A fresh approach

George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 illustrated covers by Shepard Fairey

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I was over the moon this Christmas when I received these great books as a gift.  I am quite a fan of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm and wish I paid more attention when I studied parts of them at school! These versions by Penguin Books have great illustrated covers by the famous contemporary artist Shepard Fairey, who is favoured amongst the guys here at Creativitea for his work for Obey Giant and his eye catching graphic paste ups.

I think this is a great idea by Penguin, these books are about revolution and resistance and they couldn’t of chosen a more fitting modern day artist to do these covers!

For more info please check out the following links…

Penguin Books sets

Shepard Fairey on Wikipedia

Obey Giant

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