Leaders and famous personalities such as Donald Trump, Mao Zedong, Angela Merkel, and Albert Einstein illustrated as Hipsters by Amit Shimoni.

Amit Shimoni is a young Israeli illustrator from Tel Aviv who has graduate from the Be’zalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. In his HIPSTORY series, Amit Shimoni creates Hipster-like illustations of great leaders and outstanding personalities of our modern times. The series already includes names such as Albert Einstein, Barack Obama, Mahatma Gandhi, Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King, Queen Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Che Guevara, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Donald Trump, Angela Merkel, Mao Zedong, Vladimir Putin and Lenin, among others. Amit Shimoni says: “HIPSTORY doesn’t talk about politics, it talks about generation Y.” Each Hipster portrait is available as fine art print, coaster, and postcard on Amit’s website. You can also follow him on Instagram and Facebook.

HIPSTORY - great leaders of modern times illustrated as Hipsters by Amit Shimoni.
HIPSTORY – great leaders of modern times illustrated as Hipsters by Amit Shimoni.

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