Far were those opinions that the graphite it damaged the image of the city and, fortunately, in some places it is treated as the art that it is.
One such site is the Truly Design Studio, which since 2007 directs and supports street art creators working on the scene since 1996.
In 2018, the study received the Cannes Golden Lion for his work "David Bowie is here", located in the New York Subway and used by the music streaming platform Spotify.
The studio works with 3d art, creating murals or paintings inside offices and workplaces, as well as creating the branding of various brands worldwide with its relaxed and urban style.
The three in charge of Truly Design Studio are Mauro149, Rems182 and Ninja1, urban artists who have been in the graffiti scene for decades.
Mauro 149, was born in Italy, but ensures that graffiti has made him travel around the world.
He is the founder of Truly Design Studio and reveals that drawing has always been his tool to process and describe his inner universe.
His encounter with graffiti fueled his love for illustration and it became his passion and his life mission.
He started with the famous "tags" and "bombs", where his nickname was written in all possible places in huge letters.
However, now his art is diverse and ranges from drawings of monsters to detailed faces and murals of several meters in size.
Nature is also his source of inspiration, hence the birds and human faces are a constant in his work.
rems182 He was born in Turin, Italy in 1982 and from the age of 17, he became interested in graffiti.
For this reason, he decided to study art, where he developed a personal pictorial language, which is related to violence, eroticism and death, represented in large-scale mixed media portraits.
During his academic studies, Rems co-founded the collective Truly Design Studio made up of three friends who have shared his passion for graffiti and urban art since adolescence.
The group's horizons are rapidly expanding from exclusive art production to illustration, graphic design, logo design, didactics and other creative applications.
"I consider my creative act as a necessary and profound form of self-analysis, which I cannot do without," he says.
And finally, Ninja1 She met her peers in adolescence and a love for graffiti brought them together to give birth to her own studio.
He is the project manager, so he is in charge of looking for the best “spots” so that they can capture their art.
The urban lines were born as a cry for attention from artists who asked to be taken seriously even if their origin was the street itself.