The weekend before last, I took a walk from Bethnal Green down Hackney Road and came across a few new street art pieces. A street art collaboration has recently gone up in Ion Square off of Hackney Road. The work is by Pref and Gary, both of whom use typography in their street art. Pref often creates phrases in limited space by using different shapes and colours that are then overlayed on top of each other. This recent large-scale piece is a collaboration between the artists and reads "Big Smoke". The word "Smoke" is in grey lettering and in the back and over the top of the orange and gold "BIG".
It was nice to see this unexpected artwork on this wall, which had been neglected for awhile but which did previously contain some street art.
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