Shepard Fairey

The Warhol Economy
by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Published 15 Jan 2020

While the original intent of the campaign appears to be an abstract parody on the pervasiveness of the media (Andre stickers and stencils could be found everywhere) and propaganda (more obvious in his later OBEY Giant campaign), the cultish following and the carpet-bomb stickering of cities around the world is a part of what Shepard has called an “experiment in Phenomenology.”4 Guerrilla street artist Shepard Fairey’s wheat-pasted propaganda-style icon on Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District. Photographer: Frederick McSwain. © Frederick McSwain. Used by permission. A Shepard Fairey wheat-pasted image from his OBEY street campaign located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Photographer: Frederick McSwain. © Frederick McSwain. Used by permission. A skater at Tomkins Square Park in the East Village. Photographer: Frederick McSwain. © Frederick McSwain. Used by permission. The original Andre the Giant sticker from Shepard Fairey’s international “experiment in phenomenology.”

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The original Andre the Giant sticker from Shepard Fairey’s international “experiment in phenomenology.” Originally Xeroxed on paper in 1989. Sticker design: Shepard Fairey. © Shepard Fairey. Used by permission. Shepard’s Andre the Giant Has a Posse campaign evolved into the OBEY Giant campaign. OBEY, which is similar in nature and iconic status but with an even larger following that features stickers, stencils, and wheatpasted posters with Orwellian propaganda-like graphics that are often marked by anti-Bush (as in George W.), anti-war, and anti-corporate sentiments. (Those interested in participating can order a variety of OBEY Giant stickers, sold in bulk, from his Web site.)

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The importance of a dense advertising industry in New York should not be downplayed. Many of the creative producers I interviewed had permanent jobs in one of these industries, such as Sam Wheeler, a musician but also a display designer for Barneys, or Claw, a graffiti writer and fashion editor for Swindle magazine (which was founded by Shepard Fairey, who also started the clothing company OBEY), or Stephen Blackwell, a musician and also editor for the indie music magazine Death + Taxes. Further, the concentration of creativity leads to greater chances of more creativity happening. This seems obvious—more creative people leads to more creativity—yet it also indicates that innovation is not entirely capricious and unsystematic.

A Primer on Utopian Philosophy: An Introduction to the Work of Ernst Bloch
by Jonathan Greenaway
Published 29 Mar 2024

On 4 November 2008 at Grant Park in Chicago, the president elect, Barack Obama, took to the stage and thanked his supporters after his historic win in the fight for the US presidency. ‘This is our moment’, said Obama. The iconic image of Obama’s campaign, a stylised stencil drawing of Obama’s face, had been designed by the American artist Shepard Fairey with one word emblazoned underneath: hope. The Obama campaign’s rhetoric suggested a great coming together of all peoples, that if we tried hard enough and worked hard enough and believed then all our hopes could well be fulfilled. Of course, what that meant in practice was two terms of disappointment, of passively watching the political structures of American imperialism thrash along and the promised better things never really arriving.

Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation
by Sophie Pedder
Published 20 Jun 2018

On one wall, behind the table, he has hung a work of modern street art featuring Marianne, a national symbol of the French Republic, and the French motto, liberté, égalité, fraternité. Previously in his office at En Marche headquarters, it is a replica of a piece of street art created shortly after one of the Paris terrorist attacks, by Obey (Shepard Fairey), the artist behind the portrait of Obama entitled ‘Hope’. We sat down around the marble-topped table to talk just days after France’s top general had resigned following an explosive public row between him and the president. Would there be traces of the stress or burden of power, I wondered?

