Freedom To Lead

Shepard Fairey, creator of OBEY GIANT and lately, made even more famous for his Barack Obama "Hope" poster, has conjured up another piece of illustrated portrait poster in his typical starkingly stylistic method. While the aforementioned Obama poster was created in support of Obama's presidential camppaign (and arguably, it did more than its predicated part), this latest piece, a strikingly colorful portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, with dove imagery at her heart, propaganda-esque sun-rising background and “FREEDOM TO LEAD” as the slogan, actually serves to, in Shepard's own words, "to raise awareness of her on-going house arrest and the oppressive nature of the military regime ruling Burma". Prints of this poster are available for download and purchase at the OBEY GIANT site at thirty five bucks and the proceeds from the sale will go to benefit the Human Rights Action Center and The U.S. Campaign for Burma. For more on the background of Aung San Suu Kyi's ongoing predicament, check out The U.S. Campaign for Burma, Human Rights Action Center (where a letter template addressed to both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, written to effect the passing of the Renewal of the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act )and Causecast.