So me and my fiance lady E went for a walk. We live basically a block away from the Walker Arts Center sculpture garden, and we’d never been there before together, and she’d never been there at all! So we went! Along the way there were many shapes. Lots of green tones. Some glass, a bit of metal, and grassy floors. Through the sculpture garden we went, then back around the area, around and through. On the way back we took some cool pics of graffiti, or rather paint splashing, I’m sure you’ll agree.

These photos are all taken in the general area of the Walker and toward Loring park. The last picture you see is of the apartment where we stay, shown for contrast. Pay attention to the aforementioned splasher, otherwise known (to us) as the dripper. It’s paint dripped as street art. Very pretty.

Then look for nice shapes, excellent arrangements, and in general a short look at the garden, good for peeking if you want to ever visit yourself. The work Spoonbridge and Cherry is of course the most iconic work along the whole trip, and is basically included by law in any collection of photos of Minneapolis. Any trip done right.

Please feel free to use these photos for any project for a school project, work project, etc, with some form of attribution, contact me if you’d like something in a bigger size.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies sculpture category.

Soon there will be a rather epic show. It will be in New York on Wooster Street, it’ll be works by Shepard Fairey, and it’ll be hosted by Deitch Projects. “May Day” is the theme, and in several epic canvasses you will see the epicness of the epicness. But before that, there’s a whole lotta prep. Lucky for all, Furlong from the Obey Clothing line went up to the secret lab in the past few days and snuck in a few lovely black and white pics.

Went up to the deuce last week to shoot a little. Other then getting verbally bashed for my mustache, it was a nice day. thxs guys! – F

Behold the excellence! Those flag works are going to be fabulous.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies painting category.

Hello Spinal Tap Anvil Antwoord. You see back stage. This project right here is a photo collection taken on tour with two German bands (Bosse and Frida). The photographer has the name Heinrich Holtgreve and is really good at taking photos and making one photo tell the story of the whole space at once (or lack of story if that’s the case, if you know what I mean.) This set’s meant to show through documentation that touring with a band’s definitely not all glamourous diamond baths and sex with dollar bills and cheese snacks. Definitely not. Take this journey and smell the glove.

9 Pigmentprints / 100x150cm
2009

It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll. I’m in love with photographs of generally dirty or poorly kept spaces in buildings. What a simple wonder it is to see where people have left things. Drawings on walls, stickers filling mirrors, stains and burns.

These heavily trodden places have a more than invaluable stash of cultural information smashed into them. How to harvest it though is the question and the quest.

Holtgreve does well.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies bad taste category.

Thanks to well-written fellow collector of lovely ideas Yorath Roth from Letters from Berlin, I’ve re-discovered my favorite sticker from my travels overseas! I live in Minneapolis now, and my trip was to England (Alnwick, London), Scotland (Edinburgh), France (Paris), and Italy (Rome). More than likely I found this in either Rome or Paris. I believe it was Paris. There was a bit more graffiti there than in Rome if I’m not mistaken.

In celebration of this discovery, this post is a small compilation of photos of the stickers I put up in Paris myself! Yay!

Ohh I bet you thought this page was gonna have something German in it! Well, jokes on you, basically everything has a little bit of German in it. What this post DOES have is the small group of photos I’ve got of the stickers of mine that were all the way up in Paris.

Circa 2005.

I may or may not have put squirrel stickers up in the bathroom of the Louvre, on the streets, in the hotels, on that 7 foot tablet in the middle of La Grande Arche de la Défense, and under the railing at the top of the Eiffel tower.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies graffiti stickers category.

I am not even kidding you. That is the name of the solo show happening right now by artist / designer / wildman WK Interact. His name might be just “WK” now cause that’s what it says on the ads, but still, “How to Blow Yourself Up!” That’s what’s up. In this post is a basic rundown of everything that’s in the show. I recommend definitely GOING to the show though also because everything is so sculptural and needs to be seen IRL.*

*IRL = in real life. Reals.

