Shepard Fairey has created a new poster, “Defend Equality, Love Unites” to raise awareness and funds for the movement to overturn CA Proposition 8.
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illustration by Shepard Fairey
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Um, the 'defend equality, love unites' symbol is a fist? A couple of reasons not to have used a fist spring to mind.
Love Unites…with a fist?
As a graphic designer, I feel this image is the wrong message, yet it may be the evidence of the condition of the heart of this group of people. The first second upon seeing this poster, is the lasting one. Is your message hate? Is it your intolerance to democracy and other peoples views? Think about what it means to raise a fist in this manner. Strike out, defiance, anger, aggression, hate. Is this your message? Look at the lines he used in the shading of the fist, they are hard and abrasive edges, coming to a point.
One comment left by Ali, said it looks like a heart. I have to say she looked at the poster too long and “read” into it what you wanted it to say.
Although Shepard Fairey is a talented and gifted designer, he knows what he is doing. As with any good designer, his images are deliberate, and choosing this post-modern style of poster is indicative of the communist era. He uses red in just about all his works. What does the red symbolize, not in just our culture but others? Think.
I don't give Mr. Fairey the same credit as the previous author. I believe the entire aesthetic to be wrong for the campaign, and to be hopelessly generic. There is nothing that seperates this piece from anything else the artist has produced. Additionally, the thick cuts in the shading on the hand reference wood block prints. This pattern is pretty wrecked by the tiny detailed Fairey logo in the corner. It's just boring, generic, mass marketed design once again.
The guy is a pastiche-artist, lacking any real creative skill himself he copies political posters designed by others – often unknown artists – and calls them his own. A true fucking idiot.