January 8, 2009
Obama-mania
Unsurprisingly, Time magazine’s Person of the Year cover for 2008 was Barrack Obama, and they commissioned Shepherd Fairey to adapt his iconic poster image for the front cover, above. This cover is just the tip of the iceberg, as this collection from Folio shows:
And that’s just the States. Both Esquire and GQ here in the UK feature Obama on this month’s covers (thanks Mark).
5 Comments
Comment on January 8, 2009 by Anonymous says:
Nice work!
My instant feelings were that the Time “silhouette”-cover may be slightly racist and the Radar cover, WTF?
The Atlantic and the Time poster covers are the best.
Comment on January 9, 2009 by Jef says:
Comment on January 9, 2009 by Mark says:
Radar’s a piss-take of the Vanity Fair Hollywood/Tom Ford issue
Nive to see the old men’s mag marketing dept thing of “don’t have men / black people on the cover” has been thrown out of the window for one black man at least!
Comment on January 9, 2009 by LondonLee says:
I love that he’s on the cover of Tiger Beat.
Comment on January 9, 2009 by jeremy says:
It’s the ‘I sing in the shower’ that gets me.
