There's this grafitti tagger here in town who scrawls his name everywhere in big black magic marker. On the sides of mailboxes, on walls, on doors. Thing is, it's a nice design and he's got a catchy name. I was thinking the other day that if I started a clothing line, I would like to use his tag as my trademark logo. Chances are, he hasn't trademarked his tag. If I decided to trademark it myself, then deployed it as the name of my clothing line, as well as use his scrawl on the backs of the hoodies I sold - legally, would he have any recourse?
posted by Sully on Oct 8, 2009 - 29 answers

Urbanartfilter: Who, what, and why is this the square-faced symmetrical stencil face guy? [more inside]
posted by randomination on Oct 27, 2007 - 8 answers

How do I get rid of grafitti spray-painted onto brick? [more inside]
posted by storybored on May 11, 2007 - 5 answers

I found this chemical equation on the wall of a men's room in a bar last night. What is it? More importantly, why would someone write it above a urinal at a bar?
posted by nomad on Jun 10, 2006 - 15 answers

I'm trying to track down a location found in the movie 'Thumbsucker'. [more inside]
posted by mnology on Feb 23, 2006 - 5 answers

What's this image? We saw it stenciled onto a wall in Athens. [more inside]
posted by condour75 on Jul 18, 2005 - 16 answers

NYC: In a city where advertising posters of all kinds regularly get defaced, sometimes to reveal the latent cultural politics, sometimes just for the humour of it, why does it seem like all of the NYC2012 Olympic Bid posters remain 100% pristine? (For those outside of the area, these are an extremely prolific series of posters presenting various pithy phrases in colored text over black.)
posted by nobody on Feb 23, 2005 - 18 answers