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Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Graphic design
The seminal artist's recent art and poster works, and his
triumphant return to his street-art roots with murals, all in work
never before published. Shepard Fairey rose out of the
skateboarding scene, creating his Andre the Giant Has a Posse
sticker campaign in the late '80s, and has since achieved a
mainstream recognition that most street artists never find.
Fairey's Hope poster, created during Obama's 2008 presidential
campaign, is arguably the most iconic American image since Uncle
Sam. Fairey has become a pop-culture icon himself, though he has
remained true to his street-art roots. OBEY: Covert to Overt
showcases his most recent evolution from works on paper to grander
art installations, cross-cultural artworks, and music/art
collaborations. The book also includes his ubiquitous streetwear
and chronicles his return to public artworks. His signature blend
of politics, street culture, and art makes Fairey unlike any other
subculture/street artist working today. This book showcases the
significant amount of art he has created the last several years:
street murals, mixed-media installations, art/music events,
countless silk screens, and work from his extremely successful OBEY
brand.
Sutnar's brilliant structural systems for clarifying otherwise
dense industrial data placed him in the pantheon of Modernist
pioneers and made him one of the visionaries of what is today
called "information design." Visual Design in Action is a snapshot
of Sutnar's American period (1939-1976), and includes graphics for
Carr's Department Store, advertisements for the Vera Neumann
Company, identity for Addo-X, and other stunningly contemporary
works. He is best known for his total design concept for the Sweets
Catalog Service and lesser known for introducing the parenthesis as
a way to typographically distinguish the area code from the rest of
a phone number. Visual Design in Action is a testament to the
historical relevance of Modernism and the philosophical resonance
of Sutnar's focus on the functional beauty of total clarity. This
reprint of Visual Design in Action (originally published in limited
quantities in 1961) is as spot-on about the power of design and
"design thinking" as it ever was.
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