New York is the world capital of street graphics – a creative kaleidoscope of signs, graffiti, murals and advertising. Its innovative ideas, styles and media quickly become international trends.

Street Graphics New York captures the city`s cultural diversity – jazz age elegance, brash sixties Pop Art, hip-hop graffiti, anarchic stencil and sticker art.

New York`s landmark`s are appropriated for chic fashion advertising and and iconic tourist souvenirs, and here too is the city`s 9/11 experience, up on the walls in emotionally charged imagery.

Barry Dawson`s visual themes excite, inform and surprise. New York`s streets are acutely observed and vividly presented in a vital design sourcebook and a unique urban guidebook.

With 208 colour illustrations.