August 28th, 2007 at 5:04 am
The logos for next year’s presidential election seem to have two characteristics - most of them opted for a blue background and the American flag theme (red, white and blue). Four have their first name instead of their last name on their logo e.g. Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and Dennis Kucinich.
Classiest logo: Tie between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
It clearly shows they have spent a lot on their campaign starting with good logo designers. Honorable mention goes to Dennis Kucinich’s redesigned “Dennis” logo.
Catchiest logo: Fred Thompson’s “I’mWithFred”
Although it does sound like the old group Right Said Fred. (Anyone remember them?)
Most unique logo abstract: Mitt Romney
The logo is supposed to represent an eagle swishing though the air. The swoosh doubles up as a wavy American flag. (In the image above, it is in the 4th row next to Chris Dodd’s logo)
Worst looking logo: Mike Huckabee
The yellow somehow doesn’t go with the rest of the colors. Tom Vilsack’s logo is a close second. I don’t particularly like his large V emphasis. (Middle logo, 2nd row from the bottom)
Other notables:
- Rudy Giuliani’s “Rudy” logo is a classic one that just oozes simplicity. He is in a select group of people famous enough to be recognized by just their first name. Couple of others that come to mind — Arnold (Schwarzenegger) and Hillary (Clinton).
- McCain’s logo has a classic look that represents his military background. Subtle but to the point. Nice touch!
For their individual campaign websites, Obama’s site is the best looking with rich content features and easy navigation. Hillary Clinton and John Edwards come a close second.
Almost all of them jumped on the Web 2.0 bandwagon and made their sites more interactive. Obama, Clinton and Edwards top the list yet again for introducing heavy social networking aspects.
Rudy Giuliani’s site is a little disproportionate with part of the right hand sidebar sticking out of its margins. Besides that slight ugly part, his site is not too bad.
The least appealing and most confusing is Jim Gilmore’s site. His site www.gilmoreforpresident.com defaults to a blog instead of an informational site. That blog looks like a Wordpress template that you can download for free. He further confuses us by having another presidential blog. Gilmore has since withdrawn from the Presidential race.
Candidate Websites:
DEMOCRATS
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
John Edwards
Bill Richardson
Joe Biden
Dennis Kucinich
Mike Gravel
Chris Dodd
Tom Vilsack
REPUBLICANS
Mitt Romney
Rudy Giuliani
Fred Thompson
John McCain
Sam Brownback
Ron Paul
Mike Huckabee
Tom Tancredo
Duncan Hunter
Jim Gilmore
Tommy Thompson
I haven’t decided whom I’ll support. Have you?
3 Responses to “Presidential candidate logos and websites”
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yoshi said: @ 2:29 pm
August 28th, 2007
I dont’ know if it’s just me, but they all look the same to me. Yeap. I’m just not sure who to select for president honestly, because even the candidate with the best intentions seems to get corrupted by the office.
With absolute power, comes absolute corruption.
With great power comes great responsibility.
I love me my comics. :P
Libertarian Girl said: @ 4:53 am
November 24th, 2007
Actually, the logo you posted for Ron Paul is not his official logo. His official logo can be seen here:
http://www.yannone.org/BlogPics/RonPaul2008b.jpg
and on his official website:
http://www.ronpaul2008.com
The logo you’re showing as Ron Paul’s is the one sold at ronpaulyardsigns.com, a site created by supporters not connected to the official campaign, was made unofficially and clearly states at the bottom: “Not authorized by candidate or campaign committee.” (I’ve got one of the signs in my window, so I checked what it says.) You may have seen one of the signs around, but it’s not from the official campaign.
Personally, I disagree with your assessment of the logos. Obama’s, while unique, is one of the worst presidential campaign logos I’ve ever seen. I think Edwards’ is one of the best, personally. Hillary’s is better than her stance on the issues, that’s for sure. I like Ron Paul’s (the official one I linked to), but it doesn’t even say he’s running for President.
Elf M. Sternberg said: @ 12:59 pm
November 28th, 2007
I disagree that Obama’s is the best-looking website. Ron Paul’s design team went with a very striking layout, both in terms of a consistent use of colors and a solid sense of what columns are for. Red and blue are almost de riguer for presidential candidates, and Paul’s team has done an absolutely solid job using graphic headers with red for new readers’ attention and blue for “things of interest to returning readers”.
Unlike Obama (and too many other candidates), Ron Paul’s website has no splash page. That’s a big plus in my book.
Obama came in second in my survey of candidate’s websites.