It was inevitable I suppose, Shepard Fairey has sold out and entered the main stream.
Banner up at USLevi’s.com announcing their collaboration with Shepard Fairey.
Levi’s where the rule of law and American patriotism is thread bare.
Shepard Fairey Slim Straight 514™ Jeans – Global Destruction
What is the subtext of “global destruction” and the American flag hung upside down end to end? Personally, I don’t care for the image that comes to mind.
Shepard Fairey T-Shirt – Spray It
"Visual Disobedience Obey Go Forth Think & Create Paint & Destroy
Hey kids! Be a creative criminal! Destroy your surroundings with graffiti! Forget pride and self worth, nothing says disobedience more than trashing your own neighborhood.
So it would be cool with Levi’s if I sprayed graffiti all over one of their brick and mortars, as long as I was sporting this t-shirt? After all their marketing it is an endorsement…correct?
To Levi’s credit they do not mention Obama. Shepard rose to fame after he created the now infamous Obama propaganda Hope poster, an iconic image known worldwide. But their target demographic if you will, is aimed at the youth who bought into Hopey-Changey.
I guess if Levi’s wants to team up with a plagiarist that is their trip.
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
[ Left: Still from director Michael Anderson’s 1956 film adaptation of George Orwell’s cautionary story of a dystopic future, 1984. Right: Fairey unmistakably stole his image from the "Big Brother is Watching You" propaganda posters used in Anderson’s film, without crediting the source.
Most well known for his “Obey Giant” street posters, Shepard Fairey has carefully nurtured a reputation as a heroic guerilla street artist waging a one man campaign against the corporate powers-that-be. Infantile posturing aside, Fairey’s art is problematic for another, more troubling reason – that of plagiarism. [...]
Many more examples at above link.
H/T whyskygyrl_MI
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