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Auction Block: Kobe Bryant Gets the Obama Artistic Treatment

By Eric Angevine

Monday, February 9, 2009

Most Americans know the name Shepard Fairey from the successful presidential campaign of Barack Obama (or the police blotter). The artist's red and blue rendering of the then-candidate's face over the word "Hope" became the defining image of Obama's presidential bid. How does a graphic designer follow up such a defining moment? By giving the same treatment to L.A. Laker Kobe Bryant. Naturally. The colors are different, with KB24 rendered in all his purple-and-gold glory, but the look of th ...

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