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Shepard Fairey / Saks Shopping Bags

by First name Last name on 01/13/2009 | 1 Minute Read

Via NY Times - The store hired Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the stylized Hope poster of Barack Obamathat became one of the most highly visible, though unofficial, imagesof the presidential campaign, to design its catalog covers and shoppingbags. They bear a rather unsubtle allusion to advertisements made inthe 1920s for state-run department stores in the Soviet Union.

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