Posts Tagged ‘barack obama’
Obama is the Cool
President Barack Obama fist-bumps custodian Lawrence Lipscomb in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building following the opening session of the White House Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth, Dec. 3, 2009.
SimpleScott | Obama’s Creative Lead at An Event Apart Boston
At the 2009 date of An Event Apart, one of the speakers was Scott Thomas. Scott was one of Barack Obama’s two design directors throughout his presidential campaign. He spoke on the second day, but my friend Dan and I had a chance to speak with him at the first night’s after party. A couple interesting things he had to say:
- Scott was the person who chose to use the Gotham typeface as seen in all the “change” and “hope” material as seen below. John McCain’s campaign used the same typeface that’s on the Vietnam War Memorial. Gotham represented stability and a fresh start.
- Over 46 revisions were done before Barack Obama’s website design was finalized
- It was near impossible to contact Scott during the campaign via email. He would tell others to send multiple emails. He told his personal circle to just call him (also often repeatedly)
- Many people would come out of the woodwork to request one-off things like tattoo designs and the like. “We’re trying to win an election and you want a tattoo design?”
- Scott was not as heavily involved in the whitehouse.gov redesign, although it looks the same
Homepage designs of major news sites covering Obama’s win
A list of some major news outlets’ coverage of Barack Obama’s Presidential win. These shots are all circa 1:00AM EST on the morning of November 5, 2008. A couple have been modified to reduce height.