WK
How to Blow Yourself Up
Opening Reception
November 7th / 8-11PM
November 7th – December 5th

SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS GALLERY
1331 W. SUNSET BLVD
LOS ANGELES 90026
t.213.213.0078
INFO@SUBLIMINALPROJECTS.COM
TUES — FRI: 1-6 PM
SAT: NOON – 5PM

Keep your eyes open especially for ingredients such as Madness and Intensity

99 Crosby Street
Mixed Media Assemblage
(Salvaged Door, Caution Barracade, Electrical Socket, Wires, Acrylic,
Enamel and Mayhem)
82” h x 68” w

“Emergency”
Mixed Media Assemblage
(Former Studio Door, Chainsaw, Boxing Mask, Air Pump, Alarm, Mischief,
Readiness, and Revolution)
89”H x 38” W

“Trap”
Mixed Media Panel Assemblage
24”H x 72” W

“Double Attack”
Mixed Media Panel Assemblage
24”H x 72” W

“Lock Yourself”
Mixed Media Panel Assemblage
24”H x 60” W

“Jump Out”
Mixed Media Panel Assemblage
24”H x 72” W

“Caution”
Mixed Media Panel Assemblage
36”H x 72” W

“Blow Yourself Up 4”
Modfied Skate Deck
Circuit, Synthetic Dynamite, Severity
36”H x 16” W

“Blow Yourself Up 1”
Modfied Skate Deck
Pipe Bomb, Battery, Resistance
36”H x 17” W

“Blow Yourself Up 3”
Modified Skate Deck
(Pipe Bomb, Trigger, Madness)
36”H x 18” W

“Blow Yourself Up 2”
Modified Skate Deck
(Dynamite, Alarm, Trigger, Circuit, Danger and Invasion)
36”H x 16” W

“Blow Yourself Up 5”
Modified Skate Deck
(2-Way Radio, serigraph, intensity)
36”H x 14” W

“Ex Cop”
Mixed Media Assemblage and supplemental panels
107”H x 76” W

WK
“Ex Cop”
Acrylic, Enamel, and Ink on Natural Canvas
72”H x 72” W
(this last one is the canvas face, I have a feeling maybe that it’s not titled Ex Cop – might be a mistake)

I will take the blue “Ex Cop” (shown below) if you want to buy me one. That would be fine with me. Everything else you’ll have to match up yourself or go to the show. I am encouraging you to go to the show!

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies DESTRUCTION category!

Holy crap I’m totally pumped up for this insane event. It’s gonna be next week, November 12, in West Hollywood. If any of you folks wanna go there and take a bunch of photos for us to post, we’d definitely shoot a sticker+fun pack your way for the trouble.

Look at all the celebs and their artworks!

Please join us for this special event to help raise funds and awareness for Marriage Equality. The event will present the Love Unites x Shepard Fairey Project featuring an Auction of celebrity customized Love Unites screenprints and an original Love Unties fine art piece by Shepard Fairey.

November 12th, 2009
8:00pm – 11:00pm
DJ Sets by Shepard Fairey and Ryan Kenney

Presented by FAIR @
Andaz West Hollywood
8410 Sunset Blvd, LA, CA

$30 General Admission ($40 at the Door)
$100 VIP Admission ($125 at the Door)
Proceeds to Benefit Marriage Equality
Discounted Valet

OMG VIP for only $100 lulz. Open bar, dude!

VIP Admission more info
A VIP ticket includes gourmet appetizers, gift bags, 3 hours of open bar provided by Absolut, special pool deck access with cityscape views, up-close-and personal viewing of select celebrity customized prints, cabana beds and more. This price jumps to $125 at the door. Tickets are tax deductible since FAIR is an organization functioning under a 501c3 fiscal sponsorship agreement.

But it’s all tax deductible so spend wildly!

Hello! If your twitter name is one of the following, please Direct Message @design_junkies or email chrisb@worldfamousdesignjunkies.com for further details about your WINNINGS — @Hilldawgg @pufuu @IAMWASHONE @EricArt @mario_skato_ @AmberLena @SmashGordon @livingbunny @Aerophile @ADDEccentric @CarnivorousGnar @abitofmybrain — that said, some of you were easier to contact than others, so you’ve hopefully already received your further instructions. Have a sticky day!

http://worldfamousdesignjunkies.com/bits/obama-unicorn-contest/
Original contest post can be found right here.

