Robert Del Naja

When you look at Banksy's work as a catalogue of ideas, it's undeniably brilliant. Going back to my days doing stencil work back in the 80s I knew that it wasn't exactly the most demanding work: it's like printing, but then Warhol was a printer.

British Artist

Banksy

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

English Artist

Stencils are often used for artistic activities like wall murals or t-shirt printing.

Artistic Tool

Stencils allow you to replicate the same pattern or design multiple times consistently.

Repeated Patterns

Using stencils in home decoration is popular for creating intricate designs on walls and furniture.

Home Decor

People often stencil names or initials on personal items for identification or decoration.

Personalize Belongings

Businesses stencil logos or messages on promotional items and packaging.

Marketing Material

Stenciling is a method to display public notices or directions on roads and walls.

Public Messages

Stencils in photography are used to precisely control light for creative effects.

Photographic Precision

Photography stencils are a specialized darkroom tool, not for general crafting.

Darkroom Technique

Stencils in photography help highlight or shade parts of an image during printing.

Enhanced Detail

 can help improve our lives. We don't bump into every neighbor, so a lot of wisdom never gets passed on, though we do share the same public spaces. So over the past few years, I've tried ways to share more with my neighbors in public space, using simple tools like stickers, stencils and chalk.

Before I die I want...

 of wisdom never gets passed on but we do share the same public spaces so over the past few years I've tried ways to share more with my neighbors in public space using simple tools like stickers stencils and chalk and these projects came from questions I had like how much

 actually helped me do these pictures which with the aid of stencils a little you know we can actually make photographs with living cells this thing is not really working you know and what we were trying to do we're trying to inflict some kind of a comfortable

Finding the transformativ...

 itself based on Thomas Edison's stencil machine from 1876. But with the incredibly broad history of tattoos giving you so many options, what are you going to get? This is a bold-lined expression of who you are, or you want to appear to be.

The history of tattoos -...

 just like a filter for all this plastic pollution which in the ocean using a lot of its winding up in Hawaii plus the currents the whole world that is throwing away five a water bottle a stick packages netting a stencil sort of a car

Kids Take Action Against...

 maiden in a river of blood in front of the tank authority comes paints the worldwide leaves the tank leaves the food and throws a bucket of black paint just to hide the face of the monster so I come with my stencils and I spray

Bahia Shehab: A thousand...

 in front of the tank. Authority comes, paints the wall white, leaves the tank, leaves the suit, and throws a bucket of black paint just to hide the face of the monster. So I come with my stencils, and I spray them on the suit,

 This is newsprint plus stencils that lie on the newsprint. We let that lie around in the sun. As you all know, newsprint yellows significantly in the sun. After a week, we took the stencils and the leaves off,

Stefan Sagmeister:...

 as I suddenly notice a stencil on the pavement in front of me, white letters painted on these dark grey bricks. It says, "Where is your responsibility?"

Why do we blame...

 so these days a grave that's my grandmother's would usually be inscribed by sandblasting the text onto the stone through a rubberized laser-cut stencil