Steven Heller on Design for Obama

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Uploaded by on Oct 18, 2009

Steven Heller, Co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at The School of Visual Arts, speaks with AIGA Philly on the outpouring of posters for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Heller also compares today's political graphics to the campaign posters of a previous generation, and the relationship between democracy and design.

Produced by Peter Camburn & Craig Schlanser for AIGA Philadelphia

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  • isn't that Tobias Fünke? sorry inappropriate :)

  • Here we are 9 months later and nothing has changed. The administration is completely in bed with wall street. We're still in Iraq. Guantanamo is still open. The economy is in shambles. Obama has lied about his tax increases, his domestic drug enforcement and spying policies as well as his promise of transparency in government.

    After all that what do we get? Documentaries, posters, paintings and interviews bowing down to him as the great messiah. Come on designers, you can do better.

  • The level of Obama worship in the graphic design community is distasteful and pathetic. In design school I was unaware of any other student who read economics, history and philosophy and yet many of the design students I knew were the first to put up an Obama poster and tell you how important it was that we vote for him.

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