is the French Graffiti/ Design outfit 123 Klan.



They group started out purely as graffiti artists and then moved into grpahic design after falling in love with the works of Neville Brody. Their style combines street-art styles with computer based vector design.



I personally love their style. As someone who has always been a fan of graffiti, I see 123klan as bringing graffiti to a new, digital audience. They have featured in many publicaitons and gallery events across the globe. The latest issue of Computer Arts Projects features a series of tutorials in various different digital graffiti styles, but the overall layout design is by 123klan.



The website states that there are certain things that 123klan do, and certain things that they don't:

"WHAT WE DO: We paint your walls, we do graffiti, we stick your city, we do posters, flyers, logos,illustrations, character design, covers, vector graffiti pieces, we do what we want when we want, we only work for cool people, we do exhibition, we do graffiti, we do gundams models, we do conference, we do live graffiti performance, we do teeshirts, we do stickers, we do skateboards graffix, we do only real shit, we do graffiti, graphic design and we will work for you only if you love us, PEACE!!!"

"WHAT WE DON'T: We don't do pitches, we don't do graffix for 2 peanuts, we don't lose our time, we don't bite, we don't do fake graffiti, we don't charge that much (well it depends...), we don't do websites, we don't do DR style, we don't play, we don't sell our asses to get a client, we don't work for free, we don't sell drugs, guns, swords, we don't like fake graffiti, we don't like to work in a hurry or in the last minute, we don't want to hurt you, PEACE!!!"

If ony all of us students could get away with those kind of ethos!