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In 1995 Thomas Marecki aka Marok, inspired by Raygun magazine, founded Lodown , an organ which endowed the until then visually blank page of the German and European board, street and graffiti scene with its innovative style. By combining extreme sports, entertainment and a suitably politically incorrect lifestyle with new, modern graphics for the visually backward old school scene (caught between punk rock and ski slope trash), he kick-started a new style elite in the realms of sport, design and ideology, searching for patterns in urban life. In this volume M Marok unlocks his personal archive and compiles an ostensibly loose, uncommented collection of his own works, illustrations, photographs, ideas and drafts. Freed of any magazine-related story or layout dictates M can act as a source book and well of inspiration.