Andre the Giant Has a Posse

"Obey Giant" redirects here. For the 2017 documentary film, see Obey Giant (film).
"André the Giant has a Posse" sticker on a stop sign

Andre the Giant Has a Posse is a street art campaign based on a design by Shepard Fairey created in 1989 while Shepard attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. Distributed by the skater community and graffiti artists, the stickers featuring an image of André the Giant began showing up in many cities across the United States.[1] At the time, Fairey declared the campaign to be "an experiment in phenomenology".[2] Over time, the artwork has been reused in a number of ways and has become worldwide. Fairey also altered the work stylistically and semantically into OBEY Giant.[3]

  1. ^ Schulte, Bret (August 9, 2002). "Obey Giant: The Mandate that Grabbed a Generation". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
  2. ^ "Cashiers du Cinemart Issue 6: The Andre Experiment". Impossiblefunky.com. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2010-09-19.
  3. ^ Shepard Fairey, "Supply & Demand: The Art of Shepard Fairey", pg. 35.