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<-- O famoso poster de campanha do presidente dos Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, de autoria do artista de rua de Los Angeles Shepard Fairey foi o vencedor do prêmio de design britânico Brit Insurance Design Award 2009. O retrato de Obama em vermelho, branco e azul venceu outros 90 concorrentes e foi escolhido como o design mais inovador e avançado dos últimos 12 meses.http://ultimosegundo.ig.com.br/bbc/2009/03/19/poster+de+obama+e+eleito+design+do+ano+4921930.html
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Obama And Pop Culture
"Only On The Web": Artist Shepard Fairey's rendition of Barack Obama captured the eye of, not only the candidate, but thousands of Americans. Fairey talks to Bill Whitaker about politics and pop culture.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q_tFP0j9C4
Obama named 2009's best design
Shepard Fairey's iconic Barack Obama "Progress" poster has been named the winner of the international Brit Insurance Design Award, considered by some to be the Oscars of the design world.
The poster is one of the items in an exhibition in London celebrating the year in all areas of design from fashion to furniture and architecture to interactivity.
Other items on display at the Design Museum include a green-screen suit, the Black issue of Italian Vogue and a bicycle that filters water.
BBC News was given a look around some of the highlights of the exhibition by curator Nina Due.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7952567.stm
"The design world’s Oscars"
Icon Magazine
The world’s most interesting and forward looking designs have been nominated for the Brit Insurance Design Awards by industry experts spanning seven categories: architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport. This 91 shortlisted designs are on display in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibition. From this comprehensive list, a panel has decided the category winners in each of the seven disciplines. These finalists will go forward to vie for the 2009 Brit Insurance Design of the Year to be judged by a panel, chaired by Alan Yentob and including the designer and environmentalist Karen Blincoe, and the architect Peter Cook.
Brit Insurance Design Award 2009
Barack Obama Poster, USA
Designed by Shepard Fairey
Category winners
New Oslo Opera House, Norway
Snøhetta
Client: Ministry of Church and Cultural Affairs
Italian Vogue: A Black Issue, July 2008
Vogue Italia, published by Condé Nast
MYTO Chair, Italy
Designed by Konstantin Grcic
Commissioned by BASF, Manufactured by Plank
Barack Obama Poster, USA
Designed by Shepard Fairey
Make Magazine, USA
Published by O’Reilly
Magno Wooden Radio, Indonesia
Concept and design by Singgih S Kartono
Manufactured by locals in Java
Line-J Medellin Metro Cable, Colombia
Designed and Manufactured by Poma, France
Client: Metro de Medellin Ltda.
Find out more at designsoftheyear.com
http://www.designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2009/brit-insurance-designs-of-the-yearObama Campaign Posters Win Top Prize in U.K. Design Competition
By Farah Nayeri
campaign posters, used in the runup to his election as U.S. president in November, was voted the design of the year in a U.K. competition.
Created by the artist Shepard Fairey, the posters beat 90 runners-up in the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2009 contest organized by London’s Design Museum.
The panel judges said in an e-mailed release today that the poster “breathed new life into a form that had lost its purpose,” and that it “came not from a marketing campaign, but as a self-initiated fundraising campaign.”
Fairey, the poster’s designer, is being sued by the Associated Press over claims that the stylized image copied an AP photograph. The complaint was filed earlier this month in federal court in New York.
Awards were also given out in individual categories. The fashion winner was Italian Vogue’s “Black Issue,” dated July 2008, which pictured four black models on the cover and was devoted exclusively to successful black women.
The other winners, with categories in parentheses, were:
- the New Oslo Opera House in Norway, designed by Snohetta (architecture);
- the Myto chair, seamless engineered-plastics seating designed by Konstantin Grcic and commissioned by BASF AG, the world’s biggest chemical producer (furniture);
- Make Magazine, the first U.S. publication to focus on home kits to make technology projects, meaning those put together in “backyards, basements, and garages” (interactive);
- Magno Wooden Radio, made of local, sustainable materials in an Indonesian village and designed by Singgih S. Kartono (product);
- Line-J Medellin Metro Cable in Colombia, cable cars designed by France’s Poma and used to transport people living in the hills to the city (transport).
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aw6fyV9zlHpA&refer=muse