For me, this site is kind of what the Internet is about. Collaboration on a widespread scale, art from numerous inspired sources, and strangers contributing for the sake of something greater than themselves. It’s called Design For Obama, and I think it’s a pretty successful venture into the realm of socially-inspired, publicly-available design. One of the things I like most about this site (where designers submit posters having something to do with Obama’s campaign and other site users can view the work and rate their favorites) is that all of the posters are available for free download, so you can print them out at home or work and put them up wherever you want. This is a great way for art to be disseminated to a public that may not normally see it, and for independent designers to have their work viewed in numerous places on- and off-line. I hope more sites that operate in this same collaborative way crop up elsewhere. I also hope to get a poster or two up here myself…stay tuned.
September 22, 2008...5:49 pm
Graphic Design + Politics + Internet = Awesome
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