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INDEX Abel, Olivier here Adenauer, Konrad here Agir pour l’Ecole here Alduy, Cécile here Allard, Mathilde here Aly, Guillaume here Amiens here description of here, here Henriville here, here, here La Providence Catholic school here, here, here, here launch of En Marche here, here, here 2017 presidential election campaign here Arnault, Bernard here Aschenbroich, Jacques here al-Assad, Bashar here, here Asselineau, François here Association for the Renewal of Political Life, The here Attali, Jacques here, here Attali Commission here, here, here, here, here Aubry, Martine here, here, here, here Auzière, André-Louis here, here, here Auzière, Brigitte here, here, here: see also Macron, Brigitte Auzière, Laurence here, here Auzière, Sébastien here Auzière, Tiphaine here, here, here Aymard, Léonard here Badinter, Robert here Balibar, Etienne here Bande de Filles (film) here banlieues here, here, here, here, here Avignon here Clichy-sous-Bois, Paris here Décines-Charpieu, Lyon here Lyon here, here Paris here, here, here, here, here, here, here Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris here Sevran, Paris here, here Trappes, Paris here unemployment here Vaulx-en-Velin, Lyon here Barbier, Christophe here Barre, Raymond here Barthes, Roland here, here, here Bastiat, Frédéric here Bastille Day military parade (2017) here, here, here, here, here Sarkozy and (2008) here terrorist attack (2016) here Baverez, Nicolas here, here Bayeux Tapestry here, here, here Bayrou, François here, here, here Berger, Laurent here Bertelsmann Stiftung here Berville, Hervé here, here Bessière, Sylvianne here Besson, Philippe here, here, here Bigorgne, Laurent here, here, here, here, here, here Binaisse, Eugène here BlaBlaCar here Blair, Tony here, here, here, here, here, here Blanquer, Jean-Michel here, here, here, here, here, here Blondel, Marc here Blum, Léon here Bolhuis, Véronique here Bolloré, Vincent here Bonnell, Bruno here, here, here, here, here Bordes, Antoine here Bourgi, Robert here Bousquet de Florian, Pierre de here Bouvet, Laurent here Brabeck, Peter here Brexit here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Brice, Laurent here Briois, Steeve here Britain, see Brexit and Europe Brown, Gordon here, here Bruckner, Pascal here Bruni, Carla here Brynjolfsson, Erik: The Second Machine Age here Bugatti, Ettore here Bugatti production site, Molsheim here Buzyn, Agnès here Cahuzac, Jérôme here Cambadélis, Jean-Christophe here Cameron, David here Camos, Sylvain here Camp, Garrett here Campbell, Alastair here Canard Enchaîné, Le: Penelopegate here, here Canto-Sperber, Monique here car industry here Carrère, Emmanuel here, here, here Castries, Henri de here centrism here, see also Third Way politics CFDT (Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail) here CGT (Confédération Générale du Travail) here, here, here Chaban-Delmas, Jacques here, here Chamboredon, Jean-David here Charbonnier, Eric here Chevènement, Jean-Pierre here Chirac, Jacques here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and wealth tax here, here climate change here, here, here Clinton, Bill here, here, here Code du Travail here cohabitation here Cohen, Elie here Colbert, Jean-Baptiste here Collomb, Gérard here Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT) here Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) here, here, here Constant, Benjamin here contrat première embauche (CPE) here Cour des Comptes here, here, here Crozier, Michel here Dalongeville, Gérard here Dardel, Frédéric here Dargnat, Christian here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Dartevelle, Renaud here, here, here, here, here, here, here Dauenhauer, Bernard here de Filippo, Eduardo: L’Art de la Comédie here de Gaulle, Charles here, here, here, here, here, here de Jean, Pierre, see Jean, Pierre de de Villepin, Dominique, see Villepin, Dominique de Delors, Jacques here Delpla, Jacques here, here Denormandie, Julien here, here, here Depardieu, Gérard here Depardon, Raymond here deuxième gauche here digital era artificial intelligence here digital economy here, here, here digital revolution here Dosse, François here Duhamel, Alain here Dworkin, Ronald here Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) here, here Ecole Normale Supérieure here, here economy here, here, here business here competition here digital revolution here industrial policy here labour market here labour reforms here, here politics of taxation here potential for growth here public sector here, here public spending here, here, here, here, here start-ups here, here, here, here see also industry EDP (excessive deficit procedure) here education baccalauréat here, here, here, here, here, here 42 (school) here higher education here lycées here, here, here reforms here, here see also grandes écoles Elysée Palace here, here, here salon doré here, here Emelien, Ismaël here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here En Marche (On the Move) here, here, here beginnings of here door-to-door canvassing here, here, here finances here Grande Marche (2016) here, here, here, here, here hacking of here launch of here, here, here political positioning of here, here structure of here, here, here victory of here ENA (Ecole Nationale d’Administration) here, here Etienne, Philippe here, here Europe here Athens speech here Brexit here, here, here, here Britain here, here, here, here Central and Eastern Europe here defence here, here EDP here eurozone here France and here, here, here Germany here, here reform of here, here Sorbonne speech here excessive deficit procedure (EDP) here Fabius, Laurent here Fadell, Tony here Fairey, Shepard here Ferracci, Marc here, here, here, here, here, here Ferry, Jules here, here Fête de la Rose, Frangy-en-Bresse here Fiévet, Jean-Marie here Fillon, François here, here Penelopegate here political views here 2017 presidential election campaign here, here, here, here