Shepard Fairey Has A Posse

A contemporary street art and culture crowd favorite for the last decade, Shepard Fairey has expanded his artistic scope and audience in recent years, most notably through a series of Barack Obama posters he created for this year's U.S. presidential election. But while the Obama project was not-for-profit, Fairey has performed the fine balancing act between art and commerce for most of his career. No where is this more evident than his commercial design agency Studio Number One. Nestled within L.A.'s hipster hood of Echo Park, Fairey's headquarters features his fine art gallery Subliminal Projects on the ground floor, while upstairs are offices for his Obey clothing brand and the design studio."We just tried to put together a collection of people with a similar vision to mine," says Fairey. "It sounds a bit egotistical but I wanted to surround myself with people I would get along with and who had a similar view on how art and design can work together, and were multi- dimensional people who have creativity coursing through every aspect of their life."

Shepard Fairey Has A Posse

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