Graffiti is a form of rebellious art that allows people to express themselves through colour and print. I've been finding some great work in my local area around Canberra, ACT and something that has been running through my mind this week is; are there certain rules or guidelines to doing graffiti? After asking a few people I still couldn't come up with an answer so I jumped on line and found this; Places, People, Things NEVER to work with: 1 . Autos or Bikes – these are personal, everyone hates when their car is messed with. 2 . Windows – windows are for looking through, not at. Unless you’ve got permission. 3 . Clothing – unless it’s for comedy. 4 . Trees – when you staple a tree, you injure the tree. It will die faster because of you. Bad. 5 . Phones or computers – these are also personal, off limits. 6 . Merchandise – do not put your message on a bag of chips unless the message is about chips or made to look like a label for a bag of chips. This is where advertisers work, and on the whole, it’s on the way out – people’ve become numb. 7 . Furniture (indoor or outdoor) – If someone has to move your message to sit down and relax, they’ll be mad, and not only that, they might get so mad as to just sit on it, then fart. 8 . On the ground. 9 . Places where the medium (your paper or sticker paper or whatever else you’re using) will end up trash, polluting the world within a day. Obviously EVER should be your goal here, but if you put a piece of paper outside a building in Minnesota, it’s going to get soggy, it’s going to fall to the ground, a duck is going to eat it and die. 10 . Personal houses, homes, houses of worship. Places where your message SHOULD go to be most effective: 1 . In the front of newspaper stands. 2 . On desks. 3 . On tables. 4 . On countertops. 5 . In backpacks (of drunk people where available.) 6 . On posts and poles of all kinds (provided they aren’t still alive.) Above: A pole in view of the Eiffel Tower. Double whammy! Also you’ll see at least another qualifier soon (#16) 7 . Construction-site walls. This also covers basically anything around a construction site, something that won’t be around forever, something that is in-place for the time being – including places where a window has been broken out and is covered by a board. 8 . Hidden walls, or in the case above, outdoor hallways. 9 . Alleyways. 10 . Places of advertising (not buildings, I mean stacks of paper, billboards, signs, busstops), unless they’re really amazing. I know a sewing store up on the NE side of town that has their own hand-made 3D rocket as an OPEN sign. Do not fuck with that. 11 . Electrical boxes (big, green, gray, ugly, open, amazing). 12 . Down by the train tracks *but BE CAREFUL there’s crazies down there. 13 . Dirty bathroom stalls that already have lots of writing. 14 . Walls backstage at music venues. 15 . The backs of signs (STOP, YEILD, LEFT TURN) 16 . Places identified as workable by other like-minded individuals. Even the fronts of signs can become alright to stick a sticker on, provided enough other people have already rendered it unrecognisable. 17 . On the other hand, if you must paste somewhere where it wouldn’t normally be OK, paste it somewhere noone can see – for example, if you’re at the top of the Eiffel tower, put your sticker under the handrail. True story. Stephen J. Powers wrote a book called 'The art of getting over' and all of the above rules were written by him. I'm sure there are plenty more out there but this is a good start. Source: http://worldfamousdesignjunkies.com/graffiti/world-famous-design-junkies-official-rules-of-graffiti/
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