Obama Replaces Bush On San Fran Street Blades ...

1924.Followed this one when a commenter at radar.oreilly.com linked my commentary on the 1991 Igor Vamos "Malcolm X Street" agitprank here.

They're having fun down in San Francisco. Here's a "before":

And, naturlich, after:

Follow this link to read the whole story (as well as the blog I nicked the illos from), and this link takes you to a San Francisco Examiner story about it.

All credit apparently to the Survival Research Laboratories.

And one post about zeitgeist AND street blades! Nifty!

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One More Bit About The Inaguruation ... A Promise Fulfilled In Photoshop

1922.Shamelessly stolen from this entry at the mighty Democratic Underground:

See what Photoshop can do for you? And it wasn't very difficult either, I'll bet.

I thought it was cosmically nifty that Inauguration Day came the day after MLK Day.

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Have A Nice Inauguration (Updated)

1920.Well, pretty much the best day in America ever is starting.

Time to hit the live feeds and the television. You guys know where they are.

Obama's been Presidentin' pretty fantastically up until now. It'll just get better now that he really is the President.

America, welcome back to the world.

Update 1022 PST Wow, yeah? Wow. The President can deliver a speech like nobody else I've ever heard. I am not often inspired by a speaker. This man knows how to crystallize hope into words.

And Rick Warren? That a man so renowned for motivating and organizing people could come off as so banal just leaves me speechless.

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The Obama Transition Announces The Official Inaguration Poster

1896.(Via Huffington Post) Here is the offical poster for the inaugural celebration of President Obama:

It's designed by Shepherd Fairey and continues the rather exciting graphic approach seen during the campaign, with a very limited, posterized color palette and the dynamic play of flat color.

HuffPo sees it this way:

It is the next step in the branding of the presidency -- a development that is not unique to Obama but one that he has used better than any other politician in recent memory.

Fairey's initial design -- a guerrilla style, dark-colored portrait of the then-candidate -- proved to be a political and cultural phenomenon during the campaign. The current edition plays heavily off those themes and it seems likely to be a major symbol during the inauguration festivities. The image will be available on buttons, lapel pins, stickers and t-shirts.

As a designer, I'd say that "guerilla style" is pretty much in the eye of the beholder. But that's as may be. I do agree on the branding viewpoint; if there were a Nobel Prize in Marketing, whoever's driving Obama's branding deserves it, hands down.

Regardless of what you think of him, it's hard to deny that, in the context of the buttoned-down world of USA politics, it's like a firework exploding. It's exciting and very new. I enjoy this style; it takes the average world of political visual design and splashes a big dash of hot sauce on it.

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