1st: “Embrace for the White House” – Element Design Group

Focusing on the tried and true graphic device of animals hugging while wearing suits, this cuter-than-average campaign poster was featured as a finalist in MoveOn.org/Obey’s Manifest Hope competition in August of 2008, a program using art to generate funds and awareness for Barack Obama’s run for the White House. www.WeAreElement.com

2nd: “Everything is OK Poster” – MINE

3rd (tie): “Chevwrong Campaign” – Underground Advertising

3rd (tie): “I Want You (I really do).” – Mende Design

An opportunity for average citizens to compete, American Idol style, to win free political ad space. Five winners were given a wheat-pasted poster campaign and two minutes of air-time to broadcast their answers to the central question of individual political advocacy: “I Want You to _________________.”