Aloha From Singapore!: All about KAWS!

Brian Donnelly whom also known as kaws, is a former graffiti artist, painter and designer. I'm very sure people who likes streets label will know who is he. So i did some research on him, on how did he start all these.

Q:Where did your signature “X” come from?

A:Before I got into painting over ads, I was just working traditional graffiti. And that kind of led me into painting over billboards. So, in 1993, I was still doing letter stuff, but I just started incorporating it into ads. I’d stand there painting while cars went by.

Q:How did you get involved in graffiti?

A:It was just all around. It’s sort of, you know, if you have an art interest. … Actually, it’s great for a young kid who’s just interested in being creative, because you meet other kids who have the same interests. It’s like you play soccer. You meet kids that play soccer, and you just come out of the woodwork when you get involved. I started painting other imagery like the skull and crossbones and when I got into breaking into the phone booths and the bus shelters, and I started using that imagery and kind of let the lettering fall out. I started to think about it almost like competing with the advertisers for space. That’s how I saw graffiti; I mean it was the parallels that were really kind of funny. The point is to make work that would last on the streets and almost just be there, but not. You know? Maybe someone doesn’t even stop but later is like, “What was that? Weird ad.”

Information credit to NYTIMES I just copy and pasted some interesting facts for more detail u can click at the NYTIMES. =)

And there's also some quotes from him :

"My first interest in graffitti came when I was in grammar school, around '87 or '88 I was about twelve years old. I did not know much about writing, I just knew that I liked to write my name everywhere I could in my neighborhood." - KAWS

"It's just a combination of letters I liked. And when your whole art's based on the lettering you choose, you kinda figure out what ones work together. I just liked the shapes of the k, a, w, s. It has no meaning." - KAWS

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This is the KAWS BOOK FURTHER LOOK that my brother brought from M.A.D Gallery at Mandarin Gallery.

MAD Museum of Art & Design
333A Orchard Road
#03-01 Mandarin Gallery
Singapore 238897

Opening Hours:
11:00 am to 9:00 pm Daily

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I snap some picture of it only =X

Above picture was kaws earlier graffiti work.

And in mid 90s kaws get the ideal of painting over advertisements in bus shelters and phone booth which blended to look like part of the original ads.