Shepard Fairey

Making the cover of TIME wasn’t the peak of Shepard Fairey’s successes this election season: his iconic Obama poster was purchased by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery for an undisclosed sum, and a reworking of the red, white and blue classic is being given away to donors to the historic inauguration. But for those of [...]

A lot has been written about street artists promoting the candidacy of Barack Obama, but how about the GOP side? A search at Flickr shows only a few photos of street art that could be construed, in a pinch, as supporting the Republican ticket (John McCain as Billy Elliot, a fuzzy [if endangered] polar bear [...]

While there are plenty of memorable images in this presidential campaign that are still jockeying to be the Most Significant, a design by artist Shepard Fairey has, quite literally, changed the face of presidential campaigns. His now-famous “Hope” and “Progress” images designed for Barack Obama helped bring art and design culture into campaign marketing. After [...]

Whether through calculated efforts by his campaign or grassroots channels (like NotCot.org’s user-submitted entry system), Barack Obama seems to be the biggest beneficiary of the work of street artists, programmers and graphic designers: following Shepard Fairey’s Obama posters, new pieces have come out by Munk One, Date Farmers and Sam Flores. For artists, the project [...]

A couple months ago, street artist/designer Shepard Fairey debuted his limited-edition Barack Obama prints on his Web site. Like everything else Fairey has done (including honest-to-goodness marketing campaigns for corporate giants Pepsi and such) the series of Obama posters took inspiration from Fairey’s “Andre the Giant”/”Obey” anti-campaign he’s famous for: shadowy, graphic, three-tone images that [...]