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Dumb cow.

In December 2004 I purchased a book by Tristan Manco entitled Street Logos. In the book the author looks at the development of street art today from its roots in 1980's hip-hop culture and describes how street/graffiti artists have changed from basic 'tagging' (names and typography) to a more evolved and expressive art form.

Current graffiti art is more reflective of the world around it. Using new materials and techniques, its innovators are creating an original language of forms and images infused with contemporary graphic design and illustration. Fluent in branding and graphic imagery, they have been replacing tags with more personal logos and shifting from typographic to iconographic forms of communication. Subverted signs, spontaneous drawings, powerful symbols and curious characters represent an unstoppable worldwide outdoor gallery of free art. (Tristan Manco. 2004).

The approach of many artists within the book inspired me to develop a series of images called Dumb Cow'. The images I have created are based around a number of colloquial sayings. The high contract black and white format of the images was also a direction inspired by the book.

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onedotzero / U2 contributions

In December 2004 Andy Stiff forwarded a mail to all students that was sent from Daryl in onedotzero. The email was a call for contributions for visual content to be used in U2's 2005 world tour.