Morning Wood

Book excerpt: Morning Wood features the work of 50 of the world's current top 'alternative creators' in an incredible compilation that is not only pure inspiration but a celebration of the acceptance of graffiti and street styles into the mainstream and commercial world. Morning Wood provides a long-awaited forum for well-known visionaries such as billboard liberator Ron English; the creator of the "Garbage Pail Kids," John Pound; and Sex Pistols art director Jamie Reid. Morning Wood also features the latest generation's brightest artistic and photographic stars such as Espo, Cynthia Connolly, Dalek, Giant, Shepard Fairey. Andrew Jeffrey Wright, and Estevan Oriol. Each artist was given complete freedom to present a selection of his or her work in four full bleed pages and the short, up-to-date biographies which accompany each spread assist in putting this remarkable 21st century art into context.