*Selected for the Most Beautiful Swiss Books Award 2024
The extraordinary story of the pioneer of tagging and graffiti writing, Cornbread the Legend, is all here in this superbly designed book released in conjunction with the typeface 'Cornbread'.
Through archive newspapers, drawings, photographs and an interview by Maxitype, Cornbread's ground-breaking impact on the Hip Hop movement is revealed. In 1971, the Philadelphia Tribune mistakenly announced Cornbread’s death. To prove them wrong, Darryl "Cornbread" McCray pursued a series of epic tagging missions, including spray-painting an elephant at the Philadelphia Zoo and a TWA jet aeroplane.
This triggered a plethora of articles, interviews and quotes, propelling the once-anonymous figure to public fame. As soon as young kids saw Cornbread splashed all over the news, they wanted a piece of the action, so they all picked up markers and paint cans themselves and joined in: graffiti writing was born.
This book comes with download code for a Desktop License (1 CPU) for the typeface 'Cornbread Fat' - so you can write your own Cornbread tags!