This duo of images is officially part of the “Hero” craze, they being the cover of a “collectable” case for DJ Hero’s Renegade Edition. Eminem and Jay-Z have tracks on this edition of the game, and they hired Studio Number One to whip up a lovely image of these two legendary music making faces. No word on if the images will be produced anywhere else but on the DJ Hero ephemera, but DO expect them to maybe make an appearance in some fine art in the future, as Shepard Fairey like to explore all options with images once he’s done the illustration work. Colors, mediums, rubyliths, everything and anything.

Below you’ll find an extended collection of the portraits Shepard Fairey’s done inside and outside the Obey Giant street art campaign. The portrait making of Shepard Fairey started all the way back in 1989 and continues till today. Some portraits have the person as the subject matter (like Jay and Eminem above, Joey Ramone and the Notorious B.I.G. below), while some others have the portrait “hidden” in the poster (the Pretty Vacant poster below has a portrait of musician Marc Bolan (source being a record album with him on the cover: T. Rex’s 1972 “Solid Gold Action.”)

Check em all out!

This post from the World Famous Design Junkies Celebritarianism category.

Marc Bolan and others on Pretty Vacant Posters

Joey Ramone and the Notorious BIG

Subcomandante Marcos and Tupac Shakur

Michael Jordan and Barack Obama

Huey Lewis and Jimi Hendrix

Oh man I HATE IT when people are passive aggressive supreme. So much. So much do I hate such a thing. But I’ll tell you what I like. Green White and Black. As together as they should be, all day and night. Up in this project. It’s a ton of materials, like stickers, sticky-notes, and badges that allow YOU to make the most of your passive aggressive nature in just the most fantastic sticky-designish way possible!

Blame designer Ben Bours.

Complaint Department is a kit of materials that facilitate passive aggressive complaining. Instead of confronting someone, why not just use a witty sticker to let everyone know your grievances?

Completed at MICA

I would love to have any number of these things. This is some amazing ephemera. I’ve seen things SORT OF like this before, but a lot more chincy. This is high class P.A. punishment, straight from the hand of a typographer I’ll tell ya what.

This post is posted out of the World Famous Design Junkies experimental category.

EDIT: CONTEST OVER. Winners will be chosen soon and sent messages over twitter or email. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Hello and welcome, design world, to the first ever World Famous Design Junkies sticker giveaway! You see those stickers in the photo there? The ones that say a little something about Obama on a certain Unicorn? Yes. That is what we are giving away. You, yes YOU! could be the lucky winner of a 12pack of World Famous Design Junkies “Obama Ona Unicorn” stickers courtesy of our new best friend in the world, Sticker Robot!

So here’s the deal. Sticker Robot is running this competition thang where you think of a clever saying and submit it, hoping that it’s chosen, at which point you’ll win 500 stickers with that saying on them. WELL guess what happened? Writer Chris Burns (that’s me) of World Famous Design Junkies won on the very first week the competition was open!

And now we’re passing the savings on to you!

So to make a long story short (too late) all you’ve got to do is tweet! Get yourself a twitter if you don’t already have one, make sure you don’t lose access to that account incase you win, and just CLICK AND TWEET

Once you click that link, you’ll have the following entered into your twitter tweeter:

RT @design_junkies @stickerobot http://tinyurl.com/ykyfb2u Win a 12pack of Obama Unicorns from WFDJ!

Tweet that and you’ll be automatically entered! Easy as that.

If you’re chosen, you win 12 stickers, no strings attached, sent straight to your door!

END OF CONTEST IS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 AT NOON, winners are chosen at random, 12 packs of 12 will be given away, one pack can be won per person, shipping is free. If you’ve got any questions, ask them below. If not, get tweeting!

Oh my goodness stickers. In the history of stickerdom I’d say one name “sticks” out in my mind pretty prominently. Shepard Fairey. He’s made a giant career out of stickering and in the process has come in to contact with many an art partner. One of those big-timers was and is PEEL, a magazine for graffiti stickers.

In the process of creating a fantastic outlet for street artists such as Shepard Fairey, the creators of PEEL Magazine, Dave and Holly Combs, have lost their home. It’s time to pay them back. The print you see in this post is made by Shepard Fairey and all proceeds from the sale of the print go toward helping the Combs couple out. Dig it!

The Sticker Kit Print will so on sale 10/6 at a Random Time, Limit 1. Edition of 450, 18×24, S/N.

