It is about time we had a Bag in Charge we can trust, which is why I am on board to elect BAGMAN for President! My contibution is this campaign poster for the ds106 assignment BAGMAN Campaign Poster.

Although not of the same political ilk, I was compulsed to reach back for another unlikely candidate, Richard Nixon in 1960:

I found this at the Learn California site which has info on the Nixon Campaign:

As radio and television gained popularity with the voting public in the 1940s and 1950s, image and media exposure became increasingly important to waging successful campaigns. Companies subsequently sprang up across the nation offering campaign management services. Richard Nixon hired two of the most preeminent and innovative of these companies to run his California campaigns for his 1960 presidential bid.

I did this one in Photoshop CS5- some of this might not have been easily done in GIMP, but some of the principles should. Here’s how…