And with some of his canvases as big as whole buildings, his message is heard loud and clear. Born in Durango, México and currently based in Brooklyn, Gonzalez took to calligraphy at a young age, without even realizing he could write for a living.

“I was lucky in Mexico that this was taught to us, starting in elementary school,” he relayed in an interview with We Heart. “I never thought it was a profession, so I just did it because I enjoyed it. I was also exposed to lettering through my grandfather — after seeing photos of his work in the 1940s and ’50s.”

Having later studied graphic design, sharpened his technical skills and gave him the opportunity to go to school for typeface design and attend workshops. “Some of the tools I use to create come back to graffiti and how it has influenced me over the years,” he notes. “I also like to experiment with the combination of digital and analog; handmade and contemporary.”

With clients as huge as Apple, Nike, Mercedes Benz, and Google, his experimentation proved fruitful. Take a look at some of his more eye-popping typography work in the gallery below.

The post Ricardo Gonzalez Chooses His Words Carefully 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.

“I feel lucky to have studied as an artist in the streets and later in a college,” he told Acclaim Magazine. “In doing so, I always felt like I had to keep my artistry of the streets and love of letters separate from what I was learning in school. I used to separate what I could create, so, for example, I would tell myself ‘this is for graffiti’, and ‘that is for the galleries’, today I don’t. Now I am combining my love of everything together, which you will begin to see unfold in the years to come.”

Rodriguez categorizes his art into two types of portraiture: Topographical Portraiture and Type Faces. While his Topographical Portraits are made by stylizing a portrait with topographical lines and shapes, reminding of geographic maps, his Type Faces incorporate typography and portraiture.

His unique style of painting took the art world by storm, and his pieces are now shown in public art spaces, museums, companies, and galleries, as well as published in editorial publications. Though best experienced in person, you can also follow his work online through his Instagram page.

The post Samuel Rodriguez’s Street Art Packs a Punch appeared first on TettyBetty.

Aryz usually adorns his walls with characters, portraying them in powerful poses of conflict or contemplation. However, he does sometimes make the odd exception of painting inanimate objects. Regardless of their content, his paintings are instantly recognizable due to his distinct use of pale colors and heavy emphasis on blue-yellow contrast.

“I started painting with graffiti people from my town,” Aryz told Polish magazine Puszka. “they were making letters, and I was making characters between letters. After a while, I had a stupid injury in my finger for pressing in a wrong way the spray cans. So I started to use more brush instead of spray.”

Remarkably, Aryz’s old crowd didn’t like the switch and kicked him out of their posse: “The same time the guys I was painting with said that my works were not cool anymore because I was not using spray cans, so we finished our cooperation. After that, I started painting for myself, trying to do more characters and big paintings.”

It seems that things turned out for the best for both Aryz and the walls he is gracing with his art. He’s been to many cities around the world, including Katowice, Tokyo, and Nevada. Wouldn’t it be cool to wake up one morning and find him working on a building across the street from you?

The post No Wall is Too Big For Aryz to Paint On appeared first on TettyBetty.

Joachim grew up in Antwerp, where he followed the graffiti scene from a young age. As he grew up, he experimented with styles until he found his own way to express himself.

“Joachim is a young, prolific and highly talented street artist from Antwerp, Belgium,” reads his profile on I Support Street Art. “His distinctive graffiti pop-style is impossible to ignore. He is well known for his childlike spontaneity, as well as being willing to experiment with a wide range of styles.”

“Complicated compositions, and a playful use of colours, can be seen throughout the artist’s body of work.Joachim enjoys creating both street art and pieces in his own studio. He considers himself a full-time, utterly dedicated artist. With multiple street art murals to his name, sell out prints and shows across Europe, Joachim has earnt his reputation within the urban art scene.”

You can see more of Joachim’s art on his Instagram and Facebook profiles, where he shares it with tens of thousands of followers. In the meantime, scroll down for our favorite picks.

The post Belgian Artist Paints Colorful Graffiti appeared first on TettyBetty.

You can see Mardi, mostly dressed in a rabbit costume, in different forms and situations on murals scattered all across Bangkok but in other cities of the world as well. According to Alex Face, the character is inspired by his daughter and represents” every child who has to face the troubled world upon birth.”

Meet Mardi below.

The post Meet Mardi, Character from the Works of Graffiti Artist Alex Face appeared first on TettyBetty.

Pref has around two decades of experience as a graffiti artist and during this time he got to play around with typography and street art a lot.

As a long-term member of the ID crew, PREF has been an internationally praised artist for quite a while now. Check out his work below.

The post Graffiti Artist Creates Multi-Layered Lettering on Walls appeared first on TettyBetty.

