Team

Anaroop is an Artist who believes in exploring and experimenting new and different style in art and design.

His name is CreepyMouse because the graffiti writer is just like a mouse, he always appears in the midnight. And the graffiti give Taiwanese feels creepy.

After ten years as a digital art engineer in the motion picture FX industry, Damien “Dee” Coureau discovered in Calligraffiti what the computer could not offer: the beauty of spontaneity. Six years of practice gave his strokes a combination of zen and strength, catching the eye by their rigour and simplicity.

Illustrating the struggle of those qualities, the themes he addresses are often controversial or cynical, and always a pleasure.

Dimitris Valtas is a calligraphy artist from Greece, born in 1984 and works as a freelancer. He initially started from classic calligraphy but soon after he cultivated a more modern and abstract approach which was featured in commercial advertising and worldwide publications in calligraphy and graphic design books.

EL Seed is a ‘calligraffiti’ artist, a blend of the historic art of Arabic calligraphy and of graffiti, mixing street culture from Paris and Arabic history to poetic effect. Born to Tunisian parents in the suburbs of Paris, eL Seed spent his formative years juggling different cultures, languages,  and  identities.  Today eL Seed’s pieces have developed out  of  two worlds colliding, with these  two cultures clashing and blending into one another, to form a new identity, a unique mark and a distinctive style.

EL Seed  uses  intricate  composition  in  his  work  to  call not only on the words and their meaning, but also on their movement, which ultimately lures the viewer into a different state of mind. Working primarily with subjects that seem contradictory, eL Seed’s art reflects the reality of mankind and the world we live in today.

GhalamDAR (“the writer” in Farsi) is an emerging artist, working primarily as a graffiti artist since 2006 (born 1994, Tehran, Iran).

In the beginning as a youngster he wanted to add color to his gray colored hometown, Tehran, and to break the habit and expectancy of watching the same walls he passes by every day by practicing and experiencing variety of graffiti styles. He also cooperated with other Iranian graffiti writers such as Elf crew – between the first emerging graffiti crews in the Middle East – and painted a huge ton of big walls around Tehran.

As Iranian society has never truly experienced a Hip-hop sub-culture he believes his roots lie somewhere else. Approximately parallel with the 80s graffiti and Hip-hop of America there ware radical social streams using graffiti as a media for bringing the Iranian revolution of 1979 up.

GhalamDAR thinks of his roots and the relationship between his artwork and the vandalism of the revolution – and such other Iranian social or artistic streams – and how they influence each other. For gaining his own art expression, GhalamDAR tended to the Saqqakhaneh movement of the 1960s and 1970s, He uses calligraphy, Miniature painting (Negar-gari), folk objects, and Shi’i iconography as parts of his subject inspirations. He avoids the strict rules and preparation rituals of the craft in favor of abstraction. Saqqakhaneh artists directly inspired GhalamDAR to challenge the dominant pictorial material of Iranian street art aiming for developing an aesthetic with particular Iranian markers.

While GhalamDAR’s has undoubtedly been influenced by traditional calligraphic practice, his works share an affinity with the interlocking aesthetic of “wild style” graffiti and traditional calligraphy which demonstrate an amalgamation of these two cultures. Like the letterist works of the Saqqakhaneh artists, GhalamDAR’s text-based pieces have emphasized the pictorial form of Perso-Arabic script over the literary content of traditional calligraphic practice. Commonly, GhalamDAR creates by deconstructing the Iranian folklore stories, legends, talismans,superstitions and generally Iranian culture and traditions. He takes a critical look at the Iranian contemporary identity particularly with post-modern philosophy and his art is a personal investigation through the Iranian art and history.

