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ObamaBats: 24 True Type Dingbats
Jeff Domke presents ObamaBats.
I’m proud to announce and share the ObamaBats! A collection of 24 high-quality dingbats featuring Barack Obama and various design elements. This collection is completely free for download, upload, distribution, use and modification. Use these dingbats to start creating your own Obama paraphernalia today!
No comments. Posted by tanner in branding, interwebs, politics on 29 October 2008.
Steve Jobs quote in enlarged TextEdit icon
While attempting to find vector files for my 24-hour brand/symbol/icon timeline project, I ran across an enlarged version of the TextEdit icon. I was pleasantly surprised to see a relatively famous Steve Jobs quote in the design.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.
Neat.
I observed 1,035 identities today.
After a long day of obsessively chronicling every logo, identity, brand or symbol that I became aware of, I thought it had to be publicly stated: I observed 1,035 identities today.
And, what did I learn? Read more. →
2 comments. Posted by tanner in branding on 8 October 2008.
Last week, a friend pointed me to the blog/portfolio of Mark Boulton. Mark Boulton Design has primarily made small websites for little clients; you know, such as the BBC and ESPN. Now, they’re tackling the infamous drupal.org. Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in branding, interwebs on 28 September 2008.
Obama-Biden: targeting youth with erroneous domains
Another example of the Obama campaign’s ability to target youth: MySpace and typos.
In an attempt to visit my least favorite social networking site today, I mistyped and accidentally wandered on over to myspaec.com. I was surprised to see Barack Obama and Joe Biden smiling and looking slightly to the left.
Under normal circumstances, I might be frustrated by this type of advertising. However, in this instance, I think its a rather unique method of attempting to gather interest from a specific population. Well played, sirs.
Though purchasing misspelled domain names is certainly not a new idea, it is an idea I haven’t noticed in mainstream politics before. I’m not convinced the Obama-Biden ticket has anything to do with this initiative; the whois information reveals nothing.
I attempted to contact the domain owner for more information. Who wants to bet I hear back promptly?
1 comment. Posted by tanner in branding, experimentation, interwebs on 16 September 2008.
This is a quote from Thoughts on Interaction Design by Jon Kolko, that I found especially inspiring today, and wanted to share it with you, as you go about your day, weekend, next week.
Read more. →
No comments. Posted by md in books, branding on 12 September 2008.
Experimental Jetset / 104 / Le Cent Quatre / Graphic Identity
Experimental Jetset (whom we interviewed in issue one) has been working on a graphic identity for 104 / Le Cent Quatre for a little over a year. Long story short, they resigned from the project and have offered the complete graphic manual online for your viewing pleasure. Read more. →
No comments. Posted by tanner in branding, conceptual on 9 September 2008.
Fill/Stroke Branding Experiments, Part 1, Shorty
To take the edge off a drab Monday morning, we present part 1 of an ongoing investigation of branding.
1 comment. Posted by Fill/Stroke in branding, conceptual, experimentation on 18 August 2008.
Since the original post regarding incspring.com and it’s practices, we got a lot of responses and comments, good and bad, incspring got a new logo (I guess they wanted to brand themselves better, the first time wasn’t right for them. hmm…) and Speakup did an indepth review of similar logo websites.
No comments. Posted by md in branding, interwebs, opinion, writing on 11 August 2008.
Pentagram says, “Get crunchified.”
Pentagram offers its newest brand for the Summer: Bobby’s Burger Palace. Read more. →
7 comments. Posted by tanner in branding on 25 July 2008.
