Contest: Win Limited-Edition Shepherd Fairey Poster Art From His New Collection for Levi’s
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Shepherd Fairey is doing a live art installation in Times Square at 7PM Thursday night to kick off the launch of his new collection for Levi’s. The eight pieces in the line are inspired by Fairey’s personal stash of Levi’s with silhouettes, finishes and the smallest distressed details taken from his favorite true blues, including this hooded denim jacket. We have 10 limited-edition posters of artwork featured in the collection—all doubled sided—to give away. We’ll have images of the posters up for grabs after the jump tomorrow—hit us in the comments with your actual email address to win.
Obama Has a Posse (if he wants one)
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Listen, we haven’t thought of Shepherd Fairey as anything other than a conniving businessman since 1996, but his latest works have us thinking maybe he’s appealing to a higher power for redemption, namely President-Elect Barack Obama. Obviously, his red, white and cream portrait of Obama became the signature image for the campaign and has since been chosen not only for Time Magazine’s Man/Person of the Year cover but also as the official poster for Obama’s inauguration. But, lest he be deemed some sort of short-timer, Fairey has taken it upon himself to design a poster for dog adoption, a cause that has suddenly become close to Obama’s heart, and now, the “urban subversionist” is luring middle class Americans with fat stimulus checks to Saks Fifth Avenue with a spring campaign that (surprise) borrows heavily from the Productivist posters of Alexander Rodchenko. Dog-loving materialist Socialists! Subverting our checkbooks! We don’t even know what to say about this anymore: We love dogs but “Want This!” seems kind of completely freaking nuts.
