Swindle Magazine
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Swindle was a bi-monthly arts and culture publication founded in 2004 by artist Shepard Fairey
. Swindle has not been published since 2009 and is, in effect, folded.
The magazine had a strong focus on street art and has featured Banksy
, Space Invader, Faile, and Miss Van
on its cover. Swindle has featured interviews with celebrities such as Billy Idol
, Debbie Harry
, and Grandmaster Flash
. In 2006 and 2007, Swindle compiled annual Icons issues that featured 50 leading art and culture figures.
Shepard Fairey's Studio Number-One produced the magazine until early 2009. In addition to its regular staff, Swindle has contributors from the music, fashion, and creative industries, including Fairey, Banksy
, Henry Rollins
, Caroline Ryder, Shawna Kenney
, and Damien Hirst
.
In 2006, Advertising Age
picked Swindle's' s issue 8 as one of the "10 Magazine Covers We Loved." The L.A. Weekly listed Swindle' s creators among the "L.A. People of 2006."
Shepard Fairey
Frank Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, in which he appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. His...
. Swindle has not been published since 2009 and is, in effect, folded.
The magazine had a strong focus on street art and has featured Banksy
Banksy
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique...
, Space Invader, Faile, and Miss Van
Miss Van
Miss Van, Vanessa Alice Bensimon , born in 1973 in Toulouse, France, is considered one of the best known painters of the graffiti scene. She started wall painting in the streets of Toulouse at the age of 18. Her drawings are of sloe-eyed women, covering a varied array of female forms and expressing...
on its cover. Swindle has featured interviews with celebrities such as Billy Idol
Billy Idol
William Michael Albert Broad , better known by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English rock musician. A member of the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X...
, Debbie Harry
Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers...
, and Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash
Joseph Saddler better known as King Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing....
. In 2006 and 2007, Swindle compiled annual Icons issues that featured 50 leading art and culture figures.
Shepard Fairey's Studio Number-One produced the magazine until early 2009. In addition to its regular staff, Swindle has contributors from the music, fashion, and creative industries, including Fairey, Banksy
Banksy
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique...
, Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins is an American singer-songwriter, spoken word artist, writer, comedian, publisher, actor, and radio DJ....
, Caroline Ryder, Shawna Kenney
Shawna Kenney
Shawna Kenney is an American author and journalist.Kenney was born in Auburn, New York. She authored the memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix at the age of 29. The book developed an underground cult following, receiving a Firecracker Alternative Book Award in 2000, with translations published in...
, and Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst
Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists , who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist,...
.
In 2006, Advertising Age
Advertising Age
Advertising Age is a magazine, delivering news, analysis and data on marketing and media. The magazine was started as a broadsheet newspaper in Chicago in 1930...
picked Swindle's