{"id":13445,"date":"2008-12-11T21:09:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T04:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/12\/11\/the-big-o.html"},"modified":"2008-12-11T21:09:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T04:09:32","slug":"the_big_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/11\/the_big_o.html","title":{"rendered":"The Big O"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

Fascinating pair of videos on the design of the Obama logo<\/a>. I hadn’t really considered it earlier, but, really, logos are relatively new in the election biz — at least something other than the candidate’s name in big block letters. The only other case I can think of is the Bush “W” stickers, and even that was relatively limited and accidental. The Obama “O” (which I always saw as a sun rising over a plowed field, very Americana), though, was part of a thorough, intentional branding, in a way that has not really been done before (but which I suspect we will see in the future).<\/p>\n

Cool stuff.<\/p>\n

(via kottke<\/a>)<\/small> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fascinating pair of videos on the design of the Obama logo. I hadn’t really considered it earlier, but, really, logos are relatively new in the election biz — at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008","category-media-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51823,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/23\/presidential-campaign-logos-2015.html","url_meta":{"origin":13445,"position":0},"title":"Presidential Campaign Logos 2015","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Jul-15 3:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I know the election is in 2016, but given it's only July 2015, and most of these folk will have vanished from the field by the turn of the year (and there will be half a dozen additional ones), I'd rather go with the present year.I've just finished reading\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11568,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/military_logos_from_aroun.html","url_meta":{"origin":13445,"position":1},"title":"Military logos from around the world","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-Jul-07 6:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"This could actually be a fascinating branding project, but the selection of defense department\/ministry logos given in this article is a bit too limited (and a remarkable number of former...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12358,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/21\/obama_08_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":13445,"position":2},"title":"Obama ’08","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-May-08 2:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Barring some unexpected catastrophe (or an even-they-can't-be-so-stupid self-destructive rules change by the Democratic National Committee), it looks like Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for President in November.\u00a0...","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2008"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131223,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/07\/analyzing-olympic-logos.html","url_meta":{"origin":13445,"position":3},"title":"Analyzing Olympic Logos","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Aug-16 11:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting analysis of Olympic logos (original page: https:\/\/eyeondesign.aiga.org\/milton-glaser-analyzes-olympic-logo-design-through-the-ages\/) from a design standpoint, by the guy who developed the \"I [Heart] NY\" logo.While I don't agree with everything he has to say, by and large I do. A lot of them, older and more modern, come across as design-by-committee, which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129659,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/07\/battle-of-logos-50.html","url_meta":{"origin":13445,"position":4},"title":"Battle of Logos 50!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Feb-16 12:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Go, my tribal sportsball team! Win against the evil sportsball team of that other tribe, with their garish colors and pagan symbology!If you told me that both the Broncos and Panthers logo were from the same design hop (if not same designer), it would not at all surprise me. I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Denver-Broncos-logo-psd567455B15D.pngimgmax%3D660.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6196,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/29\/logo_4.html","url_meta":{"origin":13445,"position":5},"title":"Logo","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 29-Apr-04 6:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, what do you know? A public aesthetic competition that I ended up choosing \"correctly.\" Denver has unveiled its new \"business\" logo. Mayor John Hickenlooper today unveiled a new Mile...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"denver-logo.gif","src":"\/blog\/images\/denver-logo.gif","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}