Fairey is known for putting his stickers and posters in unlikely and often illegal places.
This, in turn, was based on a military jet called the Fairey Delta 2.
"The part that I didn't expect was once it was posted online what it would achieve virally, " Fairey says.
The image was unusual, Fairey says, because his political art is usually negative.
Fairey first made a name for himself in the late '80s with black and white stickers featuring wrestling legend Andre the Giant.
To curate our group, we spoke with artists and insiders (Roger Gastman, Shepard Fairey, Steve Lazarides) to help narrow down a list.
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Los Angeles-based street artist Shepard Fairey is the man behind the design.
Neither did Fairey expect to make money off the political move.
When Shepard Fairey was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design in the late 1980s, a friend asked him how to make a stencil.
But just before Super Tuesday, Fairey says, he got a call from the campaign telling him to go ahead and make a poster and distribute it in his typical guerrilla fashion.
Within days, Fairey overheard people speculating about the message.
Much of the tale concerns a Frenchman named Thierry Guetta, who began by filming such street artists as Space Invader and Shepard Fairey and then, in a moment of wild optimism, decided to join their ranks.
It was the iconic Shepard Fairey poster.
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Fairey spawned the "Obey" street art movement which in turn was the inspiration for a line of clothing, and he has designed album covers for several well-known bands, including The Black Eyed Peas and the Smashing Pumpkins.
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