Flickr: Gary SoupEven if you've never heard of Shepard Fairey's name (and who hasn't at this point?) you know his work from the iconic Obama "Hope" poster. The graffiti artist is the hottest thing in the art/design world, and with Web sites devoted to copying him. It was just a matter of time until a company tried ripping off his style, too.But I would have never guessed the first Shepard Fairey wannabe is Quaker Oats. The company wasn't founded by the original Quakers but it might as well have
Nadia PflaumRocky Varela I ran into Rocky Varela in the parking lot of scionLAB, the auto-sponsored event space in the alley behind 19th and Locust. His Bob Berdella shirt just begged for an explanation, which, of course, is the point. Varela, it turns out, designed the shirt to promote a movie about the Kansas City killer, Berdella, set to premiere September 10th at Screenland. His friends Bill Taft and Paul South, co-producers of the film, needed help with design work, so Varela jumped o
