POSTER- BARACK OBAMA ''HOPE'' POSTER 2008
Review: Barack Obama “Hope” Poster Barack Obama “Hope” Poster was design by Shepard Fairey who is a street artist and graphic designer,which featured Barack Obama in the colours red,beige, and blue in 2008 to support Obama’s first presidential campaign. Yosi Sergant contacted Obama to ask for his permission for Fairey to design an Obama poster, which was granted a few weeks before Super Tuesday . Fairey began screen-printing posters completing the design and showing it to Sergant.Initially , he sold 350 and put 350 more up in public. Beginning with that sale and continuing throughout the campaign, Fairey proceeds from selling the image to produce more.Ater first printing, he made 4,000 more that were distributed at Obama assembly .Fairey decided to create a portrait of Obama based on his feeling that his "power and sincerity as a speaker would create a positive association with his likeness" The meaning behind this pos...