--- title: Shepard Fairey: Artist Endorses Bernie Sanders With Shirt description: The artist behind Obama's trademark "Hope" posters in 2008 has designed a t-shirt for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders canonical: https://time.com/4229162/shepard-fairey-bernie-sanders/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-18T16:50:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T15:11:37.784Z article:section: Politics og:title: Artist Behind Obama 'Hope' Poster Makes a Bernie Sanders Design og:description: 'I want to push principles not personalities' og:url: https://time.com/4229162/shepard-fairey-bernie-sanders/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Artist Behind Obama 'Hope' Poster Makes a Bernie Sanders Design twitter:description: 'I want to push principles not personalities' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Artist Behind Obama 'Hope' Poster Makes a Bernie Sanders Design  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Feb 18, 2016 4:50 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Feb 18, 2016 4:50 PM UTC The artist behind Barack Obama’s iconic 2008 “Hope” posters has designed a [t-shirt for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders](https://www.instagram.com/p/BB5VhbBJaHs/). Artist and political activist Shepard Fairey took a different approach than he did for Obama in 2008 with his insignia for the Sanders campaign. For one, the art focuses on symbols instead of showing Sanders’ face. “I want to push principles not personalities,” Fairey said in a [video posted to Sanders’ Twitter](https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/700145509697097731). “I’m tired of portraits. I want to make images about people of substance, about the issues they care about.” Fairey endorsed Sanders on social media, calling the Vermont senator “the real deal.” The artist has [previously criticized Obama](http://time.com/3900222/obama-hope-shepard-fairey/) for not living up to his expectations. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4229162/shepard-fairey-bernie-sanders/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4229162/shepard-fairey-bernie-sanders/"},"headline":"Artist Behind Obama 'Hope' Poster Makes a Bernie Sanders Design","datePublished":"2016-02-18T16:50:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:11:37.784Z","description":"'I want to push principles not personalities'","url":"https://time.com/4229162/shepard-fairey-bernie-sanders/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4229162/shepard-fairey-bernie-sanders/","name":"Artist Behind Obama 'Hope' Poster Makes a Bernie Sanders Design"}}]}] ```