The “Hope” series of Barack Obama campaign posters, created by Shepard Fairey, was voted winner of the Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2009 contest organized by London’s Design Museum, reports Bloomberg’s Farah Nayeri. The poster beat ninety runners-up. The panel judges said in an emailed 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.
