Obamicon.me "Make your own 'Obamicon' — your image in a style inspired by Shepard Fairey's iconic poster." posted to generators -> by thegreatkinghal, Jan 13th, 2009
I guess it could be argued that all art is propaganda for various purposes, but it IS a bit creepy how he seems to be deified by his fans. Also, Fitzpatrick/Korda's portrait of Guevara. Fairey admitted to being influenced by it, but I guess it had more to do with Che's rockstar-y charisma, a quality Obama also has, than with Obama being a closet commie.
I like that a national campaign had the smarts to approach Fairey in the first place. He's a talented and successful designer, but not the first name one might think of for campaign design, which is generally rather bland and homogenized.
This will add a whole new level to Craig's List penis photos.
I can't register. :[ IT'S BROKENNNN.
Very cool.
Man, that Obama poster is seriously going down in history. It'll take its place alongside the We Can Do It woman and "LOVE" with the off-kilter "O".
Good job, Fairey.
Does anyone else see it as propaganda?
I guess it could be argued that all art is propaganda for various purposes, but it IS a bit creepy how he seems to be deified by his fans. Also, Fitzpatrick/Korda's portrait of Guevara. Fairey admitted to being influenced by it, but I guess it had more to do with Che's rockstar-y charisma, a quality Obama also has, than with Obama being a closet commie.
It won't save my picture...
It certainly could be seen as propaganda.
I like that a national campaign had the smarts to approach Fairey in the first place. He's a talented and successful designer, but not the first name one might think of for campaign design, which is generally rather bland and homogenized.
Did they approach him? From what I understood, he approached them and it's more of an unofficial logo.
cant get there