Ben Eine (real name Ben Flynn born 23 August 1970) is a prolific street artist based in London, England. Eine is most notable for his alphabet lettering on shop shutters in London's Shoreditch, Brick Lane and Broadway Market areas. Some of these letters have been mapped for ease of finding. He has also taken his lettering to the streets of Paris, Stockholm, Hastings and Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to becoming involved in commercial graffiti, Eine was a very famous and highly credible writer in the underground London graffiti scene. Inspired by the work of fashion assassin Noki, Eine first started to explore more commercial avenues in a workshop above the Dragon Bar in Lenoard Street, London (now knocked down). Eine produced a number of custom clothing designs notably some custom "VANDALS" sweatshirts and started to explore screen prints. At this time Eine contributed to sticker graffiti and was prolific in East London with his neon and black EINE stickers (multiple EINE names).
Eine first came to prominence in the "commercial" graffiti scene through his symbiotic partnership with London graffiti artist Banksy; through Eine, Banksy was able to access the underground scene and through Banksy Eine accessed the commercial world. Impressed by the work of Banksy Eine chose to focus on "commercial" graffiti. In his commercial work he has produced numerous lettering styles including: shutter, circus, neon, elton, vandalism and wendy. In 2007, the Tower Hamlets Partnership began to survey residents of Brick Lane to ask whether they considered his graffiti offensive and should be removed. Eine's work has been shown by Catherine Hodgkinson at various art fairs including the 20/21 British Art Fair and the London Art Fair. Ben Eine used to be the in-house printer for London based Pictures on Walls. He was responsible for the prints of such artists as Banksy, Jamie Hewlett and Anthony Micallef. He left this position to pursue his own solo career in 2008. On July 21,2010 British Prime Minister David Cameron presented one of Eine's canvases to President Barack Obama during a visit to Washington, DC.
