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多年来我总认为涂鸦是一种人们在建筑上一种不礼貌和别有用心的绘画。丑陋也不文雅，尤其是你在自己的车上和院墙上发现这种涂鸦的时候。但我却有机会发现涂鸦的另外一面，我发现其内在的美感，它们赋予沉闷的市区新鲜的字体感、广告感。

For years I thought of graffiti as a disrespectful and deliberate defacement of things that people put time and effort into building. Ugly and just not very nice, especially if it happened to your car or fence. But I have since come to see graffiti with a different eye; I’ve seen it used beautifully in interiors, as a typeface in ads and to beautify some of our building faces and dull urban areas.

漂亮的涂鸦例如See No Evil，是在英国布里斯托尔的一个项目。

A good example of Beautiful Graffiti can be seen in See No Evil, a street art project in Bristol England.

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另一种类型的涂鸦是Reverse Graffiti，还有一些人也能激发我们Paul Curtis，aka Moose不仅做涂鸦，做得很漂亮，也能传达信息，更能在社区清除难看的区域（因为他的艺术作品本身就清除表层的脏污）。NPR对Paul Curtis和他的项目做了采访。

Taking graffiti to the opposite side of the spectrum, we have Reverse Graffiti, and someone who inspires me — Paul Curtis, aka Moose — who not only makes graffiti, but does it beautifully, usually with a message, and it cleans up ugly urban areas at the same time (because he actually creates his art by cleaning dirt and grime off surfaces). NPR did an interview with Paul Curtis about his process.

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