A hipster Obama? Indeed, thanks to DesignCrowd’s latest contest

Their previous contests inspired graphic artists to imagine Disney characters as cast members of “Orange Is the New Black� or to dream up the best uses for North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un’s hair. Now Alec Lynch and Adam Arbolino, co-founders of the Australia-based crowd-sourcing site DesignCrowd, have asked the impossible: Make the likes of John Kerry and Rand Paul look cool.

DesignCrowd’s latest exercise in extreme Photoshopping called for entrants to give politicians a hipster makeover. About 70 entries spanned the hipster spectrum: Silver Lake Barack sporting skinny jeans, boho-chic scarf and fingerless gloves (nicely played, Mr. President), Nancy Pelosi rocking the camouflage and Colin Powell, who roughs up his tidy J.Crew-esque ensemble with a tatted-up arm peeking out from under that rolled-up slim-fit sleeve. Our fave: Condoleezza Rice, looking like she’s fresh from blogging the Renegade Craft Fair, accompanied by a George W. Bush whose orange fedora and rainbow-hued pocket square has us wondering if he’s traded his Texas ranch for a Highland Park art walk.

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