Obey wins Brit Insurance Design of the Year

Illustrator Shepard Fairey aka Obey who's famous poster depicting a moody, mystical Barack Obama gazing into the great future, won the Brit Insurance Design of the Year, picked by a panel of greats and goods including Alan Yentob and Paola Antonelli, curator of architecture and design at New York's Museum of Modern Art. It was, apparently, chosen as "most innovative and forward thinking design of the past 12 months".