President Obama’s high threshold depiction in headlines and designs of some major networks is starting to bother me for some reason. Is there really a need to make Obama look so monotone? Why can’t anyone just use a nice image of him, like in http://www.whitehouse.gov/, why does it have to look like a stencil, graffiti looking design? Am I the only one sick of this depiction of him?
Are they trying to say he is a revolutionary?
An outcast perhaps?
how is this design conveying historic events?
These are some of the images i’m talking about:
By NY1.com
by CNN:
I’m all for this style, but it seems out of context in the news. Poor choice in my opinion.
Other depictions using the same style:
