Vishal Rawlley and Kurnal Rawat

Taxi sticker art

Vishal Rawlley and Kurnal Rawat, Typocity, 2003.

Taxi sticker art.

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Interview with Vishal Rawlley: Taxi sticker art

Rawlley describes the lineage and styles of taxi sticker art.

Excerpt of: Interview with Vishal Rawlley / produced by the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology; interviewer, camera: Raphaëlle Aubin, 1 videocassette (1 hr. 18 min.): master, digital, col., sound. Interview conducted May 2, 2007 in Montreal (QC).

Vishal Rawlley and Kurnal Rawat, Typocity, 2003.

Rawat and Rawlley commissioned a taxi artist to create a sticker art piece to demonstrate the techniques used.

Courtesy of the artists.

Taxi sticker art downloadable font

Vishal Rawlley and Kurnal Rawat, Typocity, 2003

This project provides insight into the culture of taxi sticker art (a): the artisans involved in this craft, their workplace and tools, and an elaboration of their production technique. In this interview excerpt, Rawlley describes the lineage and styles of taxi sticker art (b). By documenting step-by-step processes, the TyPoCiTy Web site also presents the production techniques used by the craftsmen and technicians (c). Finally, the artists converted some of the more interesting lettering styles found in their research into digital fonts that users can download from the TyPoCiTy Web site (d).