Shepard Fairey is alot of things to people, a ggraffiti artist, street artist, graphic designer and illustrator. His work of Andre the Giant or Obey has become a worldwide street campaign which meanings simply are question everything according Fairey. As one of the big hitters in the street art world, similar to Banksy and others it is left to on lookers to question how far these artist can now go as their work is so well known and now might have lost any meaning or underlying message that it did have before everyone knew about it.
Fairey's Obey brand has spread world wide and now he profits off many T-Shirts designs coming out each month selling from £25-£35, the fact that Fairey is all for revolution against governments and ran a campaign called "anti-war anti-bush" maybe making all these clothes dilutes this message that he wants to put across and now has simply become a brand for consumers to buy from major high street stores.
Does his brand of clothing allow him to spread his work further than walls on the street and now uses people as canvas's walking around with his propaganda message on their chest? I'd like to think its this and not that he has lost direct with his art and ended up another faceless organisation churning out clothes to sell to a market already swamped by brands who simply want your cash.
If you don't no of Fairey's work, take a look into it.... http://obeygiant.com/