Born in 1990 in Tunis.
At a young age he was attracted to poetry, setting poems on paper where he expresses his love of humanity, respect and celebrates the spirit of tolerance. Then, during his studies graphic designer, he discovered the fascinating world of typography and the opportunities it provides for the creation and the visual composition of a work. Therefore, he decided to combine the expression of personal feelings, calligraphy and geometric shapes deliver bold compositions on various media, first wall and the canvas that tames quickly.
He was remarkable during many projects, for the elegance of his work and the originality of his compositions that show an unusual sensitivity and seduce the public. Inside harmoniously filled circles, a trained eye will decode short poems written spontaneously, mixing his roots and Arabic calligraphy spirit with Latin characters. For others, it will be the fineness of the line and the agreement text and colors used to draw the eye.
With Inkman, a restless artist in the sense of artist perpetually in research, Calligraffiti becomes a universal language, inviting beauty and understandable by all as evidenced by the success encountered at each of his interventions abroad in the Middle East and Europe.

Jan Koke was born in Hamburg, raised in Kiel and is now back in Hamburg. In the year 1994 he first came in contact with graffiti / lettering. 2006 he started an education as a layouter, typesetter and printer. That was the time he learned about typography, taught by his master, an old school typesetter. After that he studied communication design in Hamburg to expand his knowledge about the anatomy of letters. In his studies he designed fonts, logotypes and began to work on his calligraphy skills and calligraffiti styles.

Out off these different influences, from all kinds of letters he creates something new, by mixing styles, tools and philosophies.

JASPER6000 is a visual artist with an expertise in graphic design, illustration and lettering.
Currently based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Born in 1977, Jonas Bournat a.k.a. SUN 7 lives and works in Paris.
SUN7 is obviously a child of the amalgamation of words and images, poetry and colour, art and the streets. In the early 1990s, he discovered New York tag culture. Spray can in hand, he took on the skin of walls in Paris and New York, and moved to performances and installations, not only in Paris, Lyon and Marseille, but also in Shanghai, Hong-Kong and Djakarta.

He then started using canvases, signs and metal plaques. His register became permeated by multiple new influences : action painting, Arabic calligraphy,Latino tattoos, but words and calligraphy remained dominant – a mesh of words, a lace of letters, most often indecipherables but which when combined made portraits and self-portraits. Obvious portaits and coded texts created a subtle play of appearance/disappearance, in which enverything related to calligraphy, glyphs and ideograms became as unreal as can be, nurturing a deep sense of interest and mystery.

Clément, also known as Kens, grew up in the suburbs of Paris, France.
He has been drawing since his early childhood throughout his whole life. He studied in a school of Art and Graphic Design.
In parallel, Clément has developed both collective and personal artistic projects all over France.
From Graffiti movement to painting, drawing, and abstract calligraphy, he composes with his lines and sensibility.

Kirill Plotnikov is a young and promising calligraphy artist from Ekaterinburg, Russia who works predominantly in the medium of calligraphy, calligraffiti, lettering and graphic design.
Kirill is self-taught artist, he has no any artistic education, but this is compensated by very hard work and sense of purpose, so the process of improving the skills and development of style never stops.
During the last year of active work Kirill has achieved significant results. Earlier this year, he took a part in the creation of the book Typism Book Two, which was prepared for the Australian type conference called Typism.
In calligraphy Kirill prefers dark, filthy, grungy and raw style, which may seem chaotic on the first sight, but there is always a certain order in his works and each stroke has its own function and meaning.

Mayur Munj is engineer by profession. He has been doing Calligraphy since 2007, so far participated in National level exhibition in India, sold couple of paintings to UK based artist for his private collection assisted Master Calligrapher to his workshops and other activities and much more to follow … He believes in paintings with strong base of lettering or the basic forms of lettering. With the combinations of textures, layers , various scripts , forms and layouts there are infinite possibilities of the compositions. Adopting the contemporary styles and fusing them with basic forms is what strengthens the meaning of calligraphic paintings.

