After read all the interview answers of the 10 graffiti artists, to avoid the audiences lazy to read the thousand words, i had made them in point form to get the readers/audiences easy to read and understand.
5 information will be putting inside the profile of each graffiti artists:
- Graffiti Artist
- About Him/Her
- Title of Graffiti
- Style and Description
- Link
1
Gaffiti Artist: SNOZZE
About Him:
>Graffiti artist
>Love Graffiti because can see a future of Graffiti.
Title of Graffiti: "Gajah in da house"
Style and Description:
>Wildstyle
>About his style, "MINANG KAU KAU BAU" is introducing himself as Snozze.
As Malay of Minang descent, "Minangkabau" is his root where he comes from.
"Kaw Kaw" (Gao, Kaw, Gaw and Kao) means thick in hokkein lauguage.
The term is often said by the people to the coffee in Malaysia Kopitiam.
"Bau" is the Malay word, means smell.
"Gajah" for him means "Graffiti Artist in South East Asian", they are big and powerful.
>"So the title of the this wall painting "Gajah in da house" means we are exist in our society." said by SNOOZE
Link: Website
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snozze
http://www.myspace.com/snozze
Email
jepuniese@yahoo.com
snozze_crime@live.com.my
2
Graffiti Artist: Chern 67
About Him:
>Many writers in KL played letters, but he played characters.
>Graffiti is cool, fun and challenging.
>Love carrying paints, marker, stickers around, just like hit and run.
Title of Graffiti: Characters in mafia suit (do not give a proper name)
Style and Description:
>"The style I used is character with twin Iris eye.
I wanted to make people easily recognize my characters' characteristic
and I found out that eyes is always the best focus point among facial features
Just like when talking to people, you see their eyes instead.
My characters' eyes are inspired from the chinese word "?".
It means it is huge and powerful and i hope my characters is like that." said by Chern 67
Link: Website
http://twitter.com/Chern67
Facebook
http://facebook.com/chern91
3
Graffiti Artist: Acit/Abdulrashade
About Him:
>One of the Eightyfourcube collective members.
>Graphic designer, painter and graffiti artist.
>2003, started in digital art (vector art especially) on 2003 and begin doing graffiti on 2007 and painting on 2008.
>his graffiti is not about vandal, it is about beauty in legal and illegal.
Title of Graffiti: "My concrete jungle"
Style and Description: Acit was try to develop his own style, to avoid the influences of the overseas graffiti styles.
He is doing the graffiti with mixing the asian style, like floral, batik, nusantara and curving and wavy stroke etc...
Link: Website
http://www.facebook.com/pages/abdulrashade
http://www.spacemaggot.deviantart.com
http://abdulrashade.tumblr.com/
http://www.eightyfourcube.com
Email
buzz@abdulrashade.com
Facebook
facebook.com/abdulrashade
4
Graffiti Artist: Khairy Ishak
About Him:
>Myow From SG been writing since 2001.
>Hated dogs.
>Graffiti is yoga to him.
>Sky the limit.
>Liked to doodle.
Title of Graffiti: "WYOW" (as in meow)
Style and Description:
>Wildstyle
Link: -
5
Graffiti Artist: Reyna
About Her:
>A writer from Brunei.
>Graffiti, like any visual arts is a form of expression and a way to deliver a message whether it may be something personal or social.
>Love graffiti because it makes her feel free.
>Not confined to canvases or art galleries; her art is meant for everybody whether they like it or not.
Title of Graffiti: - ("The traditional fundementals of graffiti is basically to write your name everywhere and make yourself known." said by Reyna)
Style and Description:
> She did not really have a set theme for her piece but bright colours and geometrical shapes have always been quite her trademark.
Link: Facebook
facebook.com/mzaharaa
6
Graffiti Artist: Muhammad Aqmal b Tapsir (Critic Zerosix)
About Him:
>From Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia.
>Just finished Diploma in Culinary Art at Unirazak (Unitar).
>Graffiti is his hobby and passion. He can express anything by doing graffiti, about love, hate, peace...
>Sometime he used word or character to describe his graffiti and
different types of color to describe the message that he want to send to the community.
Title of Graffiti: "Critic 06" (his tagname)
Style and Description:
>Before he started to do graffiti, a lot of people talent in doing graffiti criticized on him.
The word of "Critic" inspired him to produce a better and quality graffiti.
"06" is the year he started to do graffiti.
>Wildstyle.
>Used bright color to show Kuala Lumpur as the fun and excitement place of writing graffiti on the wall.
Link: Website
http://www.critic06.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/critic_06
7
Graffiti Artist: Cz Chooi
About Him:
>A Malacca based graphic designer and graffiti artist.
>Wrote for a crew called PhiberWryte Connects (PWC).
>Graffiti is his hobby. The more he painted, he get more idea.
>Ideas make him excited to explore more about graffiti and sharpen up his skill.
Title of Graffiti: "D-O-M-E-R"
Style and Description:
>Does not have any specific meaning.
>He picked 5 letters out of 26 alphabet randomly. It is a basic lettering.
He focused on the letter/alphabet structure and the color combination is completely freestyle.
>For him, graffiti is about typography, created the composition, flow, negative space, balance etc.
So his style is to create a positive and artistic piece instead of the negativity things.
Link: Facebook
facebook.com/Domerpwc
8/9. Escape and Syam is partner for doing graffiti.
Graffiti Artist: Mohd Zaki b. Nordin (Escape)
About Him:
> A Malaysian visual artist and a graphic designer who started his career in street art.
>What is "Escape"?
Escape had been rebranded since January 9, 2010 from the former tagname, "Erkz". Since then, he had carry this name in street art and furthering "Escape" as the brand name for his product. The key factor of his art has been cycling around numerous sides of design from street art, installations, graphic design, custom products and digitalization into many kinds of medium without the stick boundaries of limitation. "Escape" is an orientation that characterises the thinking of a person, which defined same as an ideology to the artist's thought.
>For him, graffiti is related to his tagname, which is an escape for me.
Link: Email
escape_art@live.com
Facebook
facebook.com/escapeart
Graffiti Artist: Syam
About Him:
>21 years old, Software Engineering student.
>Originated from Ipoh, and also known as "Schizo"
>Graffiti is expression of an individual in a form of art, done on the wall.
Link: Email
syam_278@hotmail.com
Title of Graffiti: - (2minutes discussion and straight away to do the graffiti.)
Style and Description:
>For Escape, he loves doing faces expression and conception art such as 3 dimensional graffiti.
He paints creepy and aggressive stuff.
>For Syam, the graffiti letter he painted is semi-wildstyle.
10
Graffiti Artist: Kenji Chai
About Him:
>Freelance artist
>Illustrator
>Designer
>Graffiti artist
>Street artist
>Toy designer
>Black Fryday (Art director)
Title of Graffiti:
Style and description:
Link: Email
black.fryday@gmail.com
