Shepard Fairey Concepts

The Warhol Economy

by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett · 15 Jan 2020 · 320pp · 90,115 words

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

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creativity also allows a dense support system to form and encourages the emergence of artistic communities. Or as the guerrilla-street-artist-cum-international-sensation Shepard Fairey put it, “I never really looked at the market. My stuff really resonated with the people I liked to hang out with—the skaters and

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of creative exchange, and 3.Creative review across the cultural economy. We’ll consider each of these in turn. Commodification and the Conquest of Cool Shepard Fairey is the man behind the “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign, which started out as a prank and became an international phenomenon. In

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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

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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

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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.” 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

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new cultural consumer goods—what the economist Joseph Schumpeter termed “creative destruction”19 (although, writing in 1942, he wasn’t talking about rap music). As Shepard Fairey recounted, “Chuck D came in last week and signed a print. I like Public Enemy and Public Enemy likes me and so there’s a

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[Posen] is friends with Claire Danes and the Schnabels. He didn’t come from Ohio, he grew up with a New York social network.” As Shepard Fairey explained it, “You can say it would be better if this sort of cool factor, the vanity, the trend aspects of it weren’t there

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points out that art museums have become out of touch with the city’s cultural climate and increasingly removed from the contemporary art world.22 Shepard Fairey explained, “I feel the institutions are behind the curve. The metabolism of popular culture—if you wait for the museums, the moment will pass you

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, Jennifer Vendetti Diane von Furstenberg Bonnie Young, senior creative director, Donna Karan Min Young, Chaiken Artists/Graphic Designers Claw Colt45 Will Cotton DAZE Wendy Dembo Shepard Fairey Futura Ari Joseph Ryan McGinness Bill McMullen Kenzo Minami Anja Mohn Morgan Phillips Lady Pink Ricky Powell Steve Powers Lee Quinones Semz Reuban Sinha Tobias

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2005 for an in-depth analysis of the role of gatekeepers in valuing and legitimating fashion. 3. Fairey 2006: 16. 4. For more information on Shepard Fairey’s artwork, Andre the Giant, and OBEY, please see Fairey 2006; Lemons 2000; the official OBEY Giant Web site: http://www.obeygiant.com/. 5. Fairey

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, March. ———. (2000b). “Cultural Industries and the City.” Cities Summary. Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores University, March. Fairey, Shepard. (2006). Obey: Supply and Demand: The Art of Shepard Fairey. Corte Madera: Gingko Press. Florida, Richard. (2000a). “The Economic Geography of Talent.” H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management. Carnegie Mellon University, September

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words

into public performance. Photographer Mark Hunter, a.k.a. the Cobrasnake, emerged as the medium’s first breakout star. Hunter, an assistant to street artist Shepard Fairey, shot blown-out candids of wild party scenes, launching his teenage girlfriend Cory Kennedy as “the internet’s first ‘it’ girl.” Reflecting on her rise

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poll, he was named both “top hero” and, by twice the vote, “top villain.” Obama’s campaign tapped into this shifting cultural zeitgeist. Street artist Shepard Fairey’s “Hope” poster became the defining image of 2008, reimagining political iconography through the lens of pop art. Viral videos like “Barack Obama-sistible” and

Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation

by Sophie Pedder · 20 Jun 2018 · 337pp · 101,440 words

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

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The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

by Astra Taylor · 4 Mar 2014 · 283pp · 85,824 words

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

Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity

by Currid · 9 Nov 2010 · 332pp · 91,780 words

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

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine

by Peter Lunenfeld · 31 Mar 2011 · 239pp · 56,531 words

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

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

by Janette Sadik-Khan · 8 Mar 2016 · 441pp · 96,534 words

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

New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--And How to Make It Work for You

by Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms · 2 Apr 2018 · 416pp · 100,130 words

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

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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

Eastern USA

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/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

USA Travel Guide

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/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