No idea who made them, but a) really cool use of the stencil-shadow effect, and b) orange is a nice political color, although the last time it got a lot of use, the orange candidate got poisoned.

Designer Shepherd Fairey (of Obey Giant fame) has come up with a pretty stunning set of posters for Obama, featuring the words "progress" and "hope":

So, these are neat, but their neatness creeps me out a little. Putting aside for the moment the perhaps troubling issue of how the use of a politician's face in their posters often seems to correlate with how much of a cult of personality has grown up around them, and the explicit (ironic?) references to Communist-style propaganda in Fairey's previous work, I can find an even more basic reason for Obama supporters (like myself) to feel weird about this: candidates with cool posters never win. For example, Green Party upstart candidate Matt Gonzalez' campaign for mayor of San Francisco was accompanied by some awesome rock-style posters, and we all know how that turned out.

I know, I know, maybe a "different kind of candidate" can have a different kind of poster, but I can't help but wonder if appropriating the monster-truck style of the Bush-Cheney campaign logo wouldn't throw a couple percentage points Obama's way in the general? Don't forget, Bush certainly won the font battle in '04:

(graphic by Paula Scher of the NY Times)