Dave and Holly Combs are wonderful people as well as the founders of PEEL Zine. They took the risk of following their artistic passion and have paid the price of losing their home. I created this print with and for them to raise money to help with their huge debt. PEEL has helped to support and grow the street art community and I believe they deserve to have the favor returned. Profits from this print go to help the Combs family. Please help out. -Shepard

The unveiling of exclusive OBEY x PEEL poster by Shephard Fairey for Peel Magazine (authors of MBP’s PEEL: The Art of the Sticker) will take place at the first Mark Batty Publisher (MBP) Urban Arts Fest: a full day dedicated to the thriving urban arts community MBP has advocated since its inception. With skateboard demos, live graffiti writing, installations, music and DJs, open bar dance party at night, and plenty of art and books for sale, there will be something for everyone! The non-profit beneficiary is Art for Progress, which supports rising multi-discipline arts in New York City.

PEEL! Another Shepard Fairey / PEEL collaboration is shown below also. It’s a rare example of Shepard Fairey printing on rag paper (also called “artists paper” because it’s thicker and “nicer” than the regular recycled stock). The one you see above “Sticker Kit Print” is printed on the regular recycled stock and is gonna be totally awesome.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies graffiti stickers category.

MORE INFO ON Mark Batty Publisher (MBP) Urban Arts Fest!!

WHERE:
Castle Braid, Bushwick, Brooklyn
114 Troutman Street btwn Central & Evergreen Ave
J, M, Z to Myrtle- Bwy/ M to Central Ave/ L to Morgan Ave

WHEN:
Saturday, October 3, 2009 All-Ages: 1pm-8pm. 21+ up: 8pm- 2am
Find more info at http://markbattypublisher.com/

Holy blizzardsmith this man is leaving. Erik Inkala. He is a graffiti artist here in Minneapolis and he is heading off to New York city with a big fat sendoff bash as set up by First Amendment Gallery aka Burlesque of North America. It’s sure to be a smelly bash! Apparently there’s going to be a crap-ton of artists involved in this show, and I have no idea where they are going to fit them all. Take a peek at this tiny space they’re going to smash artists into, then go to the show when it starts. Holy crap for god’s sakes.

E-rock-out? A going away/ Arty Party
New work by Eric Inkala and Friends

Saturday September 19th at First Amendment Arts
1101 Stinson Blvd (corner of Broadway and Stinson in NE Minneapolis), 55413
7-10pm
all ages
free admission

Show runs September 19 – October 20, 2009
First Amendment’s regular gallery hours: Weekdays, 12-5pm

First Amendment Gallery will host the send-off party for Minneapolis-based / Brooklyn-bound artist Eric Inkala, who was previously featured in shows, Almost Famous and Almost Homeless. The exhibition will feature new paintings by Inkala along with the work of 47 local artists that have inspired him during his time in Minneapolis. Join the party, see a lot of great art, and take the chance to wish Eric luck before he makes his move to New York.

Look at all these flim-flamming artists!

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Burlesque Design, Jodi Milbert, Drew Peterson, Isaac Arvold, Aaron Seymour-Anderson, Mk Larada, Diana Ross, Ted Salzman, John Grider, Louis N. Lapierre, Lewis Granger, Jeff Warner, Ben Olson, Jordon Daley, Ben Lafond, Keith Williams, Poohki, Much HM, Peter Bekke, Tucker Gerrick, Anthem Heart, Desk 2, Cecil Otter, Sam Englund, Hardland/Heartland, David Arnevik, Loren Purcell, Booka B, Miles Mendenhall, Adam Martin, Zach Kinsey, Kadi Kaelin, Mike Fitzsimmons, Jake Keeler, Vance Wellenstein, John Alspach, Skye Rossi, Keegan Wenkman, Tara Costello, John Harris, Michael Gaughan, Maria Juranic, Alice Berman, Anton Pearson, Carrie Thompson, and Jennifer Davis. PLUS Live musical performance by The Millionth Word and DJ sets from Paper Tiger and BRLSQOTHEQUE DJs.

At this moment I need to point out an important part of Erik Inkala’s work, something that’s rare in the street art circuit or whatever you call it: mutual respect. In this case Inkala is kind enough to avoid covering up the signs that are crucial to the parking ramp garage area. I got me one other example of this, and it’s from the other side around.

