Limited Edition Shepard Fairey Prints

As we previously announced on this blog, we have some pretty apt and snazzy new cover art for George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm and I am delighted to announce that Shepard has taken time out from his busy schedule of shows in Washington D.C, as well as his campaigning for Obama, to produce, sign and number 200 prints of each of these covers.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I should point out that I’m a big fan of Shepard Fairey. My older brother Simon introduced me to his work when he bought me the “Greetings from Iraq” print for my birthday a couple of years ago. This marked an ironic and un-art-related personal turning point in the nature of our brotherhood, as for years when we were growing up he hoarded all his cool stuff away and would never let me in on his slightly more grown up world of 18-certificate films and explicit lyrics cassette tapes (I’ll never forget the coup of sneaking into his room and secretly recording his Public Enemy albums).

Anyway, digressions aside, his Nighteeneightyfouria exhibition at Stolen Space last year was fantastic and among all the great works on display, I’d have to say this little number was my personal favourite.

So, after months of back and forth, the prints have finally arrived, and they look great. They will be available exclusively from the Penguin website; you will not find them for sale anywhere else (at least not yet) because there are only 200 sets in existence.

To get hold of yours, before John Hamilton and his Art Department snaffle them all up, you’ll need to check back here next week for more information.

** Update: available now, here **

Matt Clacher
Literary Marketing Executive

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Comments

[Canvas Prints Guy]

Shepard Fairey is amazing, meant to catch the interview yesterday on the Rachel Maddow Show but missed it, doh.

So how many minutes were these available for before they sold out? ;-)