Shepard Fairey

“Fairey created a series of posters supporting Barack Obama's 2008 candidacy for President of the United States, including the iconic "HOPE" portrait. The New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl called the poster "the most efficacious American political illustration since 'Uncle Sam Wants You’Fairey also created an exclusive design for Rock the Vote. Because the Hope poster had been "perpetuated illegally" and independently by the street artist, the Obama campaign declined to have any direct affiliation with it. Although the campaign officially disavowed any involvement in the creation or popularisation of the poster, Fairey has commented in interviews that he was in communication with campaign officials during the period immediately following the poster's release. Fairey has stated that the original version featured the word "PROGRESS" instead of the word "HOPE," and that within weeks of its release”

 I like this design as it has a meaning that obviously won thousands of people over, and managed to sell over 300,000 stickers and 500,000 posters during this campaign. I quite like how Barack Obama’s actual face has a pop art sort of theme going on which makes it more quirky

For me this picture stood out from the rest simply by the way the lines in the background change colour from left to right, on the left its red and black whereas on the right side it is red and a crème colour. This strange effect made the rock chick woman stand out, being in front of the lines made it look 3D.

The title for this poster design is called “Eat The Rich”, this probably came from what her t-shirt actually says and that she is holding a fork maybe to resemble that she is literally going to “Eat The Rich”.

Like most of Shepard Fairey’s designs such as ‘The Barack Obama ‘Hope’ poster’ he has just stuck with three main colours that have been used in different shades so parts of the picture don’t blend in and actually look realistic with the shadings around certain areas.