A Brief Biography of Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey started off as a street artist. He would design stickers and posters and post them all around big cities. He later gained more notoriety when he design the infamous Obama HOPE poster. Since then he has had exhibitions and worked as a designer for organizations. He is also known for his OBEY campaign.
Famous Works
Research
Social Issue
I have decided to do "bully cops" as my social issue. With the recent killing of Kelly Thomas, I feel it is a problem that needs more light shed on it.
Colors, Trends, Words etc.
As these posters seem to typically glorify the subject of the portrait, I'm thinking that I'm going to do a Fairey style of Kelley Thomas with some kind of word like "abuse" under it. Or maybe I could flip the switch and have a picture of a cop and the word "bully" underneath, to show that they're bad bad people. The logos on these posters seem to be real simple too, I'm thinking maybe a police badge with some kind of unexpected symbol inside. For colors I might stick with the red and blue of the Obama poster just to juxtapose that familiar look with a different tone. If not though I would definitely use red, to symbolize the passionate response that these events have caused
I like the unity/variety in this package, you can tell that the designer didn't just copy the same graphic over and over, but created a specific, yet consistent graphic for each piece
This ones cool cause of the different ways they used the logo as a watermark and such