Artist who created iconic Obama "Hope" poster feels the Bern

[The Tradition]

Artist and activist Shepard Fairey, who designed the iconic “Hope” poster during then-Sen. Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, is backing Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders.

“I’m supporting Bernie Sanders, because I want to push principles, not personalities,” Fairey said in a video released by the Sanders campaign on Wednesday evening.

“I’m tired of portraits,” he continued. “I want to make images about people of substance, about the issues they care about.”

The Sanders campaign also released a new T-shirt designed by Fairey with an artistic rendering of Sanders’s “Feel the Bern” slogan and a call for a “political revolution.”

Shepard also said in a statement accompanying the T-shirt that Sanders is the candidate running for president who “embodies the principles of justice, equality, liberty, and access to the American dream.”

“Bernie needs help from people like you and me and I think he’ll look out for the needs of people like you and me,” he added. “Pick up a t-shirt and help support Bernie Sanders!”

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/269823-obama-hope-designer-endorses-sanders

Hmmm... reminds me of this:

 

[moral_victory]

Sweet I bought one. Good looking out Trad.

 

[starbrown]

Feel the bern

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

I hate to say it but I agree there's something slightly fascistic or at least Germanic about it. Maybe more Germany in WWI than Nazi Germany, but still not optimal.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Can't really object to the individual elements, but the gestalt is negatively suggestive.

My first thought was that someone was intending that dissonance and this was designed to hurt the Sanders campaign. But the accompanying info suggests otherwise. So just an accident, I guess. Or something.