You may know that Shepard Fairey, the creator of the original Hope art, was arrested: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iplIoa3L6GNqY7FnCd4nktBaQaQA
But have you seen these spoof, which like'em or not, are well done: http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/view/165211/1
Henry M
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A local graphic design agency, bobdonpaul.com is inviting artists from around the world to submit their ideas for a poster commemorating the inauguration of our 44th president, Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. Unlike never before in history, Barack Obama the candidate and now President Elect has been celebrated by artists all over the globe in what has been dubbed “Obama Art.” Obama’s campaign has inspired every form of creative expression from sculpture to painting, drawing, graffiti, posters, song, poetry, and the list goes on. Artists, writers, poets, designers, moms, dads and kids, from coast to coast and abroad, have joined the ranks of this new art form now know as “Obama Art,” a phenomenon that has not gone unnoticed by Bob Manley, his brother Don Manley, and their partner Paul Gurney.
After Barack Obama won the election on November 4th, Bob, Don, and Paul realized that January 20, 2009 was likely to go down in history as one of Americas most historic and important days, regardless of your politics. “With the “Obama Art” wave beginning to crest with his election, we became inspired to invite that energy to the celebration and commemoration of his inauguration” says Bob. He went on to say “in many ways, the artistic movement inspired by Barack Obama and his message of change is likely to have contributed to his victory.” “We would like to celebrate that effort, and the artists that made it happen.”
To that end, bobdonpaul.com has created a website, http://www.inaugurationday2009.org, to invite creative people from around the world to submit their ideas for “Obama Art” celebrating his swearing in on January 20, 2009. In addition, they are using their site to celebrate all the creative people that have led this phenomenon, buy sharing their artwork, videos, poetry. You can find all the information you need to know about Inauguration day and its history… ok, maybe not all you need to know, but stay tuned, the site is only a few weeks old.
bobdonpaul.com does not know where this will lead and seem not to care. They have lots of ideas and are depending on the growth and popularity of the site to determine its future. “It’s our hope that maybe one of the posters that are derived from our contributors will someday hang in the Capital, or maybe the White House,” says Bob.
Visit http://www.inaugurationday2009.org, and see some of the finest examples of “Obama Art,” learn all about Inauguration Day, and most importantly, let your creative juices flow and contribute your idea(s) for a commemorative poster in celebration of the swearing in of our 44th President.
bobdonpaul.com is a small boutique graphic design agency recently formed in central New Hampshire. To keep it simple, Bob and Don are brothers and Paul is their friend. We are three modest and humble guys who each feel as though they have something to offer the world. Together, and not so modestly, we discovered we have something great to offer.
Bob Manley
bobdonpaul.com, LLC
56 Taylor Road
Sanbornton, NH 03269
603.556.7117
bob@bobdonpaul.com
Barack Obama's election as the 44th President has inspired me like no leader that has come before him.
In 1961 - when I was 6 years old - my family took me on a tour of the White House. I ran down a hallway (away from the tour) and peered through a crack in a folding screen that was set up to block a doorway. President John F. Kennedy was seated on a couch in a majestic, sun-filled room reading a newspaper.
That vision and feeling of awe has been with me since that day. I can still close my eyes 47 years later and see that scene. I have that same feeling when I see President-elect Obama.
Here's a "Yes We Can" inspirational poster that I was inspired to put together. I think it turned out quite well. I hope you like it.
http://www.rademandesign.com/obama/yes_we_can.html
I stopped in to the downtown Suffolk Campaign for Change office today to drop off some odds and ends as I was on my way to the DMV to correct my address on my drivers license, it needed to be straightened out before election day. Anyway, I met Darla! Hi Darla!!! There she was, busy as a bee in the offices. The office was very full of activities, new posters, big photos, food and a great big monitor counting down the minutes until the election. It was very encouraging, especially after the low turn out we had over the week-end for canvassers.
There is a little store in the little "mall" where our office is. I've been buying Obama buttons there but end up giving them away while canvassing. I am down to my last one so I stopped in the store to buy some more and he was out of them! He had several other designs but I didn't like them nearly as much. I bought one but will hold out for the promised arrival of more of the kind he had before. He (I should learn his name) also sells Obama tee-shirts and hats. I ought to buy a hat, I like hats, but I make my own tee-shirts by printing my own designs on iron on transfers paper then I iron them on to plain tee-shirts. I also make refrigerator magnets that parody the the 'Virginia is for Lovers' logo. It has Virginia is for Obama instead.
Also, over the week-end I made a mini-poster in response to Obama's joke about "Contrary to popular belief, I was not born in a manger.....I was instead born on Krypton..."
Of course I also printed each of those designs on tee-shirts.
I wish I had a button maker!
Someone in the McCain campaign seems to have missed the significance of the rays behind a political figure in the history of political poster propaganda. Eerily ironic, isn't it?
Woohoo, I just bought a life size cut out for the party from the FYE store at the mall. They are also available online if you search for them and I saw one at Amazon.com.
At our party, I'll be taking photos of the guests next to Barack, and maybe we'll raise more money by auctioning off the poster at the end of the evening.
Hi,
The title says it. I've never done this before so excuse my ineptitude.
