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Obamacize it: Online Shepard Fairey icon generator

By Paul Schmelzer | 01.13.09 | 3:36 pm


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…

Where’s the GOP street art?

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.23.08 | 11:36 am

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,…

Design of the times: Obama ‘Hope’ poster gets a life of its own

By Molly Priesmeyer | 10.14.08 | 12:41 pm

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…

Obama continues to connect with creatives

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.02.08 | 11:42 am

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,…

The election goes lowbrow and underground

By Molly Priesmeyer | 03.20.08 | 10:47 am

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…