techPresident - Design - Comments

design choice

Todd Zeigler — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:32:22 -0400

I don't think the Obama-inspired graphic is a design rip off so much as a deliberate attempt to reference the Obama brand. The piece the graphic supports, the Decision Center, is a point/counterpoint contrasting the positions of McCain and Obama. I think the McCain campaign used a graphic that references the Obama brand because it is a contrast piece about the different ways the candidates hope to achive change. "McCain's real solutions vs. Obama's pie in the sky rhetoric." Or something like that?

http://www.johnmccain.com/decisioncenter/

I think other aspects of the McCain site were clearly inspired by the Obama site (detailed blue background, campaign staring steely eyed into the future, etc.).

http://www.bivingsreport.com

fontPresident

Nancy Scola — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:16:56 -0400

Ha. Sounds like a fantastic idea to me. ;) Maybe we shouldn't go so niche, though. DesignPresident?

Typography

Rob Cottingham — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:34:37 -0400

Yep, that's good ol' Trebuchet MS.

So can we expect a fontPresident spin-off site? :-)

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