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In an ongoing effort to secure Democratic hopeful Barack Obama’s presidential bid, Upper Playground and Digital Gravel, the premier online store for urban apparel brands, have partnered to produce a limited-edition line of Obama t-shirts featuring selective artwork from the Upper Playground x Barack Obama print series.

The Upper Playground x Digital Gravel t-shirt collaboration is part of an ongoing series from Upper Playground of artist collaborations in support of Obama’s presidential campaign. Upper Playground has endorsed Obama’s campaign by creating prints featuring artwork from David Choe, Grotesk, Justin Bua, The Date Farmers, Munk One, Ron English, Alex Pardee, Morning Breath, Mac, Sam Flores and Mear One, in addition to printing t-shirts with Shepard Fairey’s Obama graphics to help support the campaign. Upper
Playground was also instrumental in providing artwork for the Manifest Hope Gallery exhibition in Denver, Colorado that coincided with the Democratic National Convention last month.

The Obama graphic t-shirts will showcase the sold out poster designs created by The Date Farmers, Munk One, Sam Flores, Alex Pardee, Grotesk, Morning Breath, and Ron English via Upper Playground. Under 300 t-shirts were made for each graphic, and the retail price for each t-shirt is $20. All t-shirts are available in men’s and women’s sizes. The new merchandise is available exclusively at DigitalGravel.com.

This month’s Upper Playground New Era 59FIFTY collection includes designs from Jeremy Fish and Denis Kennedy.  An interesting design is the one from the Fifty24SF Gallery and that is of the stock ticker laid out in multi-colored panels.  Each hat retails for $45. You can find them at UP stores and online.

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This is the second series of an ongoing collaboration of screenprinted skate decks between Jeremy Fish and various artists.  All decks are sold in a set of three and signed by Jeremy Fish himself.  Only 300 of each design have been produced, even fewer have been signed!  You can grab your set now at Upperplayground.com

THE FLOWERS - 7
Sam Flores and Jeremy Fish collaborative skate deck for superFishal, titled “The Flowers.” For riding, for your wall, for your kids, for your mom.

THE FRIEND - 8
Matt Irving of Delphi Collective and Jeremy Fish collaborative skate deck for superFishal, titled “The Friend.” Irving had a pet donkey called Delphi growing up, and the best ode to a pet donkey is to make a limited edition skate design.

THE FACE - 7 3/4
Travis Millard and Jeremy Fish collaborative skate deck for superFishal, titled “The Face.” For all comic fans, you may know Mr. Millard from Fudge Factory fame.

Illustrator Alex Pardee will be signing his new skate deck and advance copies of his book titled “Awful | Homesick” on Sun., September 7, 2008 at Upper Playground’s flagship store in San Francisco.  Alex Pardee’s unique artistic style draws upon influences ranging from horror films to graffiti. His work has been described as representing a circus sideshow cemetery, combining random shapes and colors with torment
and absurdity.   His deck (available now) is limited to 150 pieces and each is signed by Alex.

Date/Time:
Sunday, September 7, 2008 from 2-4 pm

Address:
Upper Playground
220 Fillmore St. (at Haight St.)
San Francisco, CA

Phone: 415-861-1960

The man on top of the skateboarding world, Nike SB teamrider Paul Rodriguez has opened his own sneaker/clothing boutique called Primitive in Encino, California.  Brands will include - Nike SB, Adidas, Converse, New Balance, Alife, The Hundreds, Diamond, Stussy, 10 Deep, Upper Playground, In4mation, Alphanumeric, Brixton, Cappeline, Obey, Crooks N’ Castles, etc.  With these brands and his backing, you know this is a shop that will be a destination shop for years to come.  via WTF!

The shop is located @ 17060 Ventura Blvd in Encino, CA 91316

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Bay Area-born artist David Choe is the latest artist to partner with Upper Playground to produce not one, but two Barack Obama prints. Choe has designed and produced apparel, adidas sneakers, comic books, movie posters, album covers, fine art books and toys, among many other projects.

David Choe’s Barack Obama posters are part of an ongoing series from Upper Playground of artist collaborations in support of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.  There were 200 prints made that are signed and numbered of each design, and each poster retails for $200. The limited-edition 18″X24″ prints are available exclusively online:

Poster 1

Poster 2