Both Dave and I agree this is Shepard’s best print for 2009 (our own opinion of course). Coming from a slight hint of Burmese in our blood, we got a lot of love for Shepard’s latest work. But for me personally, I’m in love with Shepard’s revisit to the same colorway as the ‘Peace Goddess‘. [...]
As reported from Van, OBEY teamed up with Levi’s for a capsule collection. The capsule collection includes eight pieces, two pairs of denim, two denim jackets, a flannel shirt and three tees, with a price point between $34.50 to $148. A special poster was released along with a live installation by Shepard Fairey in Times Square Levi’s flagship store last night.
In recent news, Shepard Fairey’s Obey brand has teamed up with Levi’s on a small capsule collection. As you can see in the gallery below, the collection consists of a flannel woven shirt, two pairs of denim in the 511 and 514 models, two jean jackets, and a few t-shirts. Shepard lends his touch on [...]
hepard Fairey will have a second solo retrospective, the Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand Exhibition, at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA on October 17th. The exhibition will run through January 21, 2010 to celebrate the artist’s work during the last two decades. Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the show will explore illustrations, screen prints, collages, works of wood, metal and canvas produced by Fairey.
Shepard’s collab with war photographer, Al Rockoff continues with the 5th Duality of Humanity print. I’m not certain how many Duality prints will complete the series. But each succeeding DoH print just gets better and better. A run of 450 prints measuring in at 18″ x 24″ will be available for $50 at a random [...]
Back in March, Shepard Fairey and the Obey crew placed Obey Giant posters outside of Home Slice Pizza in Austin, TX. Fairey also placed installations around other parts of Austin, including Lance Armstrong’s Bike Shop: Mellow Johnny’s. The video features a live footage of the installation at Home Slice Pizza during the South by Southwest music festival.
Available today with an undisclosed time frame is the latest Obey print in collaboration with graf sites, Guerilla One and The Seventh Letter. I love how the steel beam reps Guerilla One, but not sure what symbolizes TSL other than the hit on the bottom right? Not much info is given in terms of how [...]
Caught this last second, available today at noon PST is the latest OBEY poster. The artwork features J Dilla, who of course was one of the greatest music producers and unfortunately passed away from lupus on February 10th 2006, can’t believe its been 3 years already. The sales of this poster will benefit J Dilla’s [...]
The February 17th release of N.A.S.A.’s The Spirit of Apollo has five interchangeable covers featuring art by Sage Vaughn, The Date Farmers, Marcel Dzama, Shepard Fairey and Mark Gonzales. The Spirit of Apollo has cameo vocals by Lykke Li, Kanye West, Santogold, Karen O., Tom Waits, George Clinton, M.I.A. and other artists. Squeak E. Clean (Sam Spiegel) [...]
Shepard Fairey is back with another poster featuring President-elect Barack Obama’s official Inauguration poster. 10,000 posters have been printed for the historic moment on January 20, 2008.
Posted in November, I wrote about the Smithsonian Institute’s bid on Fairey’s original artwork of Barack Obama. As expected, the Smithsonian purchased Fairey’s original Obama artwork to include in [...]
