On the eve of inauguration day, from the Edge of Europe, I think of Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Sidney Poitier, Spike Lee and the creativity of Black America. And then I just think about creative America, in any color you like. As a student of graphic design in the 1980s, I looked to America for inspiration — Milton Glaser, Seymour Chwast, Paula Scher, Michael Vanderbyl, Stavros Cosmopulos, Charles Spencer Anderson, Tibor Kalman — a World Power of Creativity. And then for a long time nothing from America caught my eye until I saw Shepard Fairey's iconic Hope poster of Barack Obama. The great American poster is back and that gives us all Hope!
