The International Street Art and Graffiti Festival NAMES was the first event of this kind in the Czech Republic. 60 artists who gathered in Prague at the end of August had the chance to create their pieces in legal urban sites. The independent multicultural venue Trafačka and its immediate surroundings located in the district of Vysočany became the heart of the festival that hosted the accompanying exhibition running through the mid October. The individual pieces created during the festival together with fragments from various NAMES events that took place all over Prague and in the Aero cinema are captured with several accompanying texts in a two-hundred-page illustrated catalogue featuring a film document. The book containing 264 colour images is primarily a testimony of the past event as well as the archive of the extraordinary works of artists from all over the world.

NAMES

Published by: Trafačka Civic Association
Printed by: T.A. Print
Number of copies: 1000 ks
Format: 230x280 mm | Hard cover
Number of illustrations: 264
Year:Praha 2008
ISBN: 978-80-254-3191-7
Price: 650,- CZK (including rebate)
Info: www.namesfest.net

Book titled NAMES will be available beginning December 17th in selected bookstores and gallery shops. For more information see www.namesfest.net .

Concept: Jan Kaláb, Michal Škapa, Klára Vomáčková
Texts: Jan Kaláb, Tobias Barenthin Lindblad, Radek Wohlmuth, Kateřina Černá
Editors: Klára Vomáčková, Blanka Čermáková
Typography, typesetting and image layout: Michal Škapa
Translation: Linda Kropáčková, David Moss, Natálie Šeborová, Michal Brnušák, Daniel Vašák
Editorial team: Blanka Jiráčková, Olga Václavková, Blanka Čermáková
Photographers: Ondřej Besperát, Lukáš Žentel, Matěj Svoboda and the artists
Concept in cooperation with Adam Krampera, Martin Levý, Marcela Straková, Đuke

Artists:

AKIM (DE), APA (SWE / www.akayism.org), ASH ( www.victorash.net), BIOR (CZ), BLU (IT / www.blublu.org), BRAD DOWNEY (US / www.braddowney.com), CREAM (DE), EPOS (CZ), FSHIZZ (CZ / www.myspace.com/fschizzz), GATOE (CZ), GENO (CZ), HITOTZUKI (JAP / www.hitotzuki.com), HONET (FR / http://hnteuropa.free.fr), CHEET (CZ), INCUBUS PROJECT (RU / www.incubusproject.com), JANA (BR / www.janajoana.com.br), JOE 83 (AU / www.fotolog.com/joe83), KERAMIK (AU / www.thomasmock.com), KR (US / www.krink.com), LICE (CZ), LOOMIT (DE / www.loomit.de), M-CITY (PL / www.m-city.org), MARIE (CZ), MASKER (CZ / www.masker1.net), MIND (CZ), MODE2 (UK / www.mode2.org), PASTA (CZ / www.cliquemag.cz/pasta), PHOE (CZ), PIKE & NUG (SWE), POINT (CZ / www.onepoint.cz), REBEL INK (IT / www.fatbombers.com), ROBOT X. 8203 (CZ), 333 SHEME (RU), STAK (FR / www.olivierkostathefaine.com), STYLE KONSTRUKTOR (RU / www.stylekonstruktor.com), SUPER A (NL), SWOON (US), TAGTOOL (www.tagtool.org), TEVE (CZ), TRON (CZ), UDO KRAFT (CZ / www.udokraft.cz), VIAGRAFIK (DE / www.vgrfk.com), VITCHE (BR / www.vitche.com.br), XDOG (CZ), ZASD (DE / www.thomasbratzke.com), ZBIOK (PL / www.zbkool.com), ZEDZ (NL / www.zedz.org), ZEZÃO (BR / www.lost.art.br/zezao.htm), ZIPPER (CZ)