Finance Ministry, Bercy here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here financial crisis (2008) here, here Finkielkraut, Alain here FN, see National Front Force Ouvrière here foreign policy here Africa here climate change here Europe, see Europe Middle East here USA here Fort, Sylvain here, here, here Fottorino, Eric here Fouré, Brigitte here Fourquet, Jérôme here, here Frangy-en-Bresse: Fête de la Rose here Front National, see National Front Gaci, Azzedine here Gaddafi, Muammar here Gantzer, Gaspard here, here, here Garicano, Luis here Gatignon, Stéphane here Gauchet, Marcel here Gayet, Julie here Ghosn, Carlos here Giddens, Anthony here, here Giesbert, Franz-Olivier here, here Girier, Jean-Marie here Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry here, here, here, here, here globalization here, here, here, here Gnao, Ange-Mireille here Goldman, Jean-Jacques here Gomes, Christophe here Goulard, Sylvie here Gracques here, here grandes écoles Ecole Centrale here Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) here, here Ecole Normale Supérieure here, here Ecole Polytechnique here, here ESSEC here, here, here HEC here, here Mines ParisTech here, here Sciences Po here, here, here, here, here, here, here Gravier, Jean-François: Paris et le désert français here Grelier, Jean-Carles here Griveaux, Benjamin here, here, here, here, here, here Guerini, Stanislas here Guibert, Pauline here Guilluy, Christophe here Haine, La (film) here, here Hallyday, Johnny here, here Hamon, Benoît here, here, here Hariri, Saad here Hazareesingh, Sudhir here Heisbourg, François here, here, here, here Hénin-Beaumont, see National Front Henrot, François here Hermand, Henry here, here Hesse, Hermann: ‘Stufen’ here Hidalgo, Anne here Hollande, François here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here déchéance here election campaigns here, here, here, here foreign policy here, here, here legalisation of gay marriage here and Macron’s resignation here and private life here and taxation here, here, here and terrorism here, here and Un président ne devrait pas dire ça here Houellebecq, Michel here, here, here The Elementary Particles here Hugo, Victor here industry here car industry here luxury products here new businesses here state and here 35-hour working week here, here, here, here, here, here Inspection Générale des Finances here Institut Montaigne report (2004) here Jean, Guy de here Jean, Pierre de here, here Joffrin, Laurent here Jospin, Lionel here, here, here Jouyet, Jean-Pierre here, here, here, here, here, here Judis, John here Julliard, Jacques here July, Serge here Juncker, Jean-Claude here Juppé, Alain here, here, here, here, here, here conviction for political corruption here plan Juppé here 2017 presidential election campaign here, here, here Kalanick, Travis here Kara, Yacine here Kasbarian, Guillaume here Kassovitz, Mathieu here, here Kepel, Gilles here El-Khatmi, Amine here Kimelfeld, David here Kohler, Alexis here, here Kuchna, Patrice here Kundera, Milan: Jacques et son Maître here Kurtul, Mahir here Laffont, Jean-Jacques here laïcité here Laine, Mathieu here, here, here Lamy, Pascal here, here, here, here Landier, Augustin here Le Bras, Hervé here, here Le Feur, Sandrine here Le Maire, Bruno here, here Le Pen, Jean-Marie here, here, here, here, here, here Le Pen, Marine here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and FN here in Hénin-Beaumont here, here, here and political realignment here 2017 presidential election campaign here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Le Pen, Marion Maréchal see Maréchal-Le Pen, Marion Lecanuet, Jean here LeLarge, Claire here liberalism here, here, here Liegey, Guillaume here, here, here, here, here Lienemann, Marie-Noëlle here Littiere, Mickaël here London School of Economics here, here, here, here Louvre: Cour Napoléon here, here, here, here Love, Courtney here Lycée Henri IV, Paris here Lyon here banlieues here, here Maastricht Treaty here, here, here McAfee, Andrew: The Second Machine Age here Machiavelli, Niccolò here Macron, Brigitte here, here, here, here, here, here after-school theatre club here marriage here, here parental opposition to here Macron, Emmanuel after-school theatre club here and Britain here, here, here caricatures of here and déchéance here early life here economic adviser to Hollande here, here, here economy minister here, here, here, here education here, here, here, here, here election of here En Marche, see En Marche ‘en même temps’ here, here and Europe, see Europe essay in Esprit here family background here and foreign policy, see foreign policy gay rumours here and globalization here, here, here and grandmother, here, here, here, here, here, here iconography here inauguration ceremony here insulting comments here, here, here interviews with, as President here, here, here, here, here, here, here and Jupiterian presidency here, here, here karaoke here and labour reform here, here, here leadership/personal qualities here on literature here loi Macron here, here marriage here, here and Merkel here, here, here, here, here, here, here and music here and networking here, here novels, own here, here optimism of here parental opposition to Brigitte Auzière here, here, here, here and philosophy here, here, here and political realignment here 2017 presidential election campaign here, here, here public-speaking performance here relationship with Brigitte here, here, here, here Rothschild’s here and tech industry here and Third Way politics here and Trump here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and welfare state here Macron, Estelle here Macron, Françoise (née Noguès) here, here, here, here, here Macron, Jean-Michel here, here, here, here, here Macron, Laurent here Madelin, Alain here Mahjoubi, Mounir here Mailly, Jean-Claude here mal français here Malandain, Guy here Malraux, André here Mandelson, Peter here Manette, see Noguès, Germaine Maréchal-Le Pen, Marion here