" Cum is a street art collective of three people based in Ghent , Belgium , displaying their art on and off the streets . After one of them did a stencil of a pin-up girl , they came up with the whole “erotic street entertainment” idea . "
" Blek Le Rat , if you don’t know him yet , is the founding father of the whole Street Art scene in the world . A first trip to New York City in 1971 and the discovery of graffitis in the streets had the youg parisian went nuts . Ten years later , in 1981 , Blek started using (for the first time for artistic purpose) stencils . More than 25 years serving Art in the streets makes him a major influence for all street art artists (”Every time I think I’ve painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well , only twenty years earlier …” - Banksy) ."
" Tim Tsui , along with Michael Lau , is one of the precursors of the Designer Toy movement , coming from Hong-Kong . He has been working as a Graphic and Multimedia Producer for more than 11 years . In early 2002 , he started developing a strong interest creating action figures . His debut work was called “Da Team Bronx“ . The name comes from his ever growing appreciation for Hip-Hop music , graffiti and street culture . Out of his imagination came the Dape (a mutant , graffiti artist ape) which is , today , one of the most recognized toy icon. "
" Mark “Huck” Gee moved to San Francisco in the early 90’s pursuing the venerable life of a b-boy . Maintaining day jobs that expanded his artistic vocabulary ; he spent his nights testing his skills , and his weekends searching for inspiration . Graphic design by day , graffiti by night , studying Miyamoto Musashi on the weekends . He later culled his skills as an illustrator , allowing him to explore more commercial art styles and delve into the alluring world of Japanese pop art .
Huck recently released several toys through Kidrobot ..."
"Based in Albania (CA) (where he has better to accessibility to his global empire) , Attaboy is co-founder of Hi-Fructose Magazine with his lady love , the artist Annie Owens and has a multitude of ongoing toy label collaborations covering brands from Rock America to Star Wars . Do we even need to mention his latest grammatical creation , AXTRX ? Of course , we do ! The embodiment of the Asterisk (*) provides another personal glimpse into Attaboy’s day-to-day undertakings and offers a vinyl face for punctuation precision !
" D*Face is a London-based sculptor and stencil artist , who uses London as his own personal gallery . He sticks , pastes and draws on any wall or space he finds . An associate of Banksy’s , he’s also hung legitimately in Santa’s Ghetto and recently had his own solo exhibition at the Stolen Space gallery in East London’s fashionable East London . "
" For more than ten years , Augustine Kofie , A.K.A. Kofie One (Draftsmen) , has been collecting various vintage objects , transforming them and working on them to offer them a new life , with the incredible aesthetic of the artist ! "
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