SHEPARD FAIREY Artist Edition #1 - Professor Schmitt on Creating New Deal’s First Official Art Collaboration Capsule

The artist painting iWARNING ADDICTIVE! 2019 in his studio.

iWARNING ADDICTIVE! 2020, Mixed media (spraypaint, stencil, unique screenprint, and graphite on deckled edge paper), 28" x 37" (framed 33"x42")

Commentary from Professor Schmitt on the creation of the shape for the Shepard Fairey x New Deal Artist Edition Archival Quality Deck:

Dropping 9/28/20: The New Deal x Shepard Fairey deck is an authentic limited edition of 400 with 14 AP’s, screen printed on a new PS Stix shape designed by Paul Schmitt and inspired by Andy Howell’s Disco Gangsters Part Two (the Unspeakable side of the early 90’s Happy Hippies graphic where the happy characters revealed their weapons)

“I took the original Howell DeeGee’s template and scaled down the width from 9 1/8” to 8 5/8”, but kept the same 14” wheelbase that was the standard back in the 1990’s.

I wanted it to be compact with a 6 7/8” Nose and a 6 5/8” tail totaling a mere 31 ¾” in length.” 

~Professor Schmitt

All decks have the staple ND yellow top veneer with the classic PS Stix Laser Serial Stamp, and this Shepard Fairey model has the collab top screen with Shepard Fairey x New Deal logo lockup. Bottom veneer colors come assorted in classic New Deal 1990 style, including Orange, Red, Purple, Dark Blue, Teal, & Brown bottom veneers. 

The Shepard Fairey deck is manufactured for New Deal by Paul Schmitt at PS Stix and screenprinted by master board printer Roland Sanchez.