Spain

Madrid (Spain) ¿De dónde viene tu apodo? Where does your pseudonym come from? Mi abuela me daba cien pesetas y me decía para que te compres un ‘donus’cuando iba a la escuela. Cuando ella falleció pensé que eran un buen homenaje además todo el mundo reconoce la palabra Donuts y también empecé a dibujarlos en…

Going out on the street, seeing graffiti, fanzines, hanging out with my cousin who was already painting, seeing pieces and being amazed. There was a school in my cousin’s neighborhood where many graffiti writers gathered. We would go there to see the great artwork and colorful pieces. Salir a la calle, ver graffitis, fanzines, juntarme…

A classmate suggested I start tagging my name, and at that time there were “flecheros in madrid.” We looked for tags that would go well with that style, and fley tag came out. Un compañero de clase me propuso empezar a firmar, por ese tiempo estaban los «flecheros»  buscamos unas firmas que quedasen bien con…

STICK was born as a reaction. While many were looking for epic nicknames, I wanted something that represented my essence: letters with personality, perfect symmetry, and the possibility of integrating characters by replacing vowels. But beyond the form, it was a matter of identity: I wanted a name that wasn’t repeated in other cities, that…

My nickname doesn’t have much meaning; I just liked how it sounded. After signing with my brother at the beginning of it all in the mid-1980s as Yavik and B69, I decided on Rosk in the late 1980s, since everyone knew my brother and called him Yavik. Mi apodo no tiene mucho significado, simplemente me…

Pocho is a graffiti writer for over 30 years, his work reflects a consistent trajectory and a recognizable style. It’s not just about painting; it’s about living graffiti as a way of life. Pocho es un escritor de graffiti desde hace más de 30 años, es el reflejo de una trayectoria constante, con estilo reconocible,…

I was always interested in painting. My grandparents always worked in the fields, but when they were older and retired, they started painting. They had always wanted to paint, but at that time, with so many children, it was unthinkable; they had to earn a living. So I grew up watching them paint, and maybe…

I had seen tags and graffiti in my neighborhood, Pardinyes, in Lerida, and I started tagging the walls near my house with the tag “crash” for about three months or so. I met other writers from my neighborhood and neighboring neighborhoods (such as Owe, As, Psta, Cruel, Jam, and a few others), and I found…

When I was in seventh grade, I saw some classmates who started painting, and I also realized that even though rap and graffiti were two different things, they often went hand in hand, and I already liked rap…so I decided to find myself a tag (power at first) and start spraying my first little tags…

In the late 1980s, I was walking with my father down a street in downtown Zaragoza and there was some tags. It was very simple and had giant sparkles; it might have been done by someone from the American army guys because there were no tags yet, and I said to my father… I’m going…

The concept sums up pretty well the way I do things: a mixture of my contradictory nature and the frenetic pace of contemporary life, especially in a world so marked by technological specialization. Itsperfectchaos is, in a way, a way of accepting that chaos not only exists, but can also be fertile and productive. El…

From a young age, I always drew at home. My family really encouraged that side of me, and as a child, I had hundreds of drawings. I also consumed a lot of comics and manga, and I traced and copied countless scenes. I discovered the underground side of spray paint and the world of collecting…

From a very young age, I was influenced by the so-called flecheros (arrow artists) and started tagging my name, but in the mid-1990s, I began hanging out with the older rappers in my neighborhood, and that’s when I started to take graffiti more seriously. In 1995, I did my first piece. Desde muy pequeño iba…

My first graffiti was a piece with filling and brush strokes, but I didn’t take a photo of it. I didn’t take photos of any of the first pieces. La primera pieza creo que fue una con relleno y trazo a brocha, pero no le hice foto, a las primeras piezas no les hice fotos…

Mi apodo viene de Bicho por que siempre me a apasionado los insectos también llamado bichos, pero le cambie la C por la S tiene mas estilo y por que representa la S de Sevilla mi ciudad. My nickname comes from Bicho because I have always been passionate about insects, also known as bugs, but…

I actually don’t use a pseudonym. I chose to work under my real name because it feels like an essential part of my identity. Ona means “wave of the sea” in Catalan, and Salvador is my father’s surname, a legacy I carry with pride in everything I create. My name represents my roots and the…

Spain ¿De dónde viene tu apodo? Where does your pseudonym come from? En principio tenía otro nombre, aunque siempre he tenido varios. Puño se me ocurrió un día sin más, me parecía un tag muy político, street punk, macarra y que me representaba mucho. Es el tag que más años llevo escribiendo y que no…

Bilbao (Spain) ¿De dónde viene tu apodo? Where does your pseudonym come from? Mi primer tag fue Fucker (traducido como cabrón en español) y después lo cambie a KerOne, pero creo que 6 letras son demasiado en graffiti y decidi reducirlo. Desde finales de los 90s KERO es el tag que me ha acompañado en…

Seville (Spain) ¿De dónde viene tu apodo?  Where does your pseudonym come from? Mi apodo Rans viene de diferentes circunstancias y evolución, mi primer tag oficial fue Snag tenias diferentes significados en ingles, me gusto y fue el primero por el que me decante en el año 2001, posiblemente anterior a ese año no recuerdo…

Aranda de Duero (Spain) ¿De dónde viene tu apodo? Where does your pseudonym come from? Pues Häcko viene de cuando teníamos 14 o 15 años y buscando un apodo mejor que el que tenía, apareció la famosa frase del Zatu “engánchate al graffiti y no al Jako” y boom ahí estaba, y el Crâne es…

Spain ¿De dónde viene tu apodo? Where does your pseudonym come from? «Pura» proviene de «Pura Decadencia», que es el nombre artístico que utilizaba antes incluso de empezar a pintar graffitis. Cuando empecé a pintar letras, lo acorté a simplemente «Pura». «Pura Decadencia» hacía referencia a una mala época por la que estaba pasando y…

¿De dónde viene tu apodo? Where does your pseudonym come from? El nombre “Kurtis” viene de una mezcla entre mi nombre real y 50 cent. De pequeño solía escucharlo mucho y mis colegas me acabaron llamando Kurtis. Después decidí escribir ese nombre y me gustó el resultado en papel y continué con él hasta el…

Madrid (Spain) ¿De dónde viene tu firma?  Where does your pseudonym come from? De la combinación de cuatro letras.  Busqué cuatro letras que me gustaran y fueran armónicas. No tiene otro sentido.  From the combination of four letters. I looked for four letters that I liked and that were harmonious. It has no other meaning….

L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona (Spain) ¿De dónde viene tu apodo? Where does your pseudonym come from? Mi nombre viene de Tony one (TONE).  My name comes from Tony One (TONE).      ¿Qué te motivó para empezar a pintar? What motivated you to get started painting? Supongo que uno lo tiene dentro, desde pequeño me…