Shepard Fairey is a very talented contemporary artist who actually created the “Obama Hope” poster for his campaign. In 19885 he attended a private college preparatory school, Porter Gaud, in Charleston, SC before switching to Wando High School. His senior year, he transferred across the country to an art school in California where he officially graduated in 1988. For college, he majored in Illustration at Rhode Island School of Design. There,, he created ‘Andre the Giant has a Posse’ and made his first poster with Andre, and he graduated in 1992 with his Bachelors in Arts in Illustration. Three years later, Fairey had a few full time employees and then he moved to California to work with Andy Howell for Giant Distribution. He worked with Dave Kinsey, Phillip De Wolff, and Andy Howell and soon after he met his future wife, Amanda Alaya, who he had been working with. Fairey and Kinsey split and Fairey renamed the company to Studio Number One. He put all his work into a book called Supply and Demand and it’s in its third edition. He is happily married to Amanda.
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