Obama's 'Hope' artist creates striking posters for Trump inauguration

The red and blue poster highlighted Obama’s entire campaign.

Nearly a decade ago, artist Shepard Fairey created the striking 'Hope' poster in connection with Barack Obama's presidential bid.



PHOTO: Shepard Fairey

Now, Fairey and his team have partnered with the Amplifier Foundation to launch “We the People” – a campaign conceived to help fight “hate, fear and open racism.”

PHOTO: Shepard Fairey

The project, which also features designs by Ernesto Yerena and Jessica Sabogal, has so far raised $1, 365, 005, crossing the original target of $60, 000.

PHOTO: Shepard Fairey



“Much of Washington will be locked down on Inauguration Day, and in some areas, there will be severe restrictions on signs and banners,” the Amplifier Foundation wrote on their Kickstarter page. “But we've figured out a hack.  It's called the newspaper!”

PHOTO: Shepard Fairey

“On January 20th, if this campaign succeeds, we're going to take out full-page ads in the Washington Post with these images, so that people across the capital and across the country will be able to carry them into the streets, hang them in windows, or paste them on walls,” the organisers added.

PHOTO: Shepard Fairey

This article originally appeared on The Independent.