No. 254 Stylewriting

Their works are generally classified as damage to property and disqualified as vandalism. Only in exceptional cases have sprayers won recognition in the biotopes of “high” culture. Once the distinction between criminality and art has been set aside, however, a much more nuanced picture emerges. With their strongly conceptual approach, rigorous time management, precision handling of space and development of their own distinctive idiom, most sprayers have mastered the fundamentals of just about every design discipline. Graffiti is to be the focus of form 254. Also coming up in that issue: Gerhard Buurman on “Design and the social machine called money”, Jörg Stürzebecher taking a critical look at the Ferdinand Kramer exhibition in Frankfurt and our materials specialist Mareike Gast, introducing dye-sensitized solar cells.