Misha No – freelance designer /art director from Saint-Petersburg now living in Phuket and traveling through Asia with my family. Have a huge experience in web design works ( about 10 years ). Father. Founder of letterforms.ru

He began “서예 Seo-ye”(Korean calligraphy) in a full scale at the age of eighteen. From that time, he was completely fascinated by calligraphy. Fortunately, the university he had been through, has a calligraphy club, so he joined the club without hesitation. Through this club he could interact with many people and sometimes opened a calligraphy exhibition. He organized “Seo-yeon Federation” and served as the President. This federation is a group of calligraphy clubs from different universities. It was composed of more than twenty calligraphy clubs.

In fact, he has been painting before he started calligraphy. His drawings are as much as good as his calligraphy pieces. He gets his inspiration from various things when he draws a picture or make a calligraphy.

He studied creative writing and majored in Literature. He also writes novels and poetry in his own native language sometimes. He is a nature lover, especially animals like panda because panda can be a perfect representation of colors, like black and white.

He is a member of the non-profit artists group “Urban strikers”, and writes a column about calligraphy in the magazine.

He hates the predetermined frame.
He always wanted to strive not to distinguish genres, he wants to break stereotypes and overpass limits.

Mr. Zé (Félix Rodríguez Fernández)
Born in Valladolid, Spain, in 1978.
Creative Director, calligrapher, illustrator, international artist and design teacher.
Co-Founder of the graphic design and comm. studio “PobrelaVaca CreativeWork”, in 2002 with Ana Mª Hernández.
8 design awards as Creative Director.
3rd Place on the International Collage Contest. 2015.
Design teacher on the Design School ESI.
Selected artist by Behance Portfolio Reviews. 2014
Selected artist for the Banksy film (exit through the gift shop) pre-opening in Madrid.
International collage and calligraphy artist, selected by Kolaj Magazine (Canada), Moloko+ (Russia), Clone, Crann (Argentina), Verbo (Argentina), SModa. Latest exhibitions: Serendipia (Madrid), Boards and Art (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Collagerie (London)…
Selected artist for the National Library exhibition of Calligraphy, Madrid 2015.

Mr.Kams is a graffiti writer/calligraphy artist from Madrid, Spain. He has been active in the graffiti scene since the early 90’s having painted all over Europe and some places in Asia. He got involved with calligraphy at the end of 2009 and have been deep into it ever since. At the moment he works as a freelance calligraphy and lettering artist and teach workshops occasionally. As he keeps learning the craft of calligraphy himself he enjoys experimenting with it and mixing it with his graffiti works.

Nedda Kubba, Calligraffiti artist from Germany with Iraqi origin.

After doing an apprenticeship in Glas Grafting for 3 years and afterwards studying and graduating in Communication Design (Graphic Design/Businessdesign/Designmanagement) at Darmstadt University/Germany, she worked as an Businessdesigner, IT Cosultant, Project Manager, IT Webshop Frontend Developer, Project Leader in Online Marketing, with many well known companies like for example BMW, MINI, Ogilvy and so on.

Since 2014 Nedda founded “FENCIL- Design Agency” and since 2015 she is as well CEO & Founder of “dtc – Design Thinking Coaching”.

Nedda was always fascinated of the arabic traditional calligraphy, geometric shapes and forms, as well she loved typography and lettering during her studies at University.

In 2015 Nedda started with passion to work on arabic Calligraffiti.

Since that time she became addicted to it.

Modern calligrapher from Paris, Obese brings the wide in “wide tip marker”.

Pash Pollock aka The Pash, is a tattoo artist with a strong fetish for calligraphy and stand up comedy. His fascination with lettering dates a few years back, when he was a fresh tattooer in a small street shop, and he got fed up with tattooing “fonts” out of a website because if looked and felt inhuman and boring. Naturally, his first sources of inspiration were tattooers like Big meas, Bj betts, Anrijs straume, Norm and many others. So he ordered books and dvds and started to practice the art, slowly improving and evolving his own style and making people open up to it, rather then mechanically choosing fonts from a screen, and thus becoming the only tattooer in israel who does hand style lettering. Other then that, he’s a music producer for video games and media such as Dark Orbit and UFC.

