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brooklynite

(94,792 posts)
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 11:48 AM Apr 2015

AdWeek: 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 logo—a 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

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NM_Birder

(1,591 posts)
4. with all the hub bub of a "billion" dollar campaign
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 11:57 AM
Apr 2015


I give the "H" ........ a "meh", ..............she obviously didn't overspend on graphics design.

LiberalFighter

(51,170 posts)
3. How many times have ad companies failed in their campaigns?
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 11:57 AM
Apr 2015

By which I mean that adweek doesn't necessarily knows what they are doing.

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,123 posts)
9. Kinda hokey, but irrelevant. More concerned about her right leaning policies; we need a true progressive alternative.
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 12:03 PM
Apr 2015

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
7. nothing like a serious discussion of the issues here.
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 12:02 PM
Apr 2015

Almost as thought provoking as discussions about her hair style or clothing.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
8. Off-logo, there's a pic of an elephant with a target painted on it.
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 12:02 PM
Apr 2015

The arrow is headed there.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.
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tridim

(45,358 posts)
10. Hear that professional graphic desingers? Keep your expert opinion to yourself.
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 12:05 PM
Apr 2015

I always enjoy it when corporations tell me that my opinion doesn't matter. It's so genuine.

 

Baclava

(12,047 posts)
11. she can afford a fancy sign if she wants - "a $2.5 billion effort"
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 12:07 PM
Apr 2015

"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)
12. It definitely could be better
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 12:21 PM
Apr 2015

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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.

 

LittleBlue

(10,362 posts)
17. Looks like it was made on MS Paint by a little kid. Also, I suggest a drinking game
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 04:05 PM
Apr 2015
This week's victim: Hillary Clinton!


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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