• Bolotron

    My name Bolo originally came from a character that represents the street wear brand (school of the hard knocks), that brand was so famous during the 90s and early 00s ,and I was 14 years old pop locking dancer at the time and I used to wear that gear with the character a lot that…

  • Wedo Goás

    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…

  • Comeske

    My pseudonym or tag name comes from the word commercial.  Growing up in the Bronx in the 80s-90s and always seeing graffiti everywhere from trains , streets to highways and everything in between.  There was a writer whom was definitely a style master he wrote «Cromag» Imok (rest in peace). I was so interested and…

  • Shub110

    Shub has been my nickname since 2004. Friends from that time gave it to me as a reference to the character Chewbacca from Star Wars. It was first pronounced “Chewb,” and more recently “Shub.” “110” (or one ten) is a concept I created within the Street BikeTrial community. I practiced this sport intensely between 1998-2002…

  • Adham Madhoun

    Gaza (Palestine) ¿Qué te motivó para empezar a pintar? What motivated you to get started painting? Siempre me atrajeron los colores de la calle y cómo el arte puede transformar un espacio aburrido en algo lleno de vida. Ver a otros artistas expresar su libertad a través del arte urbano me inspiró a tomar un…

  • K12ne one

    When I was 19, an older my friend gave me the nickname “Korone”. I had never been given a strange nickname at that time, so I liked it and started drawing it as KORONE. after breaking it down a little,as KRNE. After that, with what to draw in the public and artwork I decided to…

  • Rame

    Rame means “copper” in Italian. Before choosing that name I tried many others, because I was looking for something that could really represent me when I started painting. When I found Rame, it just felt right: I liked the way it sounded, the way it looked written, and also its meaning. Copper is a strong…

  • Fantomas

    I got into graffiti art in 1996, through a friend, with whom I started writing my first tags. I see motivation in development, in my opinion every writer develops in a certain way… Me inicié en el graffiti en 1996, gracias a un amigo, con quien empecé a escribir mis primeras firmas. Veo la motivación…

  • Leskule

    Metz (France) Mi firma no tiene ningún significado en particular. Al principio, solo quería una firma que empezara por la letra S, una letra con la que me gustaba trabajar. Cuando empecé a pintar en 2002, la escribía sin la E al final. Fue en 2005 cuando añadí la E, principalmente para enriquecer mi letra…

  • Fil

    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…

  • Pahone

    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…

  • Waffle

    It is a really long story  i took another old friends tag and remade it to Wafl. Eventually people started to call me the waffle so thats why im the Waffle now. Es una historia muy larga. Cogí la firma de otro viejo amigo y la convertí en Wafl. Al final, la gente empezó a llamarme…

  • Uger

    I can’t really remember where my pseudonym came from as it was such a long time ago, I think I was just thinking for some letters that are gonna look good for graffiti, and hence came up with Uger, probably at the age of 13-14. No recuerdo muy bien de dónde viene mi seudónimo, ya…

  • Tizer

    I started in 1988, with my brother and 2 friends.  We had been looking at Style Writing for a few years before hand and really liked it. In South London there weren’t many tube lines so people were more into bus bombing. Back then you could tell where someone was from by their handstyles. South…

  • Junk-R

    Yokohama (Japan) “I’ve always felt like I was stuck in between—not a model student, not a villain, and not particularly good at anything. I chose the name JUNK-R from that feeling: ‘JUNK’ for something considered useless, and ‘R’ from my real name, Ryota.” «Siempre me he sentido como si estuviera atrapado en medio: no soy un estudiante…

  • Mone

    When I started doing graffiti in 1990, I first experimented with different names. Around 1995, I finally settled on the name MONE. Back then, people were looking for relatively short names—usually three to four letters—that were quick to write. I liked the letters M‑O‑N‑E because of their flow, and at the same time they felt…

  • Whyre87

    My name Whyre comes from the word “Wire”, inspired by the TV series The Wire, which I was a big fan of. The idea of “wire” also means being wired, connected, like being plugged in. For me, it represents being connected to hip-hop culture and graffiti, both mentally and creatively. I also chose this name…

  • Madblast Hiro

    I’ve loved hip-hop music and street fashion since high school, and I once thought that if I ever created my own fashion brand, “Mad Blast” would be the perfect name. That was the beginning. Later on, I combined “Hiro” from my real name, Hiroyasu, and that became my current artist name. In the end, I…

  • DirtySix

    I come from a small town and didn’t have any brothers or sisters, so when I was little, I didn’t have much to do for fun. I became passionate about drawing at a very young age, as soon as I could hold a pencil, in fact. So as soon as I discovered hip hop culture,…

  • Human Robo96

    When I was about 14 and going to school in Berlin, two boys from my year group failed a grade. They used to tag our blackboards before class. At first, I wasn’t impressed. But then, on the way to school one morning, they started covering the packed bus with thick, bold markers, and I was…

  • Paconer

    I started painting for several reasons. I’ve been drawing since I was a child, and when I discovered graffiti, I fell in love because I could combine what I’d always loved to do with a «game» where only your skills mattered. At that point in my life, graffiti was the key. Empecé a pintar por…

  • Honor One

    The origin of my name, Honor, comes from my mom placing a Bible in my suitcase when I lived in Europe In the 80s. I was looking for a positive word in reading through the text, and I kept seeing the word Honor. I liked the letters and even more so the meaning behind the…

  • Asick

    I got into graffiti because a friend I rode BMX with was writing. I was also inspired by the graffiti I saw in Australia and the dope masterpieces at the ‘Mokuzaiko’ spot in Hiroshima. Me metí en el mundo del graffiti porque un amigo con el que montaba en BMX se dedicaba a ello. También…