If you missed it, see the Academy Award winning short, Nicolas Schmerkin’s Logorama here. Reinventing the homicidal clowns genre, it’s cop movie meets Walmart CEO acid trip as Ronald McDonald rampages through a universe compiled entirely of logos and company avatars. Check the Shepard Fairey posters at 5:35, fitting quite snugly into the capitalism-inspired flash-animated hell.
Calling all richies! Pony up for this auction and get a portrait sitting with Shepard Fairey. I think (?) it means you’ll have your picture taken, duotoned, $-patterned and wheatpasted. Read more »
Fake TV show host and real US Speedskating team member, Stephen Colbert, unveiled his official Winter Olympics poster designed by none other than Shepard Fairey, proving that while the AP might own the rights to the ‘HOPE’ image, the graphic designing tycoon still owns the monopoly on that signature colorway.
It’s available for download (PDF doc) on the Colbert Report’s official website, but with the host actively encouraging supporters to “post it all over Vancouver!,” it carries this legal disclaimer: “Please observe all local laws and ordinances respecting the posting of bills.”
As you may have heard, Shepard Fairey, stole a photo owned by the AP and transformed it into the iconic “HOPE” image that became a dominating symbol for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and permeated pop culture, even making its way into the Smithsonian. But then the AP sued him and he lied, twice. Read more »
While everyone’s speculating about the details of Banksy’s new documentary, “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” and its connection to universally despised street artist Thierry Guetta aka Mr. Brainwash, Shepard Fairey openly discussed details of the soon to be premiered Sundance film in a 2008 video, while sitting on a panel at Bonhams auction house. So what did we learn? Quite a bit, but overall, Mr. Brainwash is the human, performance art version of this Banksy painting and that’s mostly Banksy’s doing. Read more »
Over the weekend, Sotheby’s auctioned off the half dozen artist-styled road bikes Lance Armstrong has been racing this year. Part of an awareness effort for the STAGES art show now on view at Deitch Projects, the Trek bike sale brought in more than $1.2 million for the cyclist’s cancer-fighting efforts. Read more »
If you didn’t venture to Times Square for Shepard Fairey’s Levi’s promotion last night, here’s what you missed. Inside a police barricaded corral, the fictionalizing street artist modeled a jacket from the collection and pasted up a mural celebrating the new corporate collaboration. Following the event, the poster collage was hung up outside the Levi’s store, also decked out with Fairey’s work, where it will remain through next Thursday.
Photos by Jacob Breinholt
For people who enjoy watching paste dry, the truth-challenged street artist Shepard Fairey will be installing his work at the Levi’s store in Times Square to celebrate his cross-branding endeavor with the jeansmaker: a collection of pre-painted, shredded and patched apparel mimicking Fairey’s own dirty denim. Enticing street art fanboys to buy into the commercial collaboration, “a series of four new poster designs,” actually all old prints updated with the denim company’s bootstrap-pulling slogan “go forth,” will be given out with the purchase of a piece from the Obey x Levi’s collection. The installation begins at 7 PM tonight, followed by Shepard’s promotional poster signing.
Admitting to covering up the source of his presidential HOPE portrait, Shepard Fairey said his lying and evidence destruction was merely an attempt to conceal his “mistake” of actually believing he had used a different image. The Associated Press has fired back, calling the graphic design-stealing artist’s story completely implausible and saying his alleged mistake was only an effort “to spin those bad acts in the best light possible to the Court and the public.” In a press release accompanying amendments to their countersuit, the AP also questions the integrity of Fairey’s dreams about George Clooney. Read more »
In a searing blow to counter culture and the integrity of his career, graphic design stealing artist Shepard Fairey admitted he lied about the source of his presidential HOPE portrait in his ongoing legal dispute with the Associated Press. In a statement released Friday on his website, he discussed the blatant thievery and apologized, kinda: Read more »
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