Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1John HeartfieldJohn HeartfieldBorn Jun 19, 1891The Hand Has Five Fingers, Communist Party (KPD) election poster, 1928 An outsized, grasping worker's hand pushes straight out at the viewer, and the slogan does the rest: five fingers, list number five, vote Communist. There is no candidate face and no program, just one photographic gesture…0
  2. 2Klaus StaeckKlaus StaeckGerman Workers! The SPD Wants to Take Away Your Villas in Ticino, West German federal election, 1972 A heavy blackletter Deutsche Arbeiter! shouts down at a halftone modernist villa, cut from a lifestyle magazine and printed in flat yellow on blue. The mock warning that the Social Democrats will…0
  3. 3Shirley ChisholmShirley ChisholmBorn Nov 30, 1924Bring U.S. Together, presidential campaign poster, 1972 The cleverest move here is two letters in red. Setting U.S. apart inside Bring U.S. Together turns a stock unity slogan into a play on us and the country at once, and the stacked, condensed black type below hits Chisholm's name hardest of…0
  4. 4Labour Isn't WorkingLabour Isn't WorkingSaatchi & Saatchi for the Conservatives, 1978 and 1979 A line of jobless people snakes away from an unemployment office toward the horizon, and the headline puns on the word working. That single double meaning, set in huge black capitals over a photograph that looks like documentary, made it the…0
  5. 51981 French presidential election1981 French presidential electionLa Force tranquille, François Mitterrand, 1981 A Socialist candidate who needed to look like a safe pair of hands appears calmly in front of Sermages, a small village in the Nièvre, its church steeple behind him, under the slogan The Quiet Strength. Jacques Séguéla's poster sells continuity and…0
  6. 61988 Chilean presidential referendum1988 Chilean presidential referendumThe No campaign's rainbow, Chilean plebiscite on Pinochet's rule, 1988 Campaigning to end Pinochet's military rule, the opposition chose joy over anger. A heavy black NO sits tucked under a sweeping quarter-arc of colored bands, and each party backing No had its own color in that rainbow, so one…0
  7. 71989 Polish parliamentary election1989 Polish parliamentary electionHigh Noon, Tomasz Sarnecki for Solidarity, June 4, 1989 A 23-year-old design student took the most famous image of a lone sheriff, Gary Cooper in High Noon, and made two small changes: a ballot in his right hand, and a little Solidarity badge pinned above the marshal's star. Across the top runs…0
  8. 8New Labour, New DangerNew Labour, New DangerDemon Eyes, M&C Saatchi for the Conservatives, before the 1997 election Tony Blair's face on a black background, with a strip seemingly torn away across his eyes to reveal a pair of glowing demon eyes, above the line New Labour, New Danger. Creative director Martin Casson's idea works like a magic…0
  9. 9Swiss People's PartySwiss People's PartyThe black sheep poster, Swiss People's Party (SVP), 2007 Three white sheep stand on the Swiss flag while one kicks a black sheep off its edge, beside the words Sicherheit schaffen (Create security). It promoted the party's initiative to deport foreign criminals before the 2007 federal election.…0
  10. 10Barack Obama "Hope" posterBarack Obama "Hope" posterShepard Fairey for Barack Obama's campaign, 2008 Working from an Associated Press photograph by Mannie Garcia, Fairey reduced Obama's face to a stencil in solid red, beige and two blues, gazing up and away, above a single word. He made the first version in a day, and that word changed from…0