This interview by Ben Arnon with Shepard Fairey and Yosi Sargent is really good.  I especially enjoy the insight into the print creation process, as referenced below.

Shepard Fairey on the Obama poster:

“Well, the way I’m used to doing things when I print up posters is I print some to sell and I print some to put up on the street. I fund the ones I put up on the street with the ones I sell. That way the whole thing is paid for and I’m perpetuating things on my own terms. I did that to get the ball rolling and then I was going to use the revenue from the first 350 posters to get more printed for a full statewide campaign. At first I was just thinking California because there was such a short amount of time left until Super Tuesday. But so quickly we saw that the demand was there so we started shipping the posters all over the country anywhere that hadn’t had a caucus or a primary yet.

Ben Arnon:

Those initial posters — the 350 to sell and 350 for the streets, along with the 4,000 you sent around to rallies — did they all read “Progress” or were they a combination of “Progress” and “Hope”?

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Poster Boy? It sounds like a sidekick to the manipuloster. What about Remixo?  NYMag profiles the anonymous subway ad remix artist.

via, c-monster

KAWS gets a nice personal profile in The Moment, right before his first show in ages opens at Emmanuel Perrotin in Miami.  More on the opening tomorrow…

Gothamist interviews SWOON, prior to her opening at Deitch Projects this Sunday.

photo: karenjeannette