ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

For Infectious Car Art’s first themed contest, they asked artists to “blow up the political bumper sticker into something big and beautiful.” The winners, Juan Pa Molina (inspired by the posters of Russian Constructivism to communicate his ardent belief in Obama) and Jack Martin (believes that now is the time to go from a country run by fear, to one run on hopes and dreams), now have their art available for the automotive canvas. Pieces start at $34.99 here.
The Infectious Blog gets into the question of “Why didn’t you do a McCain contest?!”

Well, we didn’t do a more general one that also supported McCain for three reasons:

First off, we had artists proactively approach us wanting to do Obama Car Art – so it was partially reactive.

Second, we felt that there was a significant art movement out there around the Obama campaign that was conducive to this project. For instance, just search Flickr for Obama art and McCain art and you can see the difference. 4604 results vs. 353 results – with much of the McCain art being derogatory. We honestly didn’t think we could have successfully done a McCain car art contest.

And finally, yes… we are admitted Obama fans here.

However, all that said and done…. Prove us wrong! If you want to do McCain Car Art, we welcome you. Heck, bring on Nader Car Art too! We’ll offer the same booty that we offered for the Obama Art Contest to those submissions. Just submit your idea for McCain Car Art into our open submissions.

We love Obama here, but we love freedom of speech and open communication of ideas even more.