Lodown. Graphic Engineering [Taschenbuch]

Skateboarding, graffiti, and hip-hop music compose youth cultures tripartite soul. Once sacred to inner-city kids, this religion has spread to the suburbs and small towns of America and Europe. For this visual atlas, Marecki has selected photos, montages, illustrations, and a few articles from Berlins Lodown magazineof which he is publisher and art directorthat capture the color, speed, and glee of those controversial thirds. Contributing writer Anderas Hesse calls the collected images Post-Pop-Pre-Shrink-Art. Like Warhol with his Marilyns, graphic artist Shepard Fairey uses the late pro wrestler Andre the Giants likeness in an international poster campaign; kids turn boredom into gravity-defying tricks on skateboardsearning fame that lasts closer to 15 seconds. Arty or not, this title will not lessen the status quos prejudice against the skate-spray-can-hip-hop movement (one montage features naked women with grotesquely large breasts). Public libraries should first purchase a history that explains the movements ideasNelson Georges Hip Hop America (LJ 9/15/98) or Jeff Ferrells Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality (Northeastern Univ., 1996). Recommended for large graphic arts collections only.Heather McCormack, Library Journal
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Wie keine andere Jugendkultur beeinflussen die Stilistiken der Skate-, Snowboard- und HipHop-Szene die Jugendlichen überall auf dem Globus. Daraus entstehende Trends dokumentieren ihre Aktualität und beeinflussen Musik, Mode und Werbewelt. Dieses Buch zeigt Mode, Designs, Drum'n Bass, Hip Hop, Sex and Crime. Und dass der Spaß dabei nicht zu kurz kommt, kann garantiert werden.

This visual atlas brings together the creative forces behind the complete Skate- Snow- and Surfboard-scene. With dynamic action photography and overkill imagery, the book documents the fashion and design, the music of drum 'n' bass and hip-hop, the humour, the sex and vibes of this scene at play. Artists, labels and individuals involved in the most innovative aspects of this urban subculture are presented in this publication.

Bemerkungen zu LODOWN - graphic engineering
Wie keine andere Jugendkultur beeinflussen die Stilistiken der Skate-, Snowboard- und HipHop-Szene die Jugendlichen überall auf dem Globus. Herausgeber und Chefdesigner Marok stellt Künstler, Macher und Labels anhand ihrer wichtigsten Projekte und mit Selbstverständnis der Szene vor. Die vibrierenden Fotos in Lodown spiegeln ein Lebensgefühl wider, das von Mode, (Grafik-)Designs, Drum'n'Bass, HipHop, Sex and Crime, Grafittis u.v.m. geprägt ist.