He Might Be Giant: Shepard Fairey
Question: Is Shepard Fairey not a hypocrite for commenting on those skateboarder kids who slapped corporate logo's all over their boards and who then turned around and now markets to those same kids? He performs a service that is exploiting his knowledge and understanding of the graffiti subculture and selling it to the highest bidder. Sure he's exposing kids to the craft, but is the message right?
Guerrilla Street Postering: Civil Disobedience in Los Angeles
Lovely somewhat romanticized story of urban street culture. It reminds me a lot of when I was 17 and we used to tag downtown Houston all of the time. Between running from the cops, someone's car getting set on fire, and almost getting stabbed by a homeless guy at burger king I called it quits haha.
I don't know if I have a question for this one so much as a comment. I can't help but disagree with his statement about how making art can't change the minds of people who see it. The impact might not be so clear and evident but I think with the right message and the right amount of exposure it can still spark ideas in peoples minds. Granted a great deal of people ignore graffiti now because either its so coded they don't get it or the environment its in so saturated with graffiti its invisible. Even if it hits home with one person the message should be a success. Unless they're just like the corporations counting the views, votes, and purchases. I thought it wasn't about that? Hmm.
Adbuster Veronique Vienne Interviews Kalle Lasn
This is brilliant: "We designers are in the unique position—design being so new—of still being able to shape our culture as it grows. We can carve out a soul for it beyond its current commercial masturbation. I think true cost is something we can live by, explain to our kids, put into our professional code of ethics. It's something we can hang our profession on"
I'm just going to ask about this: Considering the true cost example should we as designers and maybe as members of AIGA push for some kind of ethical practice of design in the long term? Would it divide the design world into two parts? Ethical and Commercial?
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