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Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, illustrator and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene.

He first became known for his "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" (…OBEY…) sticker campaign while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), which appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News.

Andre the Giant Has a Posse is a street art campaign based on a design by Shepard Fairey created in 1989 in Providence, Rhode Island.

Distributed by the community, the stickers featuring an image of André the Giant began showing up in many cities across the US.

At the time Fairey declared the campaign to be "an experiment in phenomenology".

Over time the artwork has been reused in a number of ways and has become worldwide.

At the same time, Fairey altered the work stylistically and semantically into the OBEY Giant.

Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues.

The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations.

Stencil graffiti, wheatpasted poster art or sticker art, and street installation or sculpture are common forms of modern street art.

Video projection, yarn bombing and Lock On sculpture became popularized at the turn of the 21st century.

Phenomenology (from Greek phainómenon "that which appears" and lógos "study") is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness.

As a philosophical movement it was founded in the early years of the 20th century by Edmund Husserl and was later expanded upon by a circle of his followers at the universities of Göttingen and Munich in Germany.

It then spread to France, the United States, and elsewhere, often in contexts far removed from Husserl's early work.

Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard.

Skateboarding can also be considered a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation.

Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years.

A 2009 report found that the skateboarding market is worth an estimated $4.8 billion in annual revenue with 11.08 million active skateboarders in the world.

In 2016, it was announced that skateboarding will be represented at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.