After Shepard Fairey’s “Art for Obama” comes “Design for Obama,” a book of posters for the president. The “grassroots anthology” features a Spike Lee-curated collection of images drawn from the submissions to its eponymous website: “Do the Right Thing”-inspired pieces, variations on Shepard Fairey’s image of “Hope,” as well as a bizarre Obama tramp stamp. Taschen books will release the title next week, but until then you can browse the uncurated contents online.

Barack Obama’s notoriously big ears continue to be a source of mockery with this presidential pachyderm painted by Terdsak Phiromgripak, part of a 100 elephant display in Amsterdam to be auctioned off in support of saving the species in Asia.

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Shepard Fairey Authors Book On Obama Art

A new book on Obama art will be released by Abrams Books, encapsulating a range of imagery created in the last year in support of the president. Among the artists included in “Art for Obama” are David Choe, Ron English, HVW8 as well as the legally embattled “Hope” portrait painting artist himself, Shepard Fairey. A sampling of images from the book is below. Read more »