they broke the mould

“The success in manifesting our own culture led us to believe that anything was achievable, so we created our own spoken and visual language. That served as an encryption of the culture, which took the mainstream over a decade to decode. In art school my instructors were preaching to me that the graff-style pieces I was doing weren’t art, that they would never be art. The funny thing is as they were condemning me, I was turning my homework into skate graphics, which were going out to a hundred thousand people. That was in 1989.”

Andy Howell in this months Juxtapoz magazine