Marguet, Antoine here, here, here, here Martinez, Philippe here May, Theresa here, here Mazzella, Frédéric here, here, here melancholy here Mélenchon, Jean-Luc here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Merchet, Jean-Dominique here Mercier, Hugo here Merkel, Angela here, here, here, here, here, here, here Mihi, Samir here Minc, Alain here, here, here Mines ParisTech here, here Miquel, Emmanuel here, here, here Mitterrand, François here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here mobile telephony here, here Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin): Le Misanthrope here Monnet, Jean here Montebourg, Arnaud here, here, here, here Moreau, Florence here Moscovici, Pierre here Moustaki, Georges: ‘Le Métèque’ here Muller, Arthur here Musée des Confluences here Nanterre, University of here, here Napoleon Bonaparte here, here, here, here, here National Centre for Counter-Terrorism here National Front (FN) here, here, here, here, here, here, here in Hénin-Beaumont here see also Le Pen, Marine NATO here, here, here Ndiaye, Sibeth here, here Niel, Xavier here, here, here, here, here Noguès, Germaine (Manette) here, here, here, here, here Noguès, Jean here Nora, Pierre here nuclear industry here, here O, Cédric here Obama, Barack here, here, here ‘Hope’ portrait here Obey (Shepard Fairey) street art here Oudéa, Frédéric here Paque, Sophie here, here Paris-Descartes, University of here Paulson, Lex here, here Pébereau, Michel here Penelopegate here Pénicaud, Muriel here, here, here Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) here Pervis, Patrick here Peyrefitte, Alain here Philippe, Edouard here, here, here Piette, Jacques here Piketty, Thomas here, here Piochon, Christophe here PIRLS international study of reading (2016) here Pisani-Ferry, Jean here political realignment here Pompidou, Georges here, here Pons, Vincent here Poujade, Pierre here poverty here, here anti-poverty policy here, here, here in banlieues here presidential election campaign (2017) here, here Amiens here Prochasson, Christophe here public spending here, here, here, here, here Putin, Vladimir here, here, here radicalization here Rawls, John here reforms here, here under Chirac here, here under Sarkozy here under Hollande here education here, here and Europe here and eurozone here, here, here, here, here, here, here and labour market here, here, here, here regional France here FN in here Hénin-Beaumont here Lyon here, here, here policies to reunite here regional cities here Republicans, The here, here, here, here Reza, Yasmina here Ricoeur, Paul here, here, here Robert, Father Philippe here, here, here Robertson, George here Rocard, Michel here, here, here, here Rothschild & Cie here Rothschild, David de here, here Rouart, Jean-Marie here Royal, Ségolène here, here, here Rutte, Mark here Sablon, Sandy here Sadirac, Nicolas here, here, here Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de here, here Saint Gobain mirror factory here, here Saint-Simon, Henri de here Salafism here Salhi, Yassin here Sandberg, Sheryl here Santerre, Jean here, here Sarkozy, Cécilia here Sarkozy, Nicolas here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here foreign policy here, here, here private life here, here 2017 presidential election campaign here, here, here, here and reforms here Sartre, Jean-Paul here Say, Jean-Baptiste here Schröder, Gerhard here Schuman, Robert here Sciamma, Céline here Sciences Po, Paris here, here, here, here, here, here, here Séjourné, Stéphane here Sen, Amartya here, here Shety, Loic here Simoncini, Marc here Socialist Party here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Spitz, Bernard here, here, here start-ups, see digital era and taxation and tech Stefanini, Patrick here Strauss-Kahn, Dominique here strikes, see unions and reforms Studer, Bruno here, here, here Sunday trading here, here see also loi Macron Szydlo, Beata here Taquet, Adrien here, here, here, here, here Tardieu, Jean: La Comédie du Langage here taxation here, here, here, here Chirac and here, here Hollande and here, here, here, here Macron and here, here, here, here, here politics of here Sarkozy and here, here and tech here, here, here, here, here wealth tax here, here, here, here, here, here taxis in Paris here, here Uber here, here, here, here Taylor, Maurice here Teixeira, Ruy here terrorist attacks here, here, here counter-terrorism law here Thatcher, Margaret here, here Third Way politics here Thomson, David here, here, here Tirole, Jean here Tocqueville, Alexis de here Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) here, here, here Trierweiler, Valérie here, here Trogneux, Jean here Trogneux chocolate business here, here Trump, Donald here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here TSE (Toulouse School of Economics) here, here, here Uber here, here, here protests against here unemployment here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here Amiens here banlieues here Calais here Chirac and here, here FN and here, here Hénin-Beaumont here Hollande and here Macron and here, here, here, here Uber and here Vaulx-en-Velin here unions, see CFDT, CGT, reforms Unsubmissive France (La France Insoumise) here, here, here Vallée, Shahin here Valls, Manuel here, here, here, here, here, here and terrorism here, here, here 2017 presidential election campaign here, here, here Van Reenen, John here Veil, Simone here Veneau, Jérôme here Vercors (Jean Bruller): Le silence de la mer here Versailles, Palace of: May 2017 meeting with Putin here, here Villepin, Dominique de here, here, here Villeroy de Galhau, François here Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet): Candide here Vuillemot, Jérôme here Weber, Max here Weinberg, Serge here, here welfare state here Wilders, Geert here Xi Jinping here, here Zeugin, Sophie here, here A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR Sophie Pedder has been the Paris Bureau Chief of The Economist since 2003.

