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Banksy: Graffiti Artist
Anthony Driver

Banksy

Banksy is an English based graffiti artist, political activist, and film director whose identity is unknown. He is most known for is stencil graffiti which is when an artist uses an outline to produce an image that is easily reproduced. Most people would say that his style is similar to Blek le Rat aka the father of stencil graffiti. Banksy says he was inspired by an artist by the name of 3D. An artist who became one of the founding members of Massive Attack. He started as a freehand artist and said he change to stenciling because he saw how much easier and faster he could do his art work.

He has never has sold any of his artwork even though some people were trying to sell his artwork on ebay and where successful. Most of his artwork has a message about the society he lives in and the way he perceived it. One of his first interviews was with an animal activist because his early artwork was mainly included animals. He went on to do
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He even donates his time and money to these issues.he even started obey to donate more money to the issues he hand picked. He belives in selling his designe and donating 100% of the money to charity.

David Carson

David Carson Is an American visual architect, craftsmanship chief and surfer. He is best known for his inventive magazine plan, and use of trial typography. He was the craftsmanship chief for the magazine Ray Gun, in which he utilized a great part of the typographic and format style for which he is known. Specifically, his generally imitated tasteful characterized the supposed "grunge typography" period. David Carson has won over 230 Awards for his work in graphic design, photography, advertising and branding. David Carson continues to be the worlds most dictintive typographic voices.

He was the first to use different types of font and differnt sizes. He revolutionalized the way we type and view

Jonathan

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