Graffiti Planet 2 - Book Release | Hookedblog - Street Art from London and beyond

Good start to the week, this little gem just arrived. It's the follow-up to Graffiti Planet and this second volume follows on where the first finished - showcasing more of the best Graffiti from around the globe.

Graffiti Planet 2 Book

I really like the size format of this graffiti book, slightly bigger than the London Street Art books which felt like postcard books, despite the small format feels more like a proper book.

The book has been compiled and introduced by KET. For those of you out there not familiar with New York-based KET, he is a world-renowned graff artist, writer, lecturer, and graffiti historian. He founded and published the urban lifestyle magazine, Stress, and launched the world's first hip-hop journal.

The book is jam-packed with some fantastic pictures KET has selected. On a UK tip, there are pieces from Aroe, London's Skore & Merc, Essex-based Frame, Crack 15 and Seize, and Newcastle's Funk and Kron. Our good friend Elph, representing Scotland is also featured.

Overall a well-presented book with some fantastic pictures and all for just under a tenner, I would definitely recommend getting a copy. The only one small thing that bugged me about the book was the inclusion of some Street Art pieces.

To me, this is a graffiti book, not sure if it was the publisher that pushed them to make the book appeal to a wider market or if KET selected them. I just felt they were not needed and didn't really fit in with the rest of the work. The two pieces you will see when you get a copy are the Banksy Flowers Stencil piece in East London and a wall of paste-ups by Sephard Fairey in Miami both of which I felt were outta place. But like I said only a small issue I had and I wouldn't let it stop you from buying this great book.