Yoshida practices what she preaches. A member of the Society for Calligraphy in Southern California, she has studied from master calligraphers and has taken many classes and workshops to improve her skills.

“After attending various workshops and conferences, the best takeaway is that calligraphy is a life-long learning experience,” she writes on her website. “There are students who are already very skilled, yet still very humble and want to learn from the best. I find that extremely inspiring. I am a perpetual student and truly believe we should never stop learning to improve our craft. I have learned so much, but I have a lifetime’s worth of studying to go.”

A graphic designer by day and a calligraphy enthusiast by night, she stresses that there’s nothing wrong with being self-taught, but that at least for her, mastering her craft meant going to the source. Scrolling through her Instagram page might inspire you to do just that.

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“As a kid, I was into hip hop culture,” he relayed in a candid interview with Art Radar. “Graffiti was the natural medium for me to express myself in an artistic way. It became more and more a case of [me finding my] identity and reconnecting with my Arabic roots.”

A mixture of graffiti art and Arabic calligraphy, his artwork can be found all across the globe, anywhere from the façade of L’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and the favelas of Rio di Janeiro to the DMZ in between North and South Korea and the heart of Cairo’s garbage collectors neighborhood.

Born in 1981 in Paris to Tunisian parents, he utilizes Arabic calligraphy as a way to build a bridge between his French and Tunisian backgrounds. “I mix graffiti, which is a ‘western’ medium (although I don’t like to use this term) and Arabic calligraphy, which is an ancient eastern way of expression,” he says. “I think that’s the power of calligraphy and art in general. [They] bring two worlds together and link them. That’s why I feel that my work speaks for me.”

Follow his thought-provoking work on Instagram.

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“The Calligrafuturism is my self-developed style,” explained Lampas in an interview with the Fendi blog. “We’re all living in a multi-cultural world and if I can help people to learn more about foreign calligraphy, they’ll learn more about other countries. So that’s why Calligrafuturism is so important for me, I don’t want to make something new just because I’m crazy, I want to create it because I can see a very big knowledge and that’s why I’m doing it.”

According to Lampas, being a “Calligraffiti Ambassador” is a great way to create art non-stop. “Now I can easily take a big bucket of paint and perform my art everywhere,” he says. “On walls, on glass, on cars!”. Lampas knows what he’s talking about. In 2015, he performed the first world’s largest calligraffiti on the roof of a building in Moscow – an artwork that can be seen from Google Earth.

He admits he’s always on the lookout for the next best surface to work on. “Of course, I prefer something smooth, but it depends on the material and the tools,” he says. “So, if I could find something very nice to work on outside this earth, it would probably be the moon. That would be my favorite surface!”

In the meanwhile, check out his Earthly creations.

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Born and raised in Hokkaido, Japan, Yamaguchi has been trained under Master Zuiho Sato since at the age of 6. As a small child, she loved drawing, writing stories, and anything to do with paper, paints, pencils, pens, and using her hands. She was also drawn to nature and enjoyed exploring the woods, hiking in the mountains, walking into the river, and playing with snow.

“Around 5-6 years old, I made a series of picture books with my illustrations and my little fantasy stories; about this bear exploring the forest, flying on the cloud, traveling around the world,” she shared with The Design Kids. “I remember bringing the book I made to the calligraphy school and showing it to Master Sato. My childhood dream was to become a novel writer.”

Currently based in Berkeley, California, Yamaguchi is celebrated for her calligraphy art which she performs and exhibits in galleries, museums, universities, and festivals in the United States, across Europe, and in Japan.

Watching her go is a mesmerizing experience, granted.

The post Aoi Yamaguchi’s Calligraphy Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen appeared first on TettyBetty.

Yoshida practices what she preaches. A member of the Society for Calligraphy in Southern California, she has studied from master calligraphers and has taken many classes and workshops to improve her skills.

“After attending various workshops and conferences, the best takeaway is that calligraphy is a life-long learning experience,” she writes on her website. “There are students who are already very skilled, yet still very humble and want to learn from the best. I find that extremely inspiring. I am a perpetual student and truly believe we should never stop learning to improve our craft. I have learned so much, but I have a lifetime’s worth of studying to go.”

A graphic designer by day and a calligraphy enthusiast by night, she stresses that there’s nothing wrong with being self-taught, but that at least for her, mastering her craft meant going to the source. Scrolling through her Instagram page might inspire you to do just that.

The post If At First You Don’t Succeed, Write, Write Again appeared first on TettyBetty.

“As a kid, I was into hip hop culture,” he relayed in a candid interview with Art Radar. “Graffiti was the natural medium for me to express myself in an artistic way. It became more and more a case of [me finding my] identity and reconnecting with my Arabic roots.”

A mixture of graffiti art and Arabic calligraphy, his artwork can be found all across the globe, anywhere from the façade of L’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and the favelas of Rio di Janeiro to the DMZ in between North and South Korea and the heart of Cairo’s garbage collectors neighborhood.

Born in 1981 in Paris to Tunisian parents, he utilizes Arabic calligraphy as a way to build a bridge between his French and Tunisian backgrounds. “I mix graffiti, which is a ‘western’ medium (although I don’t like to use this term) and Arabic calligraphy, which is an ancient eastern way of expression,” he says. “I think that’s the power of calligraphy and art in general. [They] bring two worlds together and link them. That’s why I feel that my work speaks for me.”

Follow his thought-provoking work on Instagram.

The post EL Seed’s Calligraphy Art Promotes a Message of Peace appeared first on TettyBetty.

“The Calligrafuturism is my self-developed style,” explained Lampas in an interview with the Fendi blog. “We’re all living in a multi-cultural world and if I can help people to learn more about foreign calligraphy, they’ll learn more about other countries. So that’s why Calligrafuturism is so important for me, I don’t want to make something new just because I’m crazy, I want to create it because I can see a very big knowledge and that’s why I’m doing it.”

According to Lampas, being a “Calligraffiti Ambassador” is a great way to create art non-stop. “Now I can easily take a big bucket of paint and perform my art everywhere,” he says. “On walls, on glass, on cars!”. Lampas knows what he’s talking about. In 2015, he performed the first world’s largest calligraffiti on the roof of a building in Moscow – an artwork that can be seen from Google Earth.

He admits he’s always on the lookout for the next best surface to work on. “Of course, I prefer something smooth, but it depends on the material and the tools,” he says. “So, if I could find something very nice to work on outside this earth, it would probably be the moon. That would be my favorite surface!”

In the meanwhile, check out his Earthly creations.

The post This Graffiti Artist Constantly Pushes the Envelope appeared first on TettyBetty.

Born and raised in Hokkaido, Japan, Yamaguchi has been trained under Master Zuiho Sato since at the age of 6. As a small child, she loved drawing, writing stories, and anything to do with paper, paints, pencils, pens, and using her hands. She was also drawn to nature and enjoyed exploring the woods, hiking in the mountains, walking into the river, and playing with snow.

“Around 5-6 years old, I made a series of picture books with my illustrations and my little fantasy stories; about this bear exploring the forest, flying on the cloud, traveling around the world,” she shared with The Design Kids. “I remember bringing the book I made to the calligraphy school and showing it to Master Sato. My childhood dream was to become a novel writer.”

Currently based in Berkeley, California, Yamaguchi is celebrated for her calligraphy art which she performs and exhibits in galleries, museums, universities, and festivals in the United States, across Europe, and in Japan.

Watching her go is a mesmerizing experience, granted.

The post Aoi Yamaguchi’s Calligraphy Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen appeared first on TettyBetty.