Chairman Now-Mao

Theme: Pop Culture-Miscellaneous

Meet Chairman Now — a design that flips history onto a hammock. Gone is the austere revolutionary; in his place, a laid-back figure soaking up capitalist comforts, shades on, drink in reach, surrounded by wads of cash. It's Chairman Mao reimagined not as the head of the Cultural Revolution, but as the face of late-stage irony. The text says it all — Chairman Now is a nod to how time (and capitalism) can twist even the fiercest ideologies. Below it, “The Little Read Book?” lands the punchline: a play on Mao’s infamous Little Red Book that asks if revolution has become more brand than belief. The pun between “red” and “read” suggests that maybe these ideas are no longer followed, just skimmed — or shelved altogether. This one’s part pop art, part provocation — asking what happens when revolutionaries cash in, and whether rebellion still speaks once it's printed on tote bags and mugs. Equal parts satire and social mirror, it’s a tongue-in-cheek reminder that nothing — not even radical history — is safe from reinvention.