Okay, it was pretty much a given that Obama would be Time Magazine's Person of the Year. What is truly awesome is seeing Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama portrait on newsstands as the Time cover.
"With the Obama image, I'm the one that set it in motion — how it was going to be disseminated and put up on the streets. And there was this people's movement, this grass roots movement vibe to it that I think was really important...I donated an image to them, which they used. It was the one that said "Change" underneath it. And then later on I did another one that said "Vote" underneath it, that had Obama smiling. But the image that I continued to put out there myself, they couldn't have any affiliation with it because it was being perpetuated illegally in a lot of ways, and so I just continued to do that on my own without any coordination with them, and that was the "Hope" image." – Shepard Fairey
