DONDI : style master general

This is a photo taken by Martha Cooper of the artist Dondi White painting a whole car in the New York subway yard 1980. A whole car is a subway car that is painted end-to-end, top to bottom. Dondi was one of the first “graffiti” artists to master a clean typographic style.

I chose this photograph to show the scale of the letters on the subway car. In this photo we only see a part of the “n” and the “D” of a whole car that spelled out Dondi . Martha Cooper photographed DONDI while he was painting this whole car illegally in the subway yard.

I find that the graffiti movement in 1970’s and 80’s New York” is often overlooked as an artistic movement that changed the way typography and lettering is used. There are now thousands of graffiti artists/writers in almost every country around the world.

For more info on Dondi



- The OCAD Library has the book “DONDI : style master general”

- http://www.dondiciakings.com/New_Folder/dondiciakings.htm