ANyway, be at that show! I bet there’s free stickers and junk.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies graffiti category.

There I was. On the internet. On the most hidden page of the Burlesque Design intarwebs. And I see it! The “Mystery Grab Bag.” I had to have it. And so I did. Soon after I clicked the button, (probably like 4 seconds later because Burlesque secret headquarters is basically a mile away from where I was living at the time in Minneapolis,) I had the box in my hands. It was a Mystery Box. And in it were graphically conscious treasures beyond my wildest type-setting sticker-ordering t-shirt-wearing weird-ass-junk-collecting dreamz…

MYSTERY GRAB BAG

Have you ever seen our office? It’s filled with all sorts of magical, amazing things. Send us ten dollars and we’ll send you a generous sampling of some of the stickers, doodles, flyers, magazines, CDs, and other weird crap we have up here. By ordering the Mystery Grab Bag, you agree to accept whatever we send you. No complaints, no returns.

Discover for yourself the sticker and Japanese candy fantasy before you. Be sure to check out the custom-made Chris hat made just for me because Chris Burns is my name. Shield your eyes from the brand new Burlesque Clown Posse sticker set. And be ware of the children when you sift through the Dre Day sticker pack.

And look at that AT&T answering machine. Yes.

This post is a part of the World Famous Design Junkies Pizza Party category.

Discover the magic!

As you’d have to have lived under a rock on the moon not to be aware already, Shepard Fairey took it upon himself to create an image of Barack Obama during the 2008 USA presidential election season. As you might also know, that image was made into several prints, banners, shirts, anything you can print on, the most influential of which was the HOPE poster. Since the first Obama image Shepard Fariey created, there’s been a whole big bunch of events and images worth noting between the two. Below you will find a complete collection of the Barack Obama x Shepard Fairey affair.

Let’s get started, shall we? Updates in this post start at the bottom and work their way up. This post was created on August 6th, 2009, at which time Shepard Fairey did a press release for the illustration he did for the August 2009 cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Each release below that goes further and further back in time. In between each update you may find random extras. Below the text is all the images you’ll ever need!

OBAMA SO FAR

It’s been six-plus months since Obama took office, and the Rolling Stone cover is the first image of Obama I’ve created in that time. As a candidate, his vision and his message of shared civic duty were inspiring, but as president he faces an unbelievable pressure to accomplish what he set out to do, despite the reality that he can’t do it alone. Much like my “Hope” image was intended to express his vision and his intellectual diligence, I also wanted this new image to convey his focus, but with the added weight and stress of responsibility. Whether media like the New York Daily News are looking to fan conservative flames with “liberals think Obama is the messiah” talking points, or just saying things like that to create juicy headlines, it should be obvious that this image is not about anything divine, but about dealing with the real world job at hand. While he is undoubtedly our leader, the question I placed inside the presidential seal “Will he take bold action or compromise too easily?” is one that I think we all need to ask about ourselves and what we’re doing to work toward what we believe in. The pitfalls of “politics as usual” aren’t reserved for politicians.

However, a lot can and will change. As Joe Strummer of The Clash once said, “The future is unwritten.” In my illustration I make reference to Gilbert Stuart’s famous unfinished portrait of George Washington to capture the idea that, although we’re quick to judge, it’s too early to tell how Obama’s presidency will turn out. Hopefully Obama and all of us who have stood behind him will do everything we can to fill in our incomplete future the way we’ve pictured it. – Shepard (August 6, 2009)

Shepard and Manifest Hope has a special treat for those that are attending the show. Shepard will be releasing a very limited quantity (150) of the “Hope” Obama paster… with one twist… He is signing them with an “09″ in recognition of the Inauguration. So be quick and maybe you’ll get lucky! -Arrested Motion (January 16, 2009)

In addition to hosting the Manifest Hope: DC Extravaganza, Shepard took the time to design the official Inauguaral Poster for President Elect Obama. The limited edition prints are available as we blog, so hurry and get your part of history! Don’t forget to visit the Manifest Hope: DC website to get the latest on the events during Inauragtion. -Manifest Hope (January 7, 2009)

According to extremely reliable sources from the Obama/Studio Number 1 camp, Shepard Fairey is in talks with the Smithsonian Institution to transfer a fine-art version of the Obama HOPE image to their National Portrait Gallery. If this deal goes down, the HOPE painting will be the “first official fine art rendering of the future president” in the Smithsonian collection. The painting in question is the one pictured above, having been displayed at least once at the “Regime Change” show at Irvine Contemporary.

