Posted by Geoff June 12, 2008
I do love me a bit of Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) to the extent I did my A Level English thesis on political imagery and learnings from his books. Yes thank you, I am a nerd! I also got an A so in yr face lol!
I do love me a bit of Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) to the extent I did my A Level English thesis on political imagery and learnings from his books. Yes thank you, I am a nerd! I also got an A so in yr face lol!Anyhow Obey master Shepard Fairey has put together these covers for the latest editions of George Orwell's classic totalitarian and dystopian tales, 1984 and Animal Farm. I'm 50/50 on this....having seen Shep's work in Virgin megastores and now this he's transcended his origins as a street artists/agent provacteur to numerous corporate gigs which dilutes his message.
But, these covers look very nice and definitely match the content (obv when you consider he's done "Big Brother" posters based on some of the film imagery before) and if it means drawing a younger generation to the work of one of England's finest authors then really it can't be all bad despite my misgivings. These new editions should be available soon at http://www.penguinbooks.co.uk/Categories:
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