A visual anthology that traces how graffiti “style writing” evolved into street art and became legible within wider cultural and institutional contexts, documenting key phases, artists, and aesthetic shifts through extensive imagery and short contextual texts. It is relevant to my E&E practice because it helps me read graffiti not as background texture but as a cultural layer that produces “placeness”: the visual language of tags, letterforms, and surface interventions functions as a social signal, shaping how Shoreditch is perceived, navigated, and remembered. By studying this anthology, I can better articulate the overlap between graffiti aesthetics and the cultural economy of the street—useful for translating field observation into structured visual research and mapping outcomes.