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JOB:04-24941 Title:RP-Inside the World of Board Graphics
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The 24-year-old Russian graffiti artist and graphic
designer known as Aske has successfully moved
his art from the streets to the studio. In 2003,
he founded Sicksystems, a graffiti crew that
gradually evolved into a creative collective. Six
years later, Aske struck out on his own, hoping
to establish himself as “a graphic artist and not
just a graphic designer.”
Aske is among a growing group of graffiti-
artists-turned-designers. “I decided not to limit
myself to graffiti and chose to develop my art
through experimenting ...