Makers / W.O.W. crew

Maker

W.O.W. crew

Also known as WOW

Graffiti crew, Amsterdam and Utrecht

About

W.O.W. crew formed in the late 1980s between Amsterdam and Utrecht during the first European graffiti wave. The crew developed around anonymity, consistency, humour and a refusal to commercialise, maintaining a long-running practice built on shared codes and collective identity rather than individual visibility.

For Ruyzdael Publishing, Why Oh Why documented the crew’s third decade, 2010–2020. Writing Our World — Graffiti Manifesto takes a different approach, bringing the crew’s principles, convictions and recent work together as a manifesto rather than a retrospective.