Shepard Fairey is an American street artist and graphic designer born in 1970 who first gained attention with his Andre the Giant Has a Posse sticker campaign, begun in 1989 while a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, which evolved into the OBEY Giant brand and clothing line. He is best known for the red, white and blue Hope portrait of Barack Obama created for the 2008 presidential campaign, one of the most widely reproduced political images of that era, which led to a copyright dispute with the Associated Press that Fairey settled in 2011.
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In 1989, he designed the "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" (.
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Fairey became involved with art in 1984, when he started to place his drawings on skateboards and T-shirts.
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Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary artist, activist and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene.
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