Congratulations to SABER for his mention in the latest (Sept/Oct) issue of Print Magazine, and to fellow designer and good friend Nice Outfit for the launch of SABER's new website. The article isn't yet, and probably won't be available online, so here's the write-up in case you have trouble finding a copy:

Los Angeles graffiti legend SABER was barely 20 years old in 1996 when his fellow vandal GKAE challenged him to paint the world's largest graffiti piece. A year of dangerous night missions and 100 gallons of house paint later, SABER's full-color piece on the sloping banks of the L.A. River (a location made famous in Grease) entered the annals of street immortality. Of course, fame, even by the anonymous standards of graffiti, comes with a big bull's-eye. In 1999, the long-notorious New York graffiti writer JA made a special trip just to spray-paint all over it, but SABER (who, to give an idea of the piece's scale, is sitting on the top section of this B in the center of the photo above) soon restored the piece to its former glory. Now 10 years old, SABER's football-field-size section of the L.A. riverbed is a graffiti Methuselah--one you can see clearly on Google Earth near where Interstate 5 and 10 intersect with the river, and read about in Saber: Mad Society, the artist's monograph now out from Gingko Press.