Patrick lives and works in Munich (GER) as artist and designer. He has been involved in the art of writing for more than 20 years, and his works have been displayed in various cities, including Buenos Aires, New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Munich.

Handwriting and lettering is his passion. Patrick did his first graffiti in the age of 15, at university he discovered his passion for calligraphy. His works reflect his roots and inspiration: Layer after layer Graffiti, Tags, Calligraphy, Posters, Stickers overlay each other. Patrick Hartl creates his own wall, indepentend of the material he works with. Patrick connects old craftsmanship with modern streetstyle – with a fantastic result.

Modern calligraphy artist with many years of experience in street-art.

He combines work on different design projects with many exhibitions and performances, as well as workshops and street-art festivals. He creates some big scale Calligraffiti compositions within an urban environment and interior, and he’s always trying to experiment with forms and volumes of the typography.

Rayna was born and raised in Chicago, USA and comes from a Taiwanese heritage. Since Mandarin is not her first language, Rayna just recently picked up calligraphy as a means to practice her heritage’s written language. A passion for Chinese calligraphy immediately grew along with a curiosity for other calligraphy forms. She then auspiciously discovered Calligraffiti and has been incorporating the style into her Chinese calligraphy.

For Said Dokins calligraphy and graffiti are intermediate practices of inscription and trace, of twisting symbolic orders and of political enunciation. Dokins lives and works in Mexico City. His cultural practice takes on contemporary art production, research and cultural management. He has put on curatorial projects related to urban arts and a number of political issues happening in his country. Among other awards, is the winner of the Iberoamerican Contemporary Art Creation Prize, Cortes de Cadiz, Juan Luis Vasallo 2015 in Cadiz, Spain. His work as an artist has been shown nationally and internationally in countries as Spain, Germany, Holland, Belgium, United Kingdom, Argentine, Chile, Brazil, El Salvador, Peru and others. Dokins takes up the economy of medieval calligraphy, the energy and expressiveness of japanese calligraphy, besides creating a poetic based on pre-phonetic writing. For Dokins every experience is a trace, a psychic impression that creates a texture in our symbolic universe. In that sense, calligraphy and graffiti aren’t just on paper and ink, on the walls and spray, but on every event of our existence.

• Born 1984, raised in Kloster Eberbach/Germany
• 1998 tentative steps in Graffiti
• 2007 tentative steps in Calligraffiti
• 2008 graduation apprenticeship as digital media designer
• Since 2011 known as SCHRIFTZUG

Captivated by the graffiti wave at the start of the 90s, Tarek discovers a way of expressing himself freely. At 14 years old, a can in hand, he dives into this art form that will never leave his side. Whilst exploring this craft he turns to calligraphy, which he considers an inherent continuity to his passion for lettering. The letterforms he paints talk, and in turn become a “talked about” area. His playground includes public areas, inner city murals, hotels, restaurants, nightclubs … Words from anyone and everyone, words here are meant to be seen and captivating. Tarek explores his own, anti-conformist and original “semantic fuzzing”. His quill has recently brushed the walls of hip places such as the Mama Shelter Hotels, imagined by the TRIGANO family and Philipe STARCK.

Born in Bialystok, Poland in 1984.
Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland

Industrial designer, illustrator and lettering artist mixing tradition with modernity. The award-winning author in fields of Industrial Design, Visual Communication, Poster Art and calligraphy.
Member of ATAK crew

Warios is a graffiti artist from Rome, Italy.

He started to do graffiti at the beginning of 2000. His playground was the streets of the city, with a big passion for tags and wild style. For many years he was considered one of the most innovative graffiti artist in the “eternal city”.
He works as a graphic designer, with a focus on Calligraffiti and typography.