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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2020, Tabloid, 48 pp, €25

Journal

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RecordsRuyzdael Music

All records
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.