Barack Obama is my only hope, kind of like Princess Leia in starwars "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi; your my only hope." (Another guy with a funny name) :)
I have health problems and have to have health insurance or I will die. Because of this I am stuck at a company that I really hate working for. My talents are not utilized to their full potential and the company is mismanaged by arrogant right-wing republicans. Some of my fellow employees are of that ilk as well. There have been many personality conflicts as well and management (if you can really call it that) has no inclination to solve problems. Now I'm ranting, Sorry.
BTW, no pay increase for the past three years. I'm sure this is a familiar problem.
On to another subject:
I have been experimenting with GIMP (free program that's like photoshop) and during the convention coverage I was inspired to create a campaign poster. I don't know if the campaign would think it good or not but I would like to upload the jpeg image for someone to look at. Can anyone help me do this?
Thanks for reading,
Ernie
Design I produced for Behance
This was a piece I did for Behance:
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Audacity/112017
Hey all. I am trying to come up with a cool poster design for the younger crowd. I came up with this, what do you all think?
I've been inspired by Obama and the amazing graphic artwork donated to the campaign. I thought this might be a good poster direction as well.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/2694181082_7d8aa0f05b.jpg?v=0
Quick suggestion for the Barack Obama web site: Allow people to print out your posters and business card size Obama messages on the Barack Obama web site from their home PC's.
Create the option so a user can click on the poster for sale on your web site to open a larger image. They can then "save picture as" with that larger image to a file on their home computer, and then insert that picture to an application such as microsoft word-which also will print business card size format, by the way-and print out their own poster or even letter size Obama for president signs.
The smaller image currently on display on the poster for sale page becomes unfocused if the end-user attempts this process, or to paste it into an application to print it out. Don't make those people buy them who can't afford them if we can use existing technology! It's a win/win option to get the message out there. Many people would hand out business-card-size Obama pictures with the web site URL address on the street corner and display the posters in their car and home windows.
Scott Hansen’s Progress poster is fantastic and the detail is incredible!
I wanted to make a suggestion for a possible follow-on for the Obama Store.
Reporting on Barack’s capture of the Democratic Nomination in Montana, the San Francisco Chronicle (06/04/08) ran a fabulous picture of Barack with a US flag centered behind his head and his arms spread out like an eagle’s wings with his finger spread out like feather tips. There is also the “CHANGE” poster in front of the podium. [Note: This was the lead image in a late night post.]
(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=15&entry_id=27018) .
After calming down from the power of the image, two thoughts crossed my mind. First, Barack does look like an eagle in the picture. Second, who could capture this change or metamorphosis in an image? I thought surely the superb artist Scott Hansen could!
Other interesting symbolism is that Barack was honored with the Native American Indian Crow surname of “Black Eagle.”
The image from the Chronicle has three main components: the American Flag, Obama himself, and the Change poster on the podium. I would suggest creating an image that replaces these three powerful images with symbols. For example, the flag could be replaced with the Obama logo. Obama himself could be replaced with a silhouette of a bald eagle wings outstretched. The change poster could be replaced with a nature scene (perhaps things in bloom).
Just an idea to consider.
And another one....
Poster illustration by Shepard Fairey; soon to be available on barackobama.com
I've read a lot of posts of people who need Latin Obama posters ... here are the links to Latin and lots of other posters ...
Yes We Can. Si Se Puede.Obama 08~LaLaInKCMO
February 4th. The day when I solidified what I had been trying to make certain for so long: my dedication to this man and his message. My belief in a world beyond the valley of despair too commonly known as American politics. The place: Bay Area, California. The time: 11 PM. As a student, I had many menial tasks on my plate at the beginning of the week, but I knew that if February 6th came around and there was one thing that I had left on the table, one moment where I had convinced myself that "that's enough, it'll be well enough without me", I would have failed. Looking back on it now, we may have lost Santa Clara county, but the margins were thin. And we won every district where I worked.
What work was this, you ask? This work was the work of the night. The kind of underground movement that is only suited for the early morning hours, when the cool brisk air gives the adrenaline-charged minds that shot of electricity that can only come from an all-nighter. The kind of energy that stems from the knowledge, held by all involved, that we were changing America. In what way we could, we were laying the bricks of the road to tomorrow.
We flyered and chalked, signplanted and postered, until not a view could be held without Obama's face in sight. Come sunrise, we made our way to a busy intersection and held aloft our homemade signs, pleading people to VOTE FOR CHANGE and other such slogans which in their deepest of moments can not even begin to express what truth lays behind them. As traffic picked up, we were invigorated beyond belief. Honk after honk after honk filled the roads, thumbs up and grins were in no short supply. I could feel it like I had never felt it before: what Obama had said so many times yet I had not reached out enough, not extended my hand into the consciousness of the masses enough to feel it: there was something happening in America.
And never was this moment truer than when a young black man pulled up beside me in his run-down honda with a latino friend in the passenger seat. To cheapen them to such stereotypes defiles the moment, but the fact of their complete annonymity to me proves beyond all else the timeless importance of their message. The driver looked into my eyes questioningly, as he could not see the front of my sign and knew not what I was protesting or advertising. Seeing his confusion, I turned my sign towards the car and all of a sudden his eyes lit up. The widest of grins I have ever seen thundered across his face as he recognized the words. He reached down to his jacket and tugged at his chest, pointing to a small round button pinned there with pride. "Obama". His window was closed and we could exchange no words, but there were no words that could do it justice. He was trying with all his might, desperate to express in what short time he had the otherworldly, urgent sentiment:
"I, too, believe."
