Business Graffiti

So, you own a hugely successful graphic design and art brand ‘Obey’. What could be better than coming to a city and co-opting protest politics to help increase your profile and sell more products…

I’ve annotated the images so you can see what is really there… a bit like in the film ‘They Live’ by John Carpenter, where Shep Fairey ‘appropriated’ the word ‘Obey’ in the first place…





“…go home yankee hipster…” – gotta love it…