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Change we can believe in – Obama '08, United States, 2007 Anonymous, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK

A time for greatness – Kennedy for President, US, 1960 Anonymous, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK

Portrait of the Zurich parliamentarian Rita Fuhrer, 2001 With kind permission of the canton of Zurich © Rosina Kuhn

François Mitterrand – a young president for a modern France, 1965 Anonymous, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK

Lenin, Soviet Union, 1924, reproduced 1968 A. Strachov (1870–1924), Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK

De Gaulle – Franco – Salazar, France, 1968 Atelier Populaire, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK

Together everything is possible, Nicolas Sarkozy, France, 2007 Anonymous, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK

Official portrait of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, 2003 Anonymous, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection, ZHdK

Turkmenbashi - Love me Turkmenistan, 2006 Nicolas Righetti, Rezo

Poster for election spoof Democrazy by Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli, featuring actress Sharon Stone, 2007 Francesco Vezzoli, with kind permission of Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

Got oil? Slovenia, 2004 Nenad Cizl, Museum for Design in Zurich, poster collection

Arnold Schwarzenegger, US, ca. 2003 Official governor photograph

German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 1992, from the photo collection Traces of Power 1991–1998, 2006 Herlinde Koelbl, Neuried, Munich

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How politicians' portraits can teeter between self-promotion and biting satire.

An exhibition at the Museum of Design in Zurich showed in 2008 how local and world political figures are depicted.