Admiral Ackbar TRAP poster in the style of Fairey's HOPE design

There are a lot of Fairey remixes around, but this Admiral Ackbar/Star Wars TRAP poster's pretty nicely executed.

POSTERS > Trap poster (Thanks, Sebastian!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

MORE: Copyfight • Funny • poster • star wars

More at Boing Boing

Ants and Stars: Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic visit the Sardinia Radio Telescope in Italy

The Snowden Principle

liquidstar

It’s a TRAP!
Teller

It’s a SHEP!

/sorry
http://twitter.com/atep_bear atep tea

what it trap
The Outside

Is it 2008 still?
BarBarSeven

What’s the Mon Calamari stance on the debt ceiling?
BarBarSeven

What about the Mon Calamari stance on the Troubled Asset Relief Program? Is the TARP a TRAP?
Sooper8

I am so bloody bored of this re-cylcing of the ‘Hope’ thing. A slight glimpse of these damn colours scrolling up onto my screen makes and I audibly exhale.
Yes, I liked it at the time and it’s a iconic image, but come on now lets move along!
- BarBarSeven
  
  I am so bloody bored of this re-cylcing of the ‘Hope’ thing… Blah… Blah… Blah…
  
  It’s a SCHMUCK!!!
- Guest
  
  I have seen the future, it is a fairly bright purple.
http://twitter.com/dead_ebooks Ryan Dorn ♔

dohoho
http://dreadpiraterobert.blogspot.com dreadpiraterobert

My wife just told me that this poster is better than the entire film “Revenge of the Sith”, which our son made us watch tonight. She’s so right.
The Tim

I prefer the Axe Cop version: http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=AXE-CHOP-POSTER&Category_Code=AXE#pic
- Max
  
  I’m afraid, that’s because you’re wrong.
Frank Diekman

Ugh. Can we PLEASE stop with the Obama poster parodies? They’re as old now as Matrix “bullet-time” parodies.
Genre Slur

“As a non-USA ‘dude’, I feel beholden to pointing out that the content of these palimsistic (sic) versions of the early 20th century-style propaganda poster many Americans seem to be ‘suckered’ by is not helping matters. Hold the fucker to his word, or take the power back. 2nd rate graph/design masturbation dialogue is doing NOTHING for your ‘image’.”– Sincerely, Earth.
- Genre Slur
  
  Though The Empire Strikes Back is the best film of the lot, I say…
  - Genre Slur
    
    Actually now that I think about it, this version is the BEST (conceptually) of the lot. That is, if the subject is referring to the intentions behind the original poster…
    - Genre Slur
      
      BINGO
knocky smith

Ackbar’s got it goin’ on
Look what I did once
http://spleenal.blogspot.com/2011/01/saving-ensign-ackbar.html
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jasper-Huxley/100001713326211 Jasper Huxley

I’m fine with Obama poster parodies. He is still the president, so they still seem kind of current to me. What I could do with a little less of in my life is Star Wars stuff. Could we find a fresher source of pop-culture references, please?
- Guest
  
  For my part, I am sick to death of all the free ice cream. What I need is a complaint box, delivered to my home, free, daily, where I can kvetch about what other people make for their own amusement and selfishly present to me for my approval, like the roman emperor I am.
  
  And grapes, BRING ME GRAPES
ChurchTucker

They didn’t need to change it from Obama.
Rosscott

I actually sell a t-shirt with a slightly different take on the TRAP joke:
http://hilariawesome.com/15
moop2000

I’ll stick with this Fairey homage from James Hance.
http://www.jameshance.com/images/paintings/meepp.jpg

Source link: http://www.jameshance.com/prints.html
- snagglepuss
  
  I’m wearing that shirt as I type.
  
  And thinking that these various parodies are about Obama is missing the point – They’re not about O, they’re about the over-simplification of complex, nuanced idea into dumbed-down, “Iconic” slogans. Such as:
benher

It’s funny because you can replace Akbar with Obama, McCain, Bush, or basically anyone and it’s still accurate…
Andy Simmons

It was funny when this exact design came out on a t-shirt at TeeFury two years ago:

http://www.teefury.com/archive/609/TRAP/
Brainspore

I’m just happy whenever I see one of these that actually required some graphic arts skill to produce. At least 95% of the “hope” parodies out there are just lazy posterizing filter jobs that took 5 minutes in Photoshop.
snagglepuss

Whoops:

Such as:
snagglepuss

Dammit. Picture fail. Sorry.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Did you use the + Image button?
Bubba73

Well that’s like, your opinion man.