Prague prepares for its first festival of graffiti and street art

Graffiti is a form of street art, it appeared 30 years ago; later, stickers and stencils came to carry on the legacy, still – graffiti is the most wide-spread street art form. Names Fest focuses on legality, graffiti is going to be presented as a form of creative art, not from the side of an adrenaline sport. A few legally rented walls are waiting to introduce Czech and foreign authors and their art.

There are going to be presentations of famous international art pieces and cult movies. The artists, who left an imprint on walls of many cities are welcomed to introduce themselves.

Names Fest takes place since 26th August to 6th September in Trafacka gallery and around the famous movie theatre Aero. The festival culminates by the contest of the best artpiece, and continues by an exhibition in Trafacka until the end of October.

A bonus of this exhibition is an auction of graffiti created on canvas.

Sticker graffiti craze takes

But one new invention could put paid to all that – a sticker book full of graffiti creations by some of the world's best street artists.

Now would-be graffers can walk around sticking up masterpieces all over their favourite patch (although we should warn you this is just as illegal as the real thing).

The love affair with 'stickerbombing' – or slapping stickers on street furniture with merry abandon – has a long history with young rebels.

But only now has a collectable, fully peelable sticker book with more than 250 specially commissioned stickers been developed.

London-based agency Studio Rarekwai took up the challenge with writers Ryo Sanada and Suridh Hassan compiling Sticker­bomb, their newly rel­eased book.