The Hampton Classic Staff Selects Its Top 11 Posters of All-Time - 27 East

The Hampton Classic Staff Selects Its Top 11 Posters of All-Time

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Mickey Paraskevas's 1992 Hampton Classic poster.

Mickey Paraskevas's 1992 Hampton Classic poster.

Henry Koehler's 1993 Hampton Classic poster.

Henry Koehler's 1993 Hampton Classic poster.

Monica Acee's 1997 Hampton Classic poster.

Monica Acee's 1997 Hampton Classic poster.

Daniel Black's 2006 Hampton Classic poster.

Daniel Black's 2006 Hampton Classic poster.

Kelly Coffin's 2019 Hampton Classic poster.

Kelly Coffin's 2019 Hampton Classic poster.

Mark Badgley's 2024 Hampton Classic poster.

Mark Badgley's 2024 Hampton Classic poster.

Shanette Barth Cohen on Aug 20, 2025
Choosing only 10 of our staff’s favorite posters proved to be too hard, so we channeled our inner “This is Spinal Tap” and went to 11. And, really, I was... more

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