Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Rizzoli is pleased to bring back into print Shepard Fairey's first book, originally published in 2009, which showcases Fairey's work from his early OBEY Giant campaign and his prodigious print output up to his seminal Obama HOPE poster.
Shepard Fairey helped catalyze a movement from his unique vantage at the intersection of art, popular culture, and design, and this tome documents it. Readers learn about the roots of the omnipresent OBEY street art campaign, his design practice and prolific gallery exhibitions, and the origins of his street art/activism. Fairey's first book pulls no punches, and all areas of the enigmatic artist's work and travels are highlighted within it. Supply & Demand presents his exhibitions, posters, flyers, silk screens, and stickers, as well as documenting his high-altitude pursuits, citations, and police beatings. It also includes a poster. For both longtime fans wanting the early collection and those just curious to know what this OBEY business is all about, Supply & Demand is the answer.
Synopsis
Whip-smart, and with a ripped-from-the-headlines attitude, this book is a call to arms, demonstrating the unique ability of graphic design to speak truth to power.
Part personal history, part design philosophy, and part advocacy, this volume showcases the arresting work of Oliver Munday. Employing humor and menace in equal measure, Munday wields graphic design as a tool of empowerment, activism, and resistance. Drawing from the history and utility of twentieth- century agitprop, from Russian Constructivism to the Black Panthers, Munday updates a timeless medium for the social media age with his stark and often unsettling imagery.
Drawing on the madness of the 24-hour news cycle, Munday's work has been featured on the op-ed pages of the New York Times, the New Yorker, Time Magazine, and the Atlantic. Munday exploits a digital platform to poke fun at the 2016 presidential election, renounces warfare in the age of drones, and examines the tragic legacies of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, offering a perspective that must not be overlooked. His design, reflecting influences from Paul Rand to Globe Poster, champions a think more, design less philosophy with the ultimate goal to provoke contem-plation and even meaningful action.