Ted Audio Collective

After everything I saw, what could I do, you know, what could I now do?

I knew I was arriving to the scale in which the gold standard was of that moment, which

is a whole subway car.

From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.

For 17 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people

about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about

and working on.

On this episode, graffiti artist Futura talks about the art seen in New York in the 1970s

and about technique.

The simplest thing I could say is all you have to do is turn the can upside down.

It seems pretty simple.

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Leonard Hilton McGurr was a young artist

writing graffiti on subway cars in New York City.

Then he joined the Navy and was overseas for four years.

When he came back, the graffiti scene was beginning to merge with the East Village

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