It’s poster parody pandemonium! We’ve already remarked here on the Riff about the cool design both coming from and being produced for the Obama campaign; one of the most iconic images so far is Shepard Fairey’s red-and-blue “Hope” poster, whose graphic simplicity references classic propaganda just enough to be cool. The poster’s design has become enough of a touchstone that parodies have been popping up, but I didn’t realize quite how many: via BoingBoing comes this link to a page featuring a whole slew (89, in fact) of takes on the red-on-one-side-blue-on-the-other design. Some of these are obviously made by angry Republicans, who did nothing but change the “Hope” to a “Nope” and call it good. But my favorites are so nonsensical, they’re oddly inspired: The Soup Nazi, over “Soup,” of course; Amy Winehouse over “Dope”; the Pope over, uh, “Pope.” However, this page did seem to miss a version that appeared during San Francisco’s recent leather-themed Folsom Street Fair, whose cheeky reference to the “Obey” posters that made Fairey famous was suddenly appropriate in a whole new way. Yes, Mr. President, I’ve been very naughty. See that one after the jump.
