Shepard Fairey, creator of the ‘OBEY Giant’ brand is one of today’s most influential street artists. His work is known for its propagandistic treatment of bold colours, simplistic graphical style and political messages.
I was lucky enough to be in Los Angeles in the weeks before last years US Presidential Election and one particular piece of Shepard’s work, the Barrack Obama ‘HOPE’ poster, was present on just about every street you walked down. As an artist wanting to show his support for change, with no connection to Obama, the iconic poster was adopted firstly by the public and later, because of its great success, by the Obama campaign. As Shepard explains in a recent televised interview with Charlie Rose, this is ‘an exciting example of the principle of change happening from the bottom up.’ Click here to see the interview.
Fairey was also recently commissioned by Penguin Books to design covers of two George Orwell classics, ‘1984′ and ‘Animal Farm’.
Find out more about Shepard and see more of his work on the OBEY Giant website here.
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