It's a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups Book Review

*It's a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups book is the latest street art book release from Ollystudios and publishers Laurence King.

Olly Studios in London
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Ollystudios are a London based creative studio that has previously designed street artists monographs for a number of Lazarides Gallery artists such as Paul Insect, JR, David Choe, and Vhils.

Ollystudio has also authored and designed two other street art-related books, The Street Art Stencil Book and Stencil Republic both publications were also released with UK publishers Laurence King.

It's a Stick-Up Book
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It's no surprise that this new street art publication "It's a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups" book has been beautifully designed by Ollystudios.

From the Paul Insect baby head stickers stuck on the front cover to the oversized dimensions of the book, the lovely paper stock it's been printed on, as well as the layout design for the spreads, all combined to make for a great book that stands out over some other recent releases and a publication you will definitely want on your bookshelf.

What's inside the book- content-wise they showcase the work of 20 street artists from across the globe who work predominantly with paste-ups and posters, artists such as street artists Paul Insect, WK Interact, A.CE London, Dain, Rae, Kid Acne, EMA, Dale Grimshaw, and Pablo Delgado to name a few.

It's a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups Book Review

Writer Margherita Dessanay has written the book introduction as well as profiles for each of the featured street artists in which we get to read about their experiences of working outdoors in the street as well as some of their working processes in their studios.

Each street artist profile is also accompanied by a selection of photography showing their works in the streets of cities across the globe.

As an added bonus the book comes complete with 20 fold-out posters/paste-up's, one from each of the featured artist which you can choose to tear out if you wish and try your hand at pasting some work up yourself (a wheat paste recipe is also included in the book) or you might choose to frame up some of the posters and redecorate your walls inside.

The fold-out pages in the book are all perforated so they can easily be removed. Some of the street art paste-ups such as the Kid Acne Stabby Woman have been laser cut so they can be popped out of the book easily.

We also like the idea of cutting out the included miniature images by Mexican Street artist Pablo Delgado on his fold-out poster and pasting them around our apartment!

London street artist A.CE London's spread in the book.

Buy the Book Online
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The It's a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups book is currently on sale online here on Amazon and is another welcome addition to the Hookedblog bookshelf and walls!

The work of New York-based street artist Dain pictured in the above spread.

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