Take a good look at that t-shirt above. It’s from the 1970’s, the exact date isn’t known, but I noticed it while flipping through Rin Tanaka’s My Freedamn! 2.
Why you may ask!? Well aside from its awesomeness, the typography looked strangely familiar to me. It took me a moment, but then I realized it was exactly the same as a certain poster I have above my desk.
Now the t-shirt was made in the 70’s, the book was published in 2004, and the poster arrived in 2005, during Fairey’s residence at the Contemporary Museum. The moral of the story? Keep your sources dusty.
