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Besides Gotham being a beautiful face in it's own right - the 'CHANGE' sign, if you've noticed has completely overshadowed the 'Obama 08' one, and rightfully so - it's easily the most powerful message/design combination of the entire primary season.
Nice post. I wrote a similar one a while back -- you might be interested in it since we had similar insights. What's with the candidate's designers not understanding what an apostrophe is, by the way?
Here's one that does!
http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=63
Posted by: Jonathan H | January 29, 2008 at 03:10 PM
Besides Gotham being a beautiful face in it's own right - the 'CHANGE' sign, if you've noticed has completely overshadowed the 'Obama 08' one, and rightfully so - it's easily the most powerful message/design combination of the entire primary season.
Posted by: Adam | January 29, 2008 at 03:51 PM
BABY TEETH. the first candidate to break that one out gets my vote. That typeface is totally the future.
Posted by: fish | January 30, 2008 at 01:11 AM
Nice post. I wrote a similar one a while back -- you might be interested in it since we had similar insights. What's with the candidate's designers not understanding what an apostrophe is, by the way?
http://www.kolbrenerusa.com/blog/index.php/2007/08/08/campaign-logos-2008/
Thanks, Kirk
Posted by: Kirk Littell | January 31, 2008 at 01:18 PM
Obama's logo seems to be inspired by Pepsi, and it's everywhere in New York:
http://www.hossli.com/observations/2008/01/26/sings-o-the-times/
Posted by: Peter | February 01, 2008 at 10:55 AM
I wish my instructors would give me this rebranding assignment.
Frankly, all of these fonts need change. (Talk about "rock the vote.")
Posted by: Stephen Barros | February 07, 2008 at 01:50 AM