New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You
by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms
Published 2 Apr 2018

This explosion of new power energy helped the relatively unknown Obama eclipse the old power donor apparatus of the Clinton campaign in the closely fought 2008 Democratic primaries, raise hundreds of millions in small donations, and win resoundingly in the general election. For all Obama’s talk of “we,” however, his campaign still relied heavily on the magnetism, charisma, and symbolism of Obama himself. Shepard Fairey’s iconic “Hope” poster wasn’t of a crowd of people, it was of Barack Obama. He was the hope. Yet he managed to then use that energy to create a genuine grassroots movement and to champion values that made others feel powerful. Obama ran a campaign that was at once highly participatory and highly structured.

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“We are the ones”: Barack Obama, “Barack Obama’s February 5th Speech,” New York Times, February 5, 2008. www.nytimes.com. “ready on day one”: Larry Beinhart, “Who’s Ready on Day One?,” Huffington Post, May 30, 2008. “Respect. Empower. Include”: Adrian Prandle, “Respect, Empower, Include—Everyday People, Extraordinary Results,” LaborList, April 30, 2009. Shepard Fairey’s iconic: Laura Barton, “Hope—the Image That Is Already an American Classic,” The Guardian, November 10, 2009. Everyone had a lane: Zack Exley, “The New Organizers, What’s Really Behind Obama’s Ground Game,” Huffington Post, November 28, 2008. The related quotes that follow also come from this source.

New York City Like a Local
by Dk Eyewitness

g Street Art g Contents Google Map DUMBO WALLS Map 5; Brooklyn Queens Expressway, Dumbo, Brooklyn; ///land.think.entertainer; https://dumbo.is/dumbo-walls Spanning four blocks along the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, Dumbo’s murals are creative and varied, just like the artists who have made the neighborhood their home. Grab a coffee from Time Out Market and explore: walk along the Jay Street Underpass where Japanese illustrator Yuko Shimizu’s octopus wades through ocean waves; stroll to York and Jay streets to see Shepard Fairey’s nouveau-style woman who represents peace; and end up at Prospect and Jay streets, home to satisfyingly symmetrical shapes by French artist Eltono. g Street Art g Contents Google Map GRAFFITI HALL OF FAME Map 3; E. 106th Street & Park Avenue, Harlem; ///voters.rent.milky Back in the 1980s, activist Ray Rodriguez believed graffiti was a safe way for kids to tell their stories and celebrate hip-hop culture.

Lisbon Like a Local
by DK

In 2015, Portuguese street artist Vhils transformed one such pavement, with the help of the city’s municipal team of pavers, into a mosaicked tribute to the late fado diva (and Alfama hero) Amália Rodrigues. g Public Art g Contents Google Map UNIVERSAL PERSONHOOD Map 4; Rua Senhora da Glória, Graça; ///moats.scrap.answers Two titans of the international street art scene came together to create this politically charged piece. One half is painted in the bold colours of American artist Shepard Fairey (creator of Barack Obama’s “Hope” campaign poster), while the other is carved into the wall itself – a technique made famous by Portuguese artist Vhils. The thought-provoking result is a Muslim woman simultaneously with and without her hijab, revealing her universality. It’s a skewering statement against the Islamophobia sometimes encountered in this city.

Berlin Like a Local
by Dk Eyewitness

g Street Art g Contents Google Map URBAN NATION Map 5; Bülowstrasse 7, Kreuzberg; ///payer.gossip.meanings; www.urban-nation.com Of course the world’s first museum devoted to urban art finds itself in graffiti-obsessed Berlin. This non-profit scoffs at traditional galleries by turning its walls into endless canvases and, true to the soul of public art, making admission free. Aspiring street artists come to see local and international heavyweights – think Banksy and Shepard Fairey. Arts & Culture | Street Art Liked by the locals “Berlin is the epicentre of the urban art world, with Urban Nation as the finest platform for street art in the city. It celebrates art in public spaces and the ever-changing face of the capital.” MIA FLORENTINE WEISS, GERMAN CONCEPTUAL AND PERFORMANCE ARTIST g Street Art g Contents Google Map BOXHAGENER STRASSE Map 2; Friedrichshain; ///gravest.withdrew.elevated Street art isn’t all big, bold murals (though this street does have some quirky ones).

