campaign logos

[pbrower2a]

Muskie 1972 primaries

AUGH! The colours! They burn my eyes!

The same principle applies as with the Wallace/Lemay bumper sticker: colors 120 degrees or farther apart, unless both are pastels, clash.

[Joe Republic]

Don't forget, in the early seventies everything clashed.

[pbrower2a]

Don't forget, in the early seventies everything clashed.

The 1970s were the Decade of Bad Taste.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Quayle 2000 primaries

LOL

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Not bad, these old logos...
Anyways... JOHNSON FOREVER !!! One of the greatest presidents in the history.

[Keystone Phil]

Don't forget, in the early seventies everything clashed.

The 1970s were the Decade of Bad Taste.

I think the 80s (in terms of "style") were far worse.

Quayle 2000 primaries

LOL

I actually like that design. The colors are obviously boring but the stars around the Q look cool.

[paul718]

Don't forget, in the early seventies everything clashed.

The 1970s were the Decade of Bad Taste.

I think the 80s (in terms of "style") were far worse.

Disagree.

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LOL

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I actually like that design. The colors are obviously boring but the stars around the Q look cool.
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Agree!  One of my favorites (the actual candidate aside).

[Keystone Phil]

Agree!  One of my favorites (the actual candidate aside).

I'm one of the few people that actually likes Quayle. 

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Johnson 1960 primaries
"I'm from Texas...I'm from TEXASSSSSS!!"

I'd say this is my favorite.

[JSojourner]

Paul,

This was WONDERFUL.  I think this would make a great coffee table book, if there isn't one already.  I enjoyed these so much and was surprised how many I remembered from back in the day.  It could be expanded to state and local signs that were or are notable.

The Carter and Alan Keyes ones were particularly awful.

[JerryBrown2010]

Don't Forget Hillary Clinton

[paul718]

Don't Forget Hillary Clinton

Do you find anything innovative, classic, clever, or aesthetically pleasing about that logo?  Kind of uninteresting to me.

[Lunar]

http://www.logodesignlove.com/obama-08-logo-design-options

Logo 1:


Logo 2:


Logo 3:

“We did see the O as standing for something beyond just the first initial of the candidates name.”

Logo 4:

“There was an idea of unity that emerged, particularly when we began to look at the red and blue, and how they intersected.”

Logo 5:

“Before we even arrived at the final identity we were aware of developing a number of options that had an element that stood separate from the typography.”

Logo 6:

“We developed a lot of logos. Usually we only develop two to four, maybe five. There were fifteen, sixteen options, and we focused on three.”


THE FINALISTS:

Logo 7:



“This masking of different photos with the O shape became an opportunity to say different things in different moments… The O could contain all these different ideas, possibilities and feelings.”

Logo 8:



"There was a lot of excitement about this. People felt this was really something new, something different. It was a kind of populist expression — everyone’s excited about Obama, people are talking… (but) it was a little too far out of the box. We felt that having a little more tradition in the mark was the smart way to go.”

Logo 9:
“For me personally, this was always the one.”


Originally the stripes were kind of symmetrically expressed across the horizon, and as we went into final refinements we felt that giving it a little bit more dimension, a little bit more motion, ways to enter into it a little bit more for the viewer was a better way to go.”

[bgwah]

I think the Obama campaign definitely went with the right logo. The ones trying to be clever with B and 8 being the same... well... it really does look like OSAMA when they do that.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I think this is a nice one; I like it more than Bush/Quayle.

[Mint]

Easily my favorites.

[??????????]

No left turn??!?!!? OMG You gotta be a moderate to win!

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

No left turn??!?!!? OMG You gotta be a moderate to win!

How was President Ashbrook's first term?

[Historia Crux]

A couple of the 2008 candidates ones...just shows you the 'originality' of the candidates!


Chris Dodd, President 2008


Dennis Kucinich, President 2008


Tom Vilsack, President 2008


Mike Gravel, President 2008


Duncan Hunter, President 2008


Tommy Thompson, President 2008


Tom Tancredo, President 2008


Jim Gilmore, President 2008


Fred Thompson, President 2008

[Historia Crux]

An neat one from the 1996 Presidential Election.

[Historia Crux]

The "Dornan for President 1996" one.

[Historia Crux]

The simple "Connally for 1980" logo


-looks like the "C" is eating the little flag-

[Historia Crux]

A couple of the 2008 candidates ones...just shows you the 'originality' of the candidates!


Chris Dodd, President 2008

I actually really like this one, but the rest suck horribly.

Agreed.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Jim Gilmore, President 2008

As much as I hate the man, I like Gilmore's banner.

[Historia Crux]

Though some aren't the best, a couple of 2000 candidate ones.


Pat Buchanan(R), President 2000


Nader/LaDuke, 2000 President


Orrin Hatch, 2000 President


Gary Bauer, 2000 President


Buchanan(Reform), 2000 President

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Pat Buchanan(R), President 2000


Orrin Hatch, 2000 President

These two are kind of cool.