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Obama's 'Hope' artist creates striking posters for Trump inauguration
The red and blue poster highlighted Obama’s entire campaign.
PHOTO: Shepard Fairey
Nearly a decade ago, artist Shepard Fairey created the striking 'Hope' poster in connection with Barack Obama's presidential bid.
Obama makes farewell calls to Afghan, Indian leaders
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.”
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.
Goodbye Obama
“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!”
“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.
This article originally appeared on The Independent.
Obama makes farewell calls to Afghan, Indian leaders
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.”
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.
Goodbye Obama
“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!”
“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.
This article originally appeared on The Independent.