When Andy Warhol first turned Campbell’s Soup cans into art in the early 1960s, he collapsed the distance between the grocery store aisle and the gallery wall. Decades later, that same image continues to slip easily into new cultural spaces — including skate culture. One of the most compelling examples of this crossover appeared at ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair) in 2018, where The Skateroompresented its licensed Andy Warhol Soup Can Skateboard Decks as collectible design objects. Continue reading Eye On Design: Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup Can Skate Decks→
OK, Campbell’s condensed Peach Soup is not a thing that exists (fortunately?) but it is a painting by Japanese artist Hiroko Yanzawa. I saw it at The Other Art Fair, in Brooklyn.
The Souper Dress, inspired by the iconic Campbell Soup Cans series by Andy Warhol, was imagined and produced by the Campbell Soup Company as a mail order offer and as an effective advertising campaign when paper dresses were all the rage in the 1960s. Two labels from any different variety of Campbell’s Vegetable Soups and $1.00 got you the dress.
Fans of Andy Warhol, Comics, or Soup can get this colorful, rad design on a T-Shirt for just $21.95, or on other swag priced accordingly, at This Link!
This sticker was spotted on Tenth Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets.
Update January 2019: It seems that this work can be attributed to the Street Artist Appleton, whose work is about creating Diabetes awareness. See another of his pieces at This Link!