I don’t need to mention that Shepard Fairey is a multiple convicted felon, do I?

This is neat. -A Tiny City (November 18 2008)

In order to do our part to help OBAMA get elected, we started a grassroots campaign on a street postering level and now the OBAMA HOPE image is now part of history. We produced and distributed over 30,000 posters to be placed in windows, front yards, and businesses. We like to think we made a little difference.

In the spirit of OBEY we have a few of these posters left over from the campaign and there is no need to have them postered on the streets anymore so we would like to offer them to you. The proceeds of these posters will be going to the ACLU. These posters are signed by Shepard and are $40. We only have a limited quantity left so when they go, they will be gone.

-OBEY (November 10, 2008)

TO THE WIRE

As we start looking toward the weekend… We are days away from the most important political event young people will most likely witness in their lifetime. And as the world changes, our country, too, is faced with the decision to move forward or stay in the past. For the next couple of days you will be continuously exposed to links, videos, and literature (on OBEYGIANT.com) that will help you decide which road our country should travel. We at OBEY believe in change and we hope you do to…

Check out this short film created by one of the animators of the Simpsons. http://whyobamafilm.org/
This or that… you may remember this classic, now revisited with an OBAMA twist. See video HERE
New Obama “VOTE” Print by Shepard Fairey, Only Available at BarackObama.com Purchase Print HERE

-Shepard (October 30, 2008)

MAD HISTORY

Check out this link to a plethora of parodies of my Obama HOPE poster. I’m very happy that the HOPE poster has become such a point of reference. One parody that is not included is something I consider a high point in my career for pop culture recognition. Mad Magazine’s new cover is a spoof of my Obama image. I loved Mad as a kid. I think Mad’s satire heightened my understanding of irony and hypocrisy. I’m very excited to be a part of Mad’s history.
-Shepard

http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex216oba/ex216oba.htm (October ?, 2009)

“I wanted to make an art piece of Barack Obama because I thought an iconic portrait of him could symbolize and amplify the importance of his mission. I believe Obama will guide this country to a future where everyone can thrive and I should support him vigorously for the sake of my two young daughters. I have made art opposing the Iraq war for several years, and making art of Obama, who opposed the war from the start, is like making art for peace. I know I have an audience of young art fans and I’m delighted if I can encourage them to see the merits of Barack Obama.” -Shepard Fairey (March 3, 2009)

THANK YOU, FROM BARACK OBAMA!

Check it out! I got a thank you note from Barack Obama. If he is elected, maybe I have a get out of jail free card. All kidding aside, I’m honored to be acknowledged by someone so important to the future of our country. Also, the Obama campaign asked me to do a poster illustration for sale on their site. It should be out next week on barackobama.com.

-Shepard (February 22, 2009)

At some point, this lovely machine was created by Paste Magazine to “Obamicon” pictures. Take a peek there for about a billion trillion ironic satiricalizations.

OBAMA BOOTLEG TEE

I did not design this shirt. I saw it in an ad in the back of Rolling Stone and contacted the company to see if they were donating any of the proceeds to Obama’s campaign. They are, so if you dig an Obey/Obama mashup you can get it at moewampum.com.

-Shepard (May 6, 2008)

OBAMA PHILLY

Sales of the Obama T-shirts through Upper Playground funded these bus shelter ads in Philly. You might be saying… “supporting a political candidate, paying for ads, what is Obey thinking?” Well, we’re thinking that helping to put Obama in office is one of the most subversive things we could be doing. To see for yourself, check out his policies at barackobama.com

-Shepard (April 1, 2008)

If you missed out on getting the hope and progress posters, you can still help out the obama campaign by printing out your own obama paster here. -OBEY (March 2, 2009)

UPDATE: Thanks for all those who bought the print in support of OBEY and OBAMA. Unfortunately, the print is sold out and we do not plan on producing another edition. The edition was released earlier today with great response. The PROGRESS screenprint was exclusively available through OBEY and the HOPE offset print will be distributed by the OBAMA Camp as an awareness campaign. (February 3, 2008)

I believe with great conviction that Barack Obama should be the next President. I have been paying close attention to him since the Democratic convention in 2004. I feel that he is more a statesman than a politician. He was against the war when it was an unpopular position (and Hillary was for the war at that time), Obama is for energy and environmental conservation. He is for healthcare reform. Check him out for yourself www.barackobama.com. Proceeds from this print go to produce prints for a large statewide poster campaign.