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
by Angela Nagle
Published 6 Jun 2017

Instead, we see online the emergence of a new kind of anti-establishment sensibility expressing itself in the kind of DIY culture of memes and user-generated content that cyberutopian true believers have evangelized about for many years but had not imagined taking on this particular political form. Compare the first election won by Obama, in which social media devotees reproduced the iconic but official blue-and-red stylized stencil portrait of the new president with HOPE printed across the bottom, a portrait created by artist Shepard Fairey and approved by the official Obama campaign, to the bursting forth of irreverent mainstream-baffling meme culture during the last race, in which the Bernie’s Dank Meme Stash Facebook page and The Donald subreddit defined the tone of the race for a young and newly politicized generation, with the mainstream media desperately trying to catch up with a subcultural in-joke style to suit two emergent anti-establishment waves of the right and left.

Pocket Berlin
by Andrea Schulte-Peevers
Published 15 Mar 2023

Handy blogs to keep tabs on the scene are Berlin Art Link (www.berlinartlink.com) and ARTatBerlin (www.artatberlin.com), while highlights on the art calendar include Berlin Gallery Weekend and Berlin Art Week. Street Art A capital of street art, the city is home to Germany’s first urban art museum, the Urban Nation in Schöneberg. Out in the field, Berlin is the canvas of such international heavyweights as Blu, JR, Os Gemeos, Romero, Shepard Fairey and ROA, along with local talent like Alias, El Bocho and XOOOOX. Every night, hundreds of hopeful next-gen artists haunt the streets, staying one step ahead of the police as they aerosol their screaming visions, often within seconds. The streets of Kreuzberg between Kottbusser Tor and the Spree are especially fertile.

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
by Nir Eyal
Published 26 Dec 2013

Advertisers regularly tap into people’s motivations to influence their habits. By looking at ads with a critical eye, we can identify how they attempt to influence our actions. For example, Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign leveraged a deeply inspiring message and image during a time of economic and political upheaval. An iconic poster designed by artist Shepard Fairey conveyed the idea of hope—not only printing the word in bold letters along the bottom of the image, but also through Obama’s steadfast gaze as he looked confidently toward the future. (Unfortunately, because this image is at the center of a copyright battle between Fairey and the Associated Press, which claims ownership of the original photograph used in the artwork, I’ve chosen to not to include it here.

The Weed Runners: Travels With the Outlaw Capitalists of America's Medical Marijuana Trade
by Nicholas Schou
Published 31 Aug 2013

There’s a wide-screen television set in the living room surrounded by oversized leather couches and a large, glass-topped coffee table, upon which rests a wooden salad bowl full of weed. Over the course of the evening, several large joints are rolled and smoked. Comedy Central’s late-night lineup of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report provides the visual entertainment. Watching approvingly over the scene is a framed print of Shepard Fairey’s Hope poster of Obama that hangs on the wall near a woodstove. Dave the horticulturalist gets the master bedroom since he’s arguably been working the hardest, while Lucky ends up crashing on the couch in the living room. The tree trimmers retire to the trailer near the ravine where several redwoods lay stricken, ready to be chopped to pieces.

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
by Peter Lunenfeld
Published 31 Mar 2011

Surrealist art shocked the bourgeoisie in the 1930s and sold everything from soap to tampons half a century later. Deconstructed graphic design sparked the legibility wars of the 1990s, and by 2000, jagged type sells even the most innocuous brand concepts like the “Got Milk?” campaign. Street artist/designer Shepard Fairey, fresh from creating the iconic Hope poster image for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, was hired to craft Saks Fifth Avenue’s spring 2009 marketing push, and did so with Sovietera propaganda graphics proclaiming, “Want It!” Historical precedent is a strong indication that no matter how “revolutionary” the possibility of mass participatory fan culture 31 CHAPTER 2 might have seemed at one point, that potential is not sufficient to support my aspirations for the culture machine.

