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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAdWeek: Is Hillary Clinton's Campaign Logo as Bad as Everyone Is Saying?
It wouldn't be an election season without a full-on Internet-fueled art-school-esque critique of a candidate's logo. This week's victim: Hillary Clinton!
Along with her campaign announcement on Sunday, Clinton showed off her new logoa big blue H with a red arrow striking through it, pointing to the right. Of course, the Internet freaked out and issued a torrent of snark-laden reactions to the design.
Critics commented on everything from the direction the arrow is pointing to other logos it reminds them of (cough, FedEx, cough) and of course made some other super-tangential-oddball associations.
http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/hillary-clintons-campaign-logo-bad-everyone-saying-164035
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Tells the story. Straight to the point.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)NM_Birder
(1,591 posts)I give the "H" ........ a "meh", ..............she obviously didn't overspend on graphics design.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,170 posts)By which I mean that adweek doesn't necessarily knows what they are doing.
Omaha Steve
(99,780 posts)Now a new Hillary?
that didn't go so well
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 13, 2015, 12:32 PM - Edit history (1)
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Almost as thought provoking as discussions about her hair style or clothing.
randome
(34,845 posts)The arrow is headed there.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
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tridim
(45,358 posts)I always enjoy it when corporations tell me that my opinion doesn't matter. It's so genuine.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)"But even as Mrs. Clinton attempts to set aside her celebrity and offer herself as a fighter for ordinary voters, her finance team and the outside groups supporting her candidacy have started collecting checks in what is expected to be a $2.5 billion effort, dwarfing the vast majority of her would-be rivals in both parties."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-to-announce-2016-run-for-president-on-sunday.html?_r=0
Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)Last edited Mon Apr 13, 2015, 01:19 PM - Edit history (1)
First things first: I don't think the logo matters one bit in terms of the campaign, and I think anyone complaining that the arrow goes to the right is just trolling.
That said: I'm not a graphic designer, but I do work in public affairs and so work with a lot graphic designers, social media experts, and web designers -- and over the years have picked up a bit on how they see things. So a couple of things do strike me about it:
1) Red-on-blue design is very tricky, and you have to pick the right shades to keep in from being hard on the eyes. This design fails in that respect.
2) It's really boxy. Boxiness is both boring and stodgy -- precisely the terms some use to describe Clinton herself, and what she's clearly trying to get away from. I know it would have been problematic for her to ape the Obama logo, but someone should have at least studied it -- because that was hands down the very best logo a presidential candidate has ever used.
I thought teh video was flat-out brilliant; this logo doesn't fit the vibe of the video at all.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)It is 2015 after all.
brooklynite
(94,792 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Every time Hillary, one of the world's most influential people (and worth ~$100m), gets called a "victim" we should drink. Didn't realize valid criticism of a badly made logo entitled a supremely privileged person to victimhood status.
Not that it is super serious right now. I only mention it because if Hillary and her media friends want to do the "woe is me" angle on every criticism as a campaign strategy, she's beginning to make the same mistakes she made in 2008. Voters will tire of the "Hillary had a sad today" in her Hamptons estate when they're living paycheck to paycheck.
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