Giant-Orange

The Giant-Orange print was made in 1996 toward the end of my time living in Providence R.I. where I had attended art college at R.I.S.D. I ran my own print studio called Alternate Graphics where I printed T-shirts, stickers, and posters for contract clients and for my own art and clothing. In 96 I started to print a lot more of my Obey Giant art prints, most of which were stylistically inspired by Russian Constructivism and Barbara Kruger. I created a lot of the work with Rubylith cuts and hand-set Xeroxed type. I did not know how to use the computer so if I needed a type style that I could not find in a type specimen book or I needed to be very precise, I’d ask my R.I.S.D. friend Ryan Lesse...View all