A Look Back at the Audacious Air Force One Graffiti Stunt That Put Droga5 on the Map

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David Droga was recently lionized, almost literally, at the Cannes festival for his body of work over the course of a brilliant career. A lot of that success has come, of course, at his eponymous agency Droga5—which swung for the fences with its very first piece of work in 2006, and connected in a big way.

It was a viral video for Marc Ecko, showing grainy footage of what appeared to be a graffiti artist jumping a fence at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and tagging one of the engines on Air Force One with the words “Still Free.”

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