And with some of his canvases as big as whole buildings, his message is heard loud and clear. Born in Durango, México and currently based in Brooklyn, Gonzalez took to calligraphy at a young age, without even realizing he could write for a living.

“I was lucky in Mexico that this was taught to us, starting in elementary school,” he relayed in an interview with We Heart. “I never thought it was a profession, so I just did it because I enjoyed it. I was also exposed to lettering through my grandfather — after seeing photos of his work in the 1940s and ’50s.”

Having later studied graphic design, sharpened his technical skills and gave him the opportunity to go to school for typeface design and attend workshops. “Some of the tools I use to create come back to graffiti and how it has influenced me over the years,” he notes. “I also like to experiment with the combination of digital and analog; handmade and contemporary.”

With clients as huge as Apple, Nike, Mercedes Benz, and Google, his experimentation proved fruitful. Take a look at some of his more eye-popping typography work in the gallery below.

The post Ricardo Gonzalez Chooses His Words Carefully 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.

“I feel lucky to have studied as an artist in the streets and later in a college,” he told Acclaim Magazine. “In doing so, I always felt like I had to keep my artistry of the streets and love of letters separate from what I was learning in school. I used to separate what I could create, so, for example, I would tell myself ‘this is for graffiti’, and ‘that is for the galleries’, today I don’t. Now I am combining my love of everything together, which you will begin to see unfold in the years to come.”

Rodriguez categorizes his art into two types of portraiture: Topographical Portraiture and Type Faces. While his Topographical Portraits are made by stylizing a portrait with topographical lines and shapes, reminding of geographic maps, his Type Faces incorporate typography and portraiture.

His unique style of painting took the art world by storm, and his pieces are now shown in public art spaces, museums, companies, and galleries, as well as published in editorial publications. Though best experienced in person, you can also follow his work online through his Instagram page.

The post Samuel Rodriguez’s Street Art Packs a Punch appeared first on TettyBetty.

Aryz usually adorns his walls with characters, portraying them in powerful poses of conflict or contemplation. However, he does sometimes make the odd exception of painting inanimate objects. Regardless of their content, his paintings are instantly recognizable due to his distinct use of pale colors and heavy emphasis on blue-yellow contrast.

“I started painting with graffiti people from my town,” Aryz told Polish magazine Puszka. “they were making letters, and I was making characters between letters. After a while, I had a stupid injury in my finger for pressing in a wrong way the spray cans. So I started to use more brush instead of spray.”

Remarkably, Aryz’s old crowd didn’t like the switch and kicked him out of their posse: “The same time the guys I was painting with said that my works were not cool anymore because I was not using spray cans, so we finished our cooperation. After that, I started painting for myself, trying to do more characters and big paintings.”

It seems that things turned out for the best for both Aryz and the walls he is gracing with his art. He’s been to many cities around the world, including Katowice, Tokyo, and Nevada. Wouldn’t it be cool to wake up one morning and find him working on a building across the street from you?

The post No Wall is Too Big For Aryz to Paint On appeared first on TettyBetty.

Joachim grew up in Antwerp, where he followed the graffiti scene from a young age. As he grew up, he experimented with styles until he found his own way to express himself.

“Joachim is a young, prolific and highly talented street artist from Antwerp, Belgium,” reads his profile on I Support Street Art. “His distinctive graffiti pop-style is impossible to ignore. He is well known for his childlike spontaneity, as well as being willing to experiment with a wide range of styles.”

“Complicated compositions, and a playful use of colours, can be seen throughout the artist’s body of work.Joachim enjoys creating both street art and pieces in his own studio. He considers himself a full-time, utterly dedicated artist. With multiple street art murals to his name, sell out prints and shows across Europe, Joachim has earnt his reputation within the urban art scene.”

You can see more of Joachim’s art on his Instagram and Facebook profiles, where he shares it with tens of thousands of followers. In the meantime, scroll down for our favorite picks.

The post Belgian Artist Paints Colorful Graffiti appeared first on TettyBetty.

You can see Mardi, mostly dressed in a rabbit costume, in different forms and situations on murals scattered all across Bangkok but in other cities of the world as well. According to Alex Face, the character is inspired by his daughter and represents” every child who has to face the troubled world upon birth.”

Meet Mardi below.

The post Meet Mardi, Character from the Works of Graffiti Artist Alex Face appeared first on TettyBetty.

Pref has around two decades of experience as a graffiti artist and during this time he got to play around with typography and street art a lot.

As a long-term member of the ID crew, PREF has been an internationally praised artist for quite a while now. Check out his work below.

The post Graffiti Artist Creates Multi-Layered Lettering on Walls appeared first on TettyBetty.