Thanks.

-Shepard (January 30, 2008

Thanks to the fine folks at TheGiant.org for basically ALL of the statistical information on the prints:

Obama BE THE CHANGE
Year: 2009
Run Size: 1000
Part of Set: none
Size: 24×36
Paper: unknown
Print Type: screen print
Release Date: 01/07/2009

HOPE (offset THIN)
Year: 2008
Run Size: unknown
Part of Set: none
Size: 24×36
Paper: Thin Stock
Print Type: Offset Lithograph
Release Date: 11/10/2008

Obama VOTE (small)
Year: 2008
Run Size: 5000
Part of Set: none
Size: 18×24
Paper: Thin Stock
Print Type: offset
Release Date: 11/17/2008

Obama VOTE
Year: 2008
Run Size: 5000
Part of Set: none
Size: 26×40
Paper: Thick Stock (white)
Print Type: offset
Release Date: 10/30/2008

Obama CHANGE
Year: 2008
Run Size: 5000
Part of Set: none
Size: 24×36
Paper: Thick Stock
Print Type: screen print
Release Date: 03/12/2008

HOPE (offset THICK)
Year: 2008
Run Size: 600
Part of Set: none
Size: 24×36
Paper: Thick Stock
Print Type: Offset Lithograph
Release Date: 02/24/2008

Progress (Small)
Year: 2008
Run Size: 400
Part of Set: none
Size: 9×12
Paper: Thick Stock
Print Type: Screen Print
Release Date: 04/02/2008

Progress (Large)
Year: 2008
Run Size: 350
Part of Set: none
Size: 24×36
Paper: Thick Stock
Print Type: Screen Print
Release Date: 01/30/2008

This post is posted in the World Famous Design Junkies idenity category because more than anything other than that Obama “o”, Shepard Fairey’s image defined this 2008 election. Obama HOPE was Shepard Fairey and thousands and thousands of voters holding up his poster. Behold a graphic movement from the hand of a graffiti artist.

So you’re up on Zines, right? Well super! You make a bunch of zines, right? I bet you do. Boy, have I got the project for you. It’s up on it. It’s hip. It is NOW. It is Zineswap. It collects and redistributes zine-type magazine from everywhere and sends them everywhere again! And in the middle of it all, they catalogue every issue that comes through their fingers!

Zineswap aims to be a resource through which people 
can swap their zines with one-another. It also aims to become a vast archive of contemporary zine publishing, existing as both an online catalogue and an annual exhibition.

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Fun! Also, for a site that’s the real deal in sticker trading, check out http://stickertraders.com/ – accept no substitute. Stickers from around the world.

Three instances here of the barf-faced boy sticker hanging out in Uptown Minneapolis. Blech. Multiple color combinations and multiple layers. See? Two out of three of these stickers have multiple layers of vinyl. See the other two below.

These are my favorite kind of stickers. The ones that speak aesthetically to everyone, and specifically to a few. Look at that little man! He is barfing for us all.

A lovely chin sticker fragment in Uptown Minneapolis. Just a chin and lips with maybe an american flag? Yeah. Post any info you might have on this particular moment in graphics in the comments. On that note – it’s interesting that this sticker might never have caught my attention if it were whole, especially given the amount of colors and complexity in it – usually graffiti stickers pop with less, not more, but! But. But since it is a bit cut up, it’s interesting. I wanna know now!

Oh my god! The huge manatee! I need a tip on what the rest of this sticker might be. Mail me up about that. This was found in Uptown Minneapolis near the in-and-out burger. Wait no, there is no In-and-Out in Minneapolis, or anywhere in Minnesota. That makes me kinda sad. On the other hand, there is the greatest pizza place in the world, Galactic Pizza.

This sticker all up in South MPLS. Uptown, near the Intermedia Arts building. Pink, blue, black, white for the MTV referential.

Search Graffiti for more graffiti related projects, mostly in Minneapolis, Minnesota.