Screenprint for President Obama's 2012 campaign designed by Gail Anderson
date: label: Date
content: 2012
name: label: Created by
content: Gail Anderson, American, born 1962
label: Created by
content: Joe Newton, American
label: Subject of
content: President Barack Obama, American, born 1961
notes: label: Caption
content: Gail Anderson is a New York based designer and partner at Anderson Newton Design. Since 1987, Anderson has worked in the field of design at design firms, advertising agencies, and publications. Her work has received awards from major design organizations, including the Society of Publication Designers and the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). In 2008 she received a Lifetime Achievement Medal from the AIGA. Anderson currently works as Creative Director at the School of Visual Arts Press and is on the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Post Office. In 2013, the US Postal Service commissioned Anderson to design the commemorative stamp for the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Anderson was only the second African American designer tapped to design a commemorative stamp, the first being Georg Olden who designed the Proclamation’s 100th anniversary stamp in 1963.
label: Description
content: This is a silkscreen print featuring large text in different fonts against a white background. At the top margin is the word “WE” in large block letters in yellow, white, and navy blue. The world takes up the top third of poster. There are three red stars above the word in the upper right corner. The bottom two-thirds of the print consists of the Obama campaign “O” logo on the left-hand side. The top half of the “O” is bright blue. The bottom half of the letter is made up of red stripes against a yellow background that is part of a yellow stripe across the bottom half of the print. Next to the letter “O” is a large exclamation point in bright red that overlaps the letter “O” slightly. It has a big round red circle for the dot and the red shaft is bulbous at the top and narrow at the bottom. The print is signed by the two artists on the bottom left corner.
place: label: Place depicted
content: United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Design
label: Topic
content: Graphic design
label: Topic
content: Mass media
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 2001-
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Political and Activist Ephemera
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gail Anderson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2020.11.21
objectType: label: Type
content: screen prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © 2012 Obama for America
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 24 × 18 in. (61 × 45.7 cm)