The Post and Courier

Sunda,y, January 14, 1996 Charleston, SC “Artist captures attention with sticker based on Andre” by Nicholas Drake Special to The Post and Courier The most difficult task any artist faces is capturing the public’s attention. With so many vying for even a fractional moment of attention, few ever get Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame. Charleston-born Shepard Fairey [...]

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Blue Print

March 2001 T-shirts The clothes that we perceive as the basics of every wardrobe were once faint glints in a dressmaker’s eye. The T-shirt is one example. More than any other item of clothing it is directly indicative of a person’s individuality, the graphic indication of a person’s inner life. From ‘Slipknot’ T-shirts on teenagers to [...]

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Observer Eccentric Newspaper

Thursday May, 3 2001 Detroit Street art, pop art, wind up behind CPOP’s doors By Stephanie Angelyn Casola Staff Writer Shepard Fairey never met obey giant. He wasn’t even a fan of the World Wrestling Federation’s most famous face. But the 31-year-old San Diego street artist made a name for himself by spreading the late wrestler’s image across [...]

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The Finger

by Rick Barrs 07/01/99 OBEY the Giant! Huh? Was The Finger dreaming? This digit stopped by Oki Dog at Willoughby and Fairfax on a recent weekend to grab some post-2 a.m. grub and ease the effect of all the Jack Daniels it had imbibed. Standing on the corner, waiting for its weiner, it looked toward Santa Monica, [...]

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Growling Wolverine

The obey giant is Back, and he brought a Posse (E) March 9, 2001 by: Vy Tran Staff Writer Michaelangelo had the sixtine chapel, Fitzgerald had the Great Gatsby, and now, we have “The Posse.” Started by Shepard Fairey of San Diego, this new art of sticker propaganda has been growing throughout Southern California. Huge Murals of [...]

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EnterActive Weekly

April 4, 2001 Author: Moleski, Charles. Source: Art Papers v. 23 no3 May/June ‘99 For all you hip people out there in the know about Shepard Fairey and what he has accomplished since creating a small sticker in 1989 need to go check out the “Obey: Shepard Fairy poster exhibition going on now through Friday, April 13th [...]

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Proof Magazine, 2, 2001

By Per Valsinger OBEY PAUL FRANK Californienbaserade klÅ“ddesignern paul frank började tillverka t-shirts och accwsoarer hemma i garaget för en handfull Ã¥r sedan. Till en början sÃ¥lde han bara till vÅ“nner och bekanta, och trots att paul frank nu Å“r ordentligt etablerad hÅ“nger hans slogan “paul frank is your friend” fortfarande med. Apan Julius och hans gulliga [...]

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Blk/Mrkt Inc.: Bombing For Corporate America

CMYK Magazine, 14 / Early Spring 2001 by Lynda Twardowski Chances are, you don’t know Fairey. But you probably have seen some of his work. As the one-man militia behind the “Obey Giant” campaign, Fairey despite seven arrests has taken it upon himself to plaster the world with stickers bearing a very frightening resemblance to the famed [...]

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The Oak Park Talon 3

March 9, 2001 “Obey: Giant” Fad Takes Over American Teens By Dan Wedge Any person living in Oak Park, assuming the have not been living under a rock or in a hole, surely, upon sight, would recognize the leering face of “The Giant.” The grotesque black and white face, staring down at people from street signs, building [...]

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MICRO PUBLISHING NEWS

December 2000 Balancing Act San Diego’s Blk/Mrkt strives for credibility on the street and in the conference room by Alison Blasko, associate editor A graffiti artist tagged the electrical box across the street from San Diego-based design firm Blk/Mrkt, changing the letter “N” to an “M” on the familiar “Post No Bills,” making the sign read “Post Mo [...]

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Ray Gun Magazine #70

August, 1999 “Fairey’s use of bold, simple graphics and bright spot colors has influenced campaigns targeted towards the ‘underground subculture’ demographic, and recently, he signed on as a consultant with Airwalk. (But only, the artist pointed out, after he heard through the grapevine they were intentionally aping his style and complained.) Fairey’s graphic design company was [...]

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Is Anyone Listening?

The Industry Standard. Listen.com set out to become the Web’s most comprehensive directory for digital downloads. Then Napster came along. By Hane C. Lee As recently as this spring, Listen.com seemed ideally positioned to lead the digital music revolution. The company had secured the backing of the Big Five music labels - the only digital music service that [...]

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The Pelican

(University of Western Australia Student Newspaper) Australia, October 18 2000 “Incitement to Riot?” by Cliodhna Quigley Andre Roussimoff, aka obey giant, was a 7′4″, 520 lbs. professional wrestler who won hearts for his starring role in The Princess Bride. He may have died in 1993, but he still happens to be the face of one of the [...]

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Question: What’s the deal with the cops?

Tokion magazine September/October 2000 Manufacturing Dissent by Shepard Fairey Why would anyone want to enter a profession that is dangerous, does not pay that well,a and whose members are generally hated by anyone who likes to have a good time and isn’t given the privilege of immunity by working for some division of the government? Could it [...]

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University of Oregon

by Chad Verly, Sept-October 2000 A stark face and its ominous glare confronts you from a bus stop bench. On the side of a nearby mailbox, it appears again with the challenging word, Obey. Giving the sticker a second glance, its meaning escapes you. Intuitive viewers might recognize the face as the late [...]

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Minneapolis Star Tribune

May 26 By Jim Adams “Artists and vandals // As Minneapolis confronts a growing graffiti problem, officials say arts organizations that promote spray-can art are part of the problem.” A swirling collage of chaos and color inundates the walls outside Intermedia Arts on a busy south Minneapolis thoroughfare, trumpeting the bright abstract designs and stylized signature “tags” of [...]

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College Hill Independent

1996 By Ellen Welch A Giant Spectacle RISD grad’s sticker campaign sends shockwaves throughout America Observant pedestrians in Providence will notice scraps of colored paper, bearing cryptic messages and images, plastered to the parking meters, telephone poles, and sidewalks of the city. The most insidious of these water-stained, mass-produced images must be the lumpy, hollow-eyed face of [...]

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Slamm magazine

March 22, 2000 By Dave Good Shepard Fairey On Graffiti, Breaking the Law, and the Meaningless of Meaning. I close my notepad and turn to go. The detective rises slowly, snaps off his desk lamp, relights his cigar, and opens the door. “Oh — just one more thing,” I say before I leave his putrid office. “That guy — [...]

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