From Spray Can to Light: Graffiti Revised

Favourite example of Street Graffiti

This example of street graffiti shows a parody of Crayola, since the Crayola logo has been replaced with the word "Graffiti" and the tagline has been changed from "Colour your world" to "Colour your city."  The elements and principles of design that apply to this example are lines, size, colours and balance.  The lines that are featured in this example are the diagonal lines near the bottom of the graffiti.  The diagonal lines also vary in thickness and are coloured in different shades of green.  Yellow and various shades of green are the dominant colours in this example, but it also features other colours.  Lastly, the left and right side of the graffiti are balanced because there are the same number of lines on each side of the graffiti.

Favourite example of Light Graffiti

This example of light graffiti is an advertisement for the Cannes Film Festival.  The word "Cannes" is written in light graffiti.  The elements and principles that apply to this example are colour, balance and contrast.  The two colours that dominate in this example is black and blue.  A darker shade of blue is used as the background, while a lighter shade of blue is used to write the word "Cannes."  The person is wearing all black, which contrasts against the blue background.  The person also makes the picture balanced, since she is standing in the middle of the picture.

Comparing and Contrasting
These two examples of graffiti are very similar because they both feature two dominant colours.  They also show a message to the viewer.
These two examples of graffiti are different because the Cannes poster only contains three colours (blue, white, and black), while the street graffiti, although green and yellow were the dominant colours, also contained pink, red, blue and orange.  The street graffiti contained more text than the Cannes poster.  Lastly, the Cannes poster contained a signature, while the street graffiti example did not.