Shepard Fairey, is a well known Los Angeles-based, contemporary artist who created the iconic Barack Obama's "Hope" poster. The Obama illustration was seen replicated in thousands of shirts, buttons, and signs for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
Shepard Fairey gained notoriety for creating the “Andre the Giant” infamous street art campaign and Obey (clothing company) fame. Shepard Fairey also designed the portrait of President Barack Obama featured on the cover of Time Magazine's "Person of the Year" issue last month and designed the official Inaugural Poster for President Barack Obama, the inaugural posters are selling for $500...
Shepard Fairey, was a guest in "The Colbert Report" which aired on Janurary 15, 2009. Enjoy...
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I've been wondering how Shepard Fairey came up on that gig. I'm sure he hustled for it, but because this was a presidential campaign, I found it surprising at first that Obama's team gave the campaign a green light being that Shepard can easily be labeled a criminal. Nonetheless I thought it was cool to see a street artist like Shepard be one of the folks who made a huge contribution to Obama's victory.
and here i thought he was making bank... oh i've been fooled.
The video can no longer be seen (aw man).
But I always thought the design campaign Fairey came up with was brilliant. It's like pop art now... everyone is replicating it, just like how it was when everybody was into Andy Warhol.
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