Editor’s Note: Shepard Fairey is a street artist, graphic designer and activist. This is an edited excerpt from “Peace: Photographs by Jim Marshall,” published by Reel Art Press. The peace ...

For 20 years, it was Missoula’s most dubious and surreptitiously maintained icon: the peace sign painted on a telephone relay tower atop Waterworks Hill. Each spring, the reflector was ...

We’re all familiar with the peace sign, and not just because many of us went through that truly unfortunate early teen 2000s phase where holding up a peace sign in every photo was the answer to ...

The symbol’s adoption by the American Student Peace Union helped establish it as an icon of the 1960s Vietnam protests, and from there it thrived as a signal of solidarity. IWM London’s People ...

Abramović and Tisci’s IRL-rendering is closer to the symbol’s creation story. Designed by British artist Gerald Holtom, the icon first debuted on a London peace march in 1958 and was later ...

For a younger generation, the once-powerful protest symbol packs about as much of a punch as a smiley face. Once the powerful logo of nuclear disarmament, the peace sign became so overused it lost ...

This article is a preview of The Tech Friend newsletter. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Tuesday and Friday. You might know it as the “V for victory” or the peace sign. Whatever you ...

Editor’s Note: Shepard Fairey is a street artist, graphic designer and activist. This is an edited excerpt from “Peace: Photographs by Jim Marshall,” published by Reel Art Press. The peace ...