Shepard Fairey Wins Design of The Year

The winners were announced at the Design Museum last month, where an exhibition of all the shortlisted designs is on show until June 14 .

Here’s some more information from the Design Museum:

Brit Insurance Design Award 2009 Announced
Obama Poster, Shepard Fairey

Iconic poster receives official recognition through prestige of international design award Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster has triumphed in a shortlist of 90 other designs to become Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2009. Chosen as the most innovative and forward thinking design from the past 12 months, Alan Yentob announced the winning design at a gala awards dinner hosted by Naomi Cleaver at the Design Museum.

The design was chosen from the seven category winners by a panel of judges including Alan Yentob, Paola Antonelli, Karen Blincoe, Peter Cook, Sarah Mower and Yves Béhar. The panel commented, “If ever there were to be a ‘The Poster of the Year’, the Obama Poster would be it. The US election was a watershed in contemporary history and this poster demonstrates the power of communicating ideas and aspirations from grass-root level. Just as the presidential candidate’s campaign speeches recaptured the lost art of oratory, so this poster breathed new life into a form that had lost its purpose. Fairey’s poster came not from a marketing campaign, but as a self initiated fund raising campaign. The poster did its job by becoming a collector’s item. More than that it’s encapsulated the mood of its time.”

Continue Reading Here...

Studio Number One