Poster - Barack Obama ' HOPE ' (2008)

 

For this week's review, we’re going to talk about a poster called “HOPE”.

The Barack Obama “HOPE” are one of the most widely known posters in 2008, It has an image of the United State president Barack Obama and was designed by American artist ‘Shepard Fairey’.The story of how the poster was created is at first the poster was created only in a day and printed only as a street poster, then it was widely distributed as a digital image and paraphernalia. When the time of election season, in July 2008 with the approval of Obama, the sticker robot had printed over 200,000 vinyl “HOPE” sticker, 75% of which had been given away to support the cause. It has been an iconic poster and came to represent Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. The poster is a stylized stencil portrait of Obama in solid red, beige, and (light and dark) blue, with the word “progress”, “hope”, or “change” below (and other words in some versions). Also, Obama’s campaign used “ Change we can believe in “ as their slogan and the chant “ Yes we can”. Next, when the time election ended on November 4, 2008, Obama defeated the Republic Nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona and making him the President-elect and also the first African American to be elected as President. Barack Obama become the third sitting United State Senator to be elected as president, after Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy. After having a vote of the Electoral College on December 15, 2008, and the subsequent certification thereof by a Joint Session of the United State Congress on January 8, 2009, Barack Obama was elected as President of the United State and Joe Biden becoming as the Vice President of the United State with 365 of 538 electors. Not to forget that Barack Obama also become the first President that not been born in the contiguous United States, he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. A month after the winning of Barack Obama, the photograph that Fairey based the poster on was identified and the AP( Associated Press) has begun negotiations for compensation. Later on, Fairey sued for a declaratory judgment for his poster. Finally, it has been settled out of court. Fairey pleaded guilty to destroying and fabricating evidence showing that he had used the photograph in February 2012 and in September he was sentenced to 2 years of probation, 300 hours of community service, and also fine of $25,000.