A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
by Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman
Published 6 Apr 2014

Steve Drezner: specialist in systems analysis and military projects for RAND Corporation Ann Druyan: author and producer specializing in cosmology and popular science Marian Wright Edelman: founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund Betty Edwards: author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Peter Eisenhardt: astronomer, physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Paul Ekman: psychologist, pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions Anita Elberse: professor of business administration at Harvard Business School Eminem: musician, music producer, actor Selwyn Enzer: futurist, former director of USC Center for Futures Research Susan Estrich: lawyer, author, first female campaign manager of a major presidential campaign (for Michael Dukakis) Harold Evans: journalist, author, former editor of the Sunday Times, founded Condé Nast Traveler Ron W. Fagan: sociologist, former professor at Pepperdine University Barbara Fairchild: editor of Bon Appétit, 2000–2010 Shepard Fairey: artist, graphic designer, illustrator Linda Fairstein: author, former chief prosecutor of the sex crimes unit for the Manhattan district attorney’s office John Fiedler: director of communications research for the 1984 Reagan-Bush presidential campaign Louis C. Finch: former deputy undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness for the U.S.

Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
by David J. Anderson
Published 6 Apr 2010

It’s giving people permission to deviate from the textbook. Best of all, Kanban is providing the tools that enable us to explain (and justify) why being different is better and why a choice to be different is the right choice in that context. To emphasize this choice, I designed a T-shirt for the Limited WIP Society, inspired by Shepard Fairey’s Obama campaign poster, and featuring the face of Taiichi Ohno, the creator of the kanban system at Toyota. The slogan “Yes We Kanban” is designed to emphasize that you have permission. You have permission to try Kanban. You have permission to modify your process. You have permission to be different.

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
by Michiko Kakutani
Published 20 Feb 2024

,” The New Yorker, July 4, 2022, newyorker.com/​magazine/​2022/​07/​04/​does-hungary-offer-a-glimpse-of-our-authoritarian-future. Markoff, John, What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (New York: Penguin Books, 2006). McLuhan, Marshall, Quentin Fiore, and Shepard Fairey (illustrator), The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (Berkeley: Gingko Press, 2001). Mishra, Pankaj, Age of Anger: A History of the Present (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017). Monbiot, George, How Did We Get into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature (Brooklyn: Verso, 2017).

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
by Astra Taylor
Published 4 Mar 2014

Coleman, in particular, makes a compelling case that hacking culture, and by association copyleft, though “politically agnostic,” simultaneously upholds values including equalizing access to information, sharing, and unalienated labor that could be interpreted as progressive: “Hackers’ insistence on never losing access to the fruits of their labor—and indeed actively seeking to share these fruits with others—calls into being Karl Marx’s famous critique of estranged labor” (253). 34. Some exceptions are celebrity artists like Jeff Koons and Shepard Fairey, who have built their careers defiantly appropriating the work of others, while jealously guarding their own reconextualizations. Koons has had numerous high-profile lawsuits brought against him for copyright violation: he filed one against the producers of bookends he says resemble his Balloon Dog sculpture (that his Balloon Dog sculpture resembles a balloon dog seems to give him no pause); in 2008 Fairey, before becoming a copyright-reform poster boy because of the AP’s lawsuit over his Obama “Hope” print, sent a cease and desist order to a Texas resident who altered his famous Andre the Giant Has a Posse stencil by adding a respiratory mask and the word “Protect” (a particularly ironic move given the legal trouble Fairey was threatened with when he first began using the Andre image many years ago).

Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity
by Currid
Published 9 Nov 2010

—Ed Ruscha Cory Kennedy became a star at sixteen years old due to the Cobra Snake. Cobra Snake, also known as Mark Hunter, was a photographer documenting the LA party scene. A scruffy young guy (twenty-one when he met Kennedy), Hunter was a bit of a legend for his access to the best of highbrow and low-brow LA nightlife. One night he would be at graffiti star Shepard Fairey’s DJ show at La Cita in downtown LA, and another he’d be taking pictures of a fashion runway show. All of these photos were put up on his site, Polaroid Scene, which later became the Cobra Snake. One night in the summer of 2005, at a music show at El Rey Theatre on Wilshire Boulevard, Hunter met Kennedy, a meeting that would be the watershed moment in Kennedy’s life as she knew it.

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
by Janette Sadik-Khan
Published 8 Mar 2016

In contrast, DOT’s public art program avoided this institutional hurdle by placing works on the street for under a year at a time, the designated period before a work would require design commission approval. This created more adventurous, colorful, and constantly changing installations, ranging from lesser known but talented local artists to giants of the art scene, like Shepard Fairey. A colorful mural beneath the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway brings life to a dark underpass while reinforcing the DOT’s safety messaging. NYC DOT—Courtney Whitelocke In one instance, we held a design competition asking artists to use the fifty thousand square feet of roadbed in Times Square, from 42nd to 47th streets, as a canvas for their imaginations.

