Poster Art Posts

Psychedelic vector illustration of the Lizard King, Jim Morrison. Music, the changing social climate and consciousness expanding drugs were major factors in the success of psychedelic art in the sixties. Graphic artists and illustrators used the psychedelic style for popular bands as The Doors, Grateful Dead, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Byrds.

Best known as the artist who designed the iconic “Hope” poster for the Obama campaign, Frank Shepard Fairey is the mastermind behind “Obey Giant”, a populist “experiment in phenomenology”. To make the Obey Giant project one of the biggest art campaigns ever, Fairey put out countless spray paint stencils in the streets, 20,000 posters and over a million stickers. Today, the “Andre the Giant” image and “Obey giant” logos are true cultural icons, surfacing in exhibitions, TV shows and films.

Since the late eighties, Obey Giant has become a true urban icon and cultural phenomenon. The artworks, posters and prints that Shepard Fairey makes under the flag “Obey”, are influential and controversial symbols of modern pop art.