DEFinition - The Art and Design of Hip Hop

Compiled by legendary hip-hop designer Cey Adams, DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip-Hop is the first comprehensive anthology published in the name of the genre during the last thirty-five years. This landmark volume celebrates a culture that has made its mark on everything from fine art to the label on a bottle of Hawaiian Punch, including fashion, automobiles, movies, television, advertising, and sneakers. It highlights the careers and artwork of such crucial hip-hop elders as Lady Pink, Haze, Run-DMC, Dapper Dan, Buddy Esquire, Spike Lee, and Snoop Dogg as well as contemporary giants like Kehinde Wiley, Mr. Cartoon, Shepard Fairey, Dalek, Mike Thompson, Jor One, and Claw Money, and dozens of others, DEFinition examines the evolution of hip-hop as a visual phenomenon with the historical depth that only an insider like Cey Adams can provide. Featuring more than 200 stunning photographs and illustrations as well as compelling essays by some of hip-hop"s most seasoned voices, DEFinition illuminates the culture in a form that speaks to aficionados and newcomers alike. "Definition: The Art and Design of Hip-Hop" is a visually rich, diverse book designed by one of the foremost Hip-Hop designers working today, Cey Adams. The book will celebrate the widespread impact of Hip-Hop"s visual style in seven chapters on fashion, sneakers, advertising, music, movies and television, street art and fine art, and automobiles. It will be the first book to track the influence of Hip-Hop graphics down the decades and across a variety of media. All of the individual works reproduced in the book will be duly identified and captioned, but much of the text will be in the form of informative and entertaining essays by well-known specialists in each given field. The book"s foreword is by Russell Simmons.