Design Against Fur 2008, an event held by the Fur Free Alliance, produced many excellent posters (and animated shorts). Among them is certainly the poster (below) created by Feng Chen, a student from Beijing China, winning both the Grand Prize and the International Peoples Choice Award.

The event’s other winning designs can be seen here.

The Fur Free Alliance is “an international coalition of over 35 animal protection organizations working to bring an end to the exploitation and killing of animals for their fur.”

For “inFURmation” on this year’s competition, check out Design Against Fur 2009.

The AIGA recently invited designers from across the United States to create nonpartisan posters that “inspire the American public to participate in the electoral process and vote for a presidential candidate in the 2008 general election.” The posters were all made available as printable PDFs, and 50 were selected and displayed during the 2008 national conventions in Denver and Minneapolis.

Although there were many excellent posters submitted, the one shown above, by Zach Norman (AIGA Salt Lake City), is among my favorites. To choose your favorite, view the full collection of posters submitted.

I recently discovered this beautiful poster and just had to share. This print was created earlier this year by Scott Hansen (aka ISO50 target=”_blank”), whose inspiring work is rich and luxurious in both color and detail. He was contacted by the Obama campaign and commissioned to create a poster on the theme of “Progress”. The poster was produced in a limited quantity of 5000 prints, and sold as a campaign fundraiser. Not surprisingly, it sold out quickly.

Hansen shares some behind-the-scenes insight regarding the Making of the Obama Print on his blog.

Above: A screenshot from the artist’s article mentioned above, showing a closer view and revealing some of the wonderful detail within the design