If you are a big branding nerd like I am, you will love this behind-the-scene’s sneak peek into the making of Barack Obama’s campaign logo and identity.
Listen to VSA’s Creative Director Sol Sender step you through their rough drafts and the final decision:
Part 2:
Mr. Bike Thief -
I’ve been thinking about this post for a solid 1/2 hour now while I walked back from the Presidential election. You are right, it was stupid of me to lock my bike on a dark street in New York City. Honestly, I considered attempting to lock my rear wheel [...]
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If you haven’t already, please vote.
Obviously, I have a preference. But in truth, what matters to me most isn’t who you vote for. It’s that you get out and do it. Thanks.
In New York? Come celebrate with me and friends later: Activate Election Night.
The Obama campaign has inspired some of very creative (political) art. Shepard Fairey of OBEY (his contribution, currently hanging on my wall), Scott Hansen of ISO50 (his contribution), and others.
This is one of my favorites. A very clever transformation of the word “United” into “Change” by Shawn Hazen of Hazen [...]
The Obama campaign released their upcoming 30-minute commercial to youtube.
If my footer didn’t give it away, I’m a big Obama supporter.
I came across a post today on Infosthetics about the New York Times‘ partnership with Many Eyes (an IBM company) to create a “Visualization Laboratory.” Their goal is “to allow newspaper readers to visualize and comment on information and data sets presented by Times editors, share those visualizations with others and create topic hubs [...]