Year1999
MediumScreen Print
Dimensions24 x 18 in
EditionFirst Edition
Edition size100
PublisherObey Giant
SeriesOBEY Icon Series
EraEarly OBEY Era
Collector7/10
Visual7/10
Historical7/10
ScarcityScarce
Artist Statement
“WEBSITE Screen Print 18 x 24 inches Edition of 100 I made this poster not long after I created my website. I had always felt like sitting in front of a computer was a waste of time and the Internet was for geeks, and I had never been a big TV watcher either, so I had this concept of people being hypnotized by a screen. At the same time, I came to realize that the Internet is a great tool for information, and it really helped me to be more independent and self-sufficient, allowing me to handle my own sales and not have to hound stores for money. This poster kind of makes fun of the idea that B
About This Print
Website is a 1999 Shepard Fairey screen print, published by Obey Giant as a first edition of 100, measuring 18 x 24 inches. Made shortly after Fairey launched his own website, the image plays on the idea of people hypnotized by a screen, with a Big Brother figure positioned behind it. By Fairey's account the poster both critiques the notion of an authority hypnotizing viewers through the screen and, ironically, promotes his website in the same gesture. It is a hand-pulled screen print combining media critique with self-aware Obey iconography.
Market Context
No recorded public sales >= $100 - pieces like this are typically held long-term by investors/collectors, were destroyed or consumed, or do not surface on the open market.