Rick Stengel, Time Magazine’s Managing Editor, appeared on the Today Show to announce President-elect Barack Obama as the person of the year in 2008. A new iconic image of Barack Obama created by Shepard Fairey is featured on the cover as well.
Here is an excerpt from Time Magazine:
“Our cover portrait is by the street artist Shepard Fairey, whose roots are in the skateboarding world and whose early poster of then Senator Obama became the great populist image of the campaign. With this cover, Fairey has now created a new iconic image of the President-elect — a rich, multilayered poster that echoes but then expands on his original.”
This was a no brainer, as we have witnessed a historical moment in our generation. Forty years after Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech, America has finally “reached the promise land”.
As stated in my earlier post, Barack Obama is the quintessential gentlemen that topped my best dressed list. He also receives the number one spot in my list of inspirations for 2008.
Fire it up, ready to go! Welcome to Washington Mr. President!
Source: Time
December 19th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
well deserved.
December 20th, 2008 at 3:29 am
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