At least it’s not a hanging chad November 8, 2008
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Democracy, Grammar Attack, Obama!, Spellcheck, Wisdom.Tags: Change We Can Believe In, Dangling preoposition, Design for Obama, McCan't/Failin', President-Elect Barack Obama, Salon
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…The dangling preposition has just started to bother me. I’m preeeetty certain that all this time it should have been “Change In Which We Can Believe”.
…But I also think we should all just let it slide, because I’m NOT going to share the same grammatical bandwagon as McCan’t/Failin’ supporters.
ALSO, re: This letter on Salon
@ Blueflash
Damn snappy, dawg.
PS. I am not saying Obama is stupid. Obviously “Change in which we can believe” would just add to his uppity-elitist-arugula-eating image in a way that would not benefit his campaign.
I’m just saying that his platform is not exceptionally complex and his campaign style has not been particularly intellectual.— Rosenkavalier, 11 August 2008
(my emphasis)
I hope this is sarcasm, or if not, that the humble pie is good at this time of year.
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Barack Obama prefers Gotham October 31, 2008
Posted by Olivia McDowell in Art, Democracy, Design, Obama!, Pretty!, The Ether, Typography.Tags: Design for Obama, Gotham, Obama!, Politics
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{ rmastalerz for Design For Obama }
“Put the word “change” in Comic Sans and the idea feels lightweight and silly. Place it in Times Roman and it feels self-important. In Gotham, it feels just right. Inspiring, not threatening.”
— Branding expert Brian Collins in ‘To the Letter Born’, NYTimes.com
(Really, I just wanted an excuse to say how much I love Obama, Design for Obama and the global atmosphere of Democratic Optimism: ie. very, very much.)
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