Posts Tagged ‘sign of the times’

Artist of the moment………Street Artist Daim

 

I have been away from writing the past week or so as my computer has been in the shop. I am back in business now!

Daim in an internationally renown street artist famous for his style of 3 D lettering and for the vast size of his works. Daim was born Mirko Reisser in Luneberg, Germany in the year 1971.

The artist works as a tagger, illustrator, sculptor, digital artist, and printmaker.

Daim started tagging when in 1989 as a late teenager.

Daim attended college in Lucerne, Switzerland at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

Below we view a session sponsored by Volvo:

Daim and some other artists helped to create the highest graffiti work ever in 1995. The work is below and is found in Hamburg, Germany. The work is 30 meters by 11 meters. More than 1,000 spray cans were used in making the work. The piece is titled “Sign of the Times.”

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The artist is now based out of Hamburg, Germany.

Price range information: Sorry none available.

Below we view a time lapse video of Daim at work. This is a great clip because its only weeks old and we can see his current style of dimensional lettering he is using:

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