Photograph: Bowery Boogie
**Tags** are the signatures of a street artist. Done freehand, they can be made with a number of materials, including spray paint and heavy-duty marker. Perler recommends looking for **Jim Joe**’s name, which can be found across New York, written in childlike, all-capital letters.

Graffiti styles: Five types of street art and artists to look for

LES blog Bowery Boogie and Eric Felisbret of @149St explain common street-art and graffiti styles, and recommend artists and works to look for in NYC.

Monday April 22 2013

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Elie Perler—cofounder of Bowery Boogie (boweryboogie.com), a local blog covering the Lower East Side—and Eric Felisbret, author of Graffiti New York and editor of @149St (at149st.com), lists five common graffiti styles and the artists—such as Tats Cru and Hanksy—who use them.

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