Fodor's Seoul
by Fodor's Travel Guides
Published 29 Nov 2022

Lotte Museum of Art (LMOA) ART MUSEUM | Opened in 2018, this relatively new museum is dedicated to introducing new waves of modern art from around the globe. From paintings to immersive installations, LMOA is curated with any eye on quality work that also pushes boundaries, with exhibitions of work by artists such as Shepard Fairey, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, and others. ELotte World Tower, 300, Olympic-ro, Jamsil P02/1544–7744 wlottemuseum.com A₩19,000 (early bird ₩9,500) mJamsil Station Exits 1 & 2. Lotte World THEME PARK | FAMILY | If you’re looking to unleash the kid in you, plan a day at Lotte World. Opened in 1989, this complex contains one of the world’s largest indoor theme parks, an outdoor amusement park, and oodles of other attractions.

Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America
by David Callahan
Published 9 Aug 2010

MoveOn.org ran television ads that, among other things, featured a stuffed moose fretting about Sarah Palin. Liberal bloggers—the “netroots”—rallied behind Obama’s campaign, and the Internet crackled with viral Obamania. The Nation ran a cover story that pronounced Obama the “left’s best chance” to bring to “fruition a new progressive majority.”2 Even the street artist Shepard Fairey got excited about Obama, creating the instantly iconic Hope poster of the candidate. Rarely in memory had a Democratic nominee received such heartfelt support from the party’s base. But the defeat of John McCain in November 2008 was also helped along by a less likely set of supporters, a group that Forbes dubbed “Obama’s billionaires.”

Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
by Brittany Kaiser
Published 21 Oct 2019

In demographics from youth to the elderly, from the North to the South, communities across America were caring about politics again because of our careful data collection work and simple yet targeted messaging. To reach the arts community, the campaign issued a call to action across platforms, asking artists to send their work for consideration in use in official campaign materials. I remember well the day an email arrived on my desktop from an artist named Shepard Fairey, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Independent of the campaign, Fairey had made a beautiful red-white-and-blue image of Obama’s face—he originally posted it as street art—and sent it in to us gratis. That poster, which resembles the iconic Che Guevara image, would become the viral visual sensation of the campaign.

The Rough Guide to New York City
by Rough Guides
Published 21 May 2018

You can also pop into the garden at Gallery Bar (1056 Broadway), which features several mural installations to enjoy alongside your beer and wings. Little Italy Mulberry St, north of Canal St. Along Little Italy’s main drag you’ll find the fruits of the L.I.S.A. Project (short for “Little Italy Street Art”), a nonprofit that has been successfully pioneering a Manhattan mural arts district. Here you’ll see pieces by Shepard Fairey (famed for his Obama “Hope” poster), Hanksy and an exultant, nebula-like work by Miishab, next to The Church of the Most Precious Blood (109 Mulberry St). West 57th Street and around Marlborough Gallery 40 W 57th St, between Fifth and Sixth aves 212 541 4900, marlboroughgallery.com; subway F to 57th St, N, R to Fifth Ave-59th St.

Eastern USA
by Lonely Planet

WATERFRONT & SEAPORT DISTRICT Boston’s waterfront offers an ever-growing list of attractions, all connected by the Harborwalk, a dedicated pedestrian path. Institute of Contemporary Art MUSEUM ( 617-478-3100; www.icaboston.org; 100 Northern Ave; adult/child $15/free; 10am-5pm Tue, Wed, Sat & Sun, 10am-9pm Thu & Fri) This dazzling museum snags rave exhibits by the likes of street artist Shepard Fairey. The building’s striking cantilevered architecture defines modern, and its floor-to-ceiling glass walls pop with Boston’s most dramatic harbor view. Admission’s free after 5pm Thursday. New England Aquarium AQUARIUM ( 617-973-5200; www.neaq.org; Central Wharf; adult/child $22/14; 9am-5pm Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm Sat & Sun; ) Centering on a four-story tank teeming with sharks and tropical fish, this aquarium is a magnet for kids.

USA Travel Guide
by Lonely, Planet

WATERFRONT & SEAPORT DISTRICT Boston’s waterfront offers an ever-growing list of attractions, all connected by the Harborwalk, a dedicated pedestrian path. Institute of Contemporary Art MUSEUM Offline map ( 617-478-3100; www.icaboston.org; 100 Northern Ave; adult/child $15/free; 10am-5pm Tue, Wed, Sat & Sun, 10am-9pm Thu & Fri) This dazzling museum snags rave exhibits by the likes of street artist Shepard Fairey. The building’s striking cantilevered architecture defines modern, and its floor-to-ceiling glass walls pop with Boston’s most dramatic harbor view. Admission’s free after 5pm Thursday. New England Aquarium AQUARIUM Offline map Google map ( 617-973-5200; www.neaq.org; Central Wharf; adult/child $22/14; 9am-5pm Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm Sat & Sun; ) Centering on a four-story tank teeming with sharks and tropical fish, this aquarium is a magnet for kids.