{"id":7201,"date":"2004-10-10T13:54:25","date_gmt":"2004-10-10T20:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/10\/bumper-sticker-politics.html"},"modified":"2004-10-10T13:54:25","modified_gmt":"2004-10-10T20:54:25","slug":"bumper_sticker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/10\/bumper_sticker.html","title":{"rendered":"Bumper sticker politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obviously folks design things to convey a message, political bumper stickers not least of all. So this analysis of the standard Bush v. Kerry stickers<\/a> is sort of interesting. <\/p>\n

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\nIs it relevant, though? Does the public really pay attention to some of these typographic and design niceties? Obviously there’s thought to be some correlation, since otherwise the candidates just throw out basic black Times Roman on a white background, but is there a point where the distinctions between colors and font selection becomes lost on the body politic? Is there a point where the distinction becomes simply unconscious? And how much info actually gets conveyed at that point?<\/p>\n

I dunno. But it’s still kind of fun to see how much some folks read into (or out of) these sorts of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obviously folks design things to convey a message, political bumper stickers not least of all. So this analysis of the standard Bush v. Kerry stickers is sort of interesting. 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