Graffiti disappears. Books remain.

What remains of graffiti lives in photographs, personal archives, memories and conversations. Ruyzdael Publishing brings these fragments together through research, editorial work and design, giving them a lasting form in print.

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Shoe’s Black Book

Niels Shoe Meulman

Before the galleries, the recognition, his development as a typographer and founding the Calligraffiti art movement, there was this: a worn and relentless black book filled with tags, pieces and outlines.

View the book, €55Read: The strange case of Shoe’s Black Book

Current titles

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Shoe's Black Book, stack of books with the title over a photograph of a worn black book

Shoe’s Black Book — Graffiti in the 1980s

Niels Shoe Meulman

Shoe’s Black Book by Niels Shoe Meulman offers a window into an artist’s formative years.

2025, Paperback, 232 pp, €55
Shoe's Black Book Special Edition, hardcover in a slipcase covered with a collage of black book pages

Shoe’s Black Book — Graffiti in the 1980s (Special Edition)

Niels Shoe Meulman

Shoe’s Black Book by Niels Shoe Meulman offers a window into an artist’s formative years.

2025, Hardcover, 232 pp, €299
Subway Art(efact), cover with a photograph of a painted subway car and a pink border, seen at an angle

Subway Art(efact)

Edward Birzin

Subway Art(efact) offers a bold new perspective on the real origins of modern graffiti.

2025, Paperback, 100 pp, €99
Repainting Subway Art, cover with a grid of painted trains, seen at an angle

Repainting Subway Art

Tripl a.k.a. Furious

One gifted Dutch graffiti writer, Tripl, has recreated and reinterpreted Subway Art, paying both homage to, and starting a dialogue with, the creators of the original book and graffiti as a whole.

2024, Paperback, 196 pp, €59
Tunnel Vision, cover showing metro tracks in a lit tunnel, seen at an angle

Tunnel Vision

Aldo van den Broek & Boris Tellegen

A one-to-one reproduction in book form of the underground metro route between Amsterdam Centraal and Amstel stations.

2024, Paperback, 240 pp, €59
Side Tracks, newsprint cover with line drawings of letters and a photograph, seen at an angle

Side Tracks

Boris Delta Tellegen × Ruyzdael

A 24-page tabloid based on Delta’s so-called ‘workout sessions’.

2021, Tabloid, 24 pp, €15
Why Oh Why, newspaper-style publication on a kraft paper cover with the title in large letters

Why Oh Why

WOW crew

Why Oh Why covers 2010–2020, following the first twenty years of WOW (1989–2010).

2020, Tabloid, 48 pp, €25

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RecordsRuyzdael Music

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Rariteitenkabinet, sleeve with the title in black letter blocks over colour washes, with black vinyl

Duvel — Rariteitenkabinet

2026, LP, from €35
King of the Line Soundtrack, front of the sleeve with a black and white flame drawing

Nug — King of the Line Soundtrack

2003, EP, €200
Writers on Wax Volume 1, white sleeve with black spray-paint drips and red vinyl

Writers on Wax — The Sound of Graffiti Volume 1

2019, LP, from €30
Writers on Wax All Out Kings, white sleeve with a black spray-painted X and red vinyl

Writers on Wax — All Out Kings

2021, EP, from €15
Writers on Wax Volume 2, sleeve with black spray-painted lines and red vinyl

Writers on Wax — The Sound of Graffiti Volume 2

2022, LP, from €35

Out of print

The backlist
Out of printWriting Our World, cover with large black letters on a red and black gradient

Writing Our World — Graffiti Manifesto

WOW crew

2025, Paperback, 80 pp
Out of printShave's Cut, cover with a photograph of a painted train, seen at an angle

Shave’s Cut — Cult. Need. & Dedication.

Shave

2019, Paperback, 352 pp
Out of printCatalogue of Unsolved Crimes, red hardcover with a photograph on the cover, seen at an angle

Catalogue of Unsolved Crimes

Mellie

2023, Hardcover, 384 pp

Every title keeps its full page, images and credits after it sells out.