Discussion: Designer Makes An Entire Font Out Of Hillary For America Logo

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Iā€™m no graphic designer, but do fancy myself to have a fair sense for aesthetics.

As an art reviewer might soften it: ā€œIt just doesnā€™t speak to me.ā€

Whatā€™s the point? (pun not intended, but Iā€™ll take it anyhow)

At least make all the arrows point up and to the left, and certainly none downwards. Geez.

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Heh. Thatā€™s cool.

This was, perhaps, somewhat predictable. Sheā€™s the frontrunner (both in the Dem primary and overall) and sheā€™s a she, so the MSM was going to be on mission to find something puerile to latch onto instead of talking at all about any of her positions, substance, etc. Weā€™ll be watching this happen all throughout the campaign over the next year+ā€¦nonsense designed to encourage people not to take her seriously, focus on childish things like her chosen campaign symbol and weapons of mass distraction vis-a-vis elephants in the strawberry patch like Benghazi and her email. Meanwhile, even CNN, in all its vapid glory, managed to respond to Rubioā€™s announcement with a piece about his positions, which of course entailed discussion about his competitors positions and the GOP primary field. You know, just in case you hadnā€™t heard about them all and had their idiocy spoon fed to you yet on their behalf.

The MSM has appointed itself the great equalizer when it comes to national elections, and theyā€™ll be fucking damned if theyā€™re going to sit idly by while someone runs away with one when they couldā€™ve had a horse race narrative.

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Iā€™m a book designer, and this is a fun idea, but no, this design doesnā€™t function as good typography. Itā€™s a (fun but) lopsided mess.

The H with the arrow was a bad choice from the start. Itā€™s pointing to the right, which can be construed as something other than moving forward. It can also be turned upside-down to change the direction of the arrow.

The design should be unambiguous, and as tamper-proof as possible. Final grade is C. Class dismissed.

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Clintonā€™s newly unveiled campaign logo had been heavily criticized on social media for the mixed messaging that resulted from having the red arrow overlaying the ā€˜Hā€™ point to the right.

People, donā€™t get too hung up on symbology and semiotics. Things may not mean what you think they mean.

Before I retired and I worked for the US Department of the interior [Park Service, USGS, BLM], occasionally some idiot conservative in congress or some state legislature would get upset that the buffalo in our agencyā€™s logo was heading to the left. Never occurred to them that the animal was facing West [in a manifestly destiny kind of way].

http://www.doi.gov/ui/doi/images/doi-seal-200.jpg

I look at the logo as someone acquainted with vectors and graphs where the positive direction is to the right. Negative, of course, is to the left. Like it or not thatā€™s just the way the Cartesian system works. Big deal, itā€™s just a logo.

Now, if the arrow was manifesting from the top of one of the legs of the ā€œHā€ and pointing upward, my how Freudian!

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Yeah, I saw it like this:

Right = the direction in which we read English and numbers, so forward and progress

Left = retrograde, traditionally viewed as moving backwards when put on a page

Anyhoo, this shit is nothing but a big fat ā€œdonā€™t pay attention to what sheā€™s saying about anything that mattersā€ game.

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Same here.

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I think its meant as a spoofā€¦not intended as flattery.

Personally, I would have liked to have seen Ms. Clinton do a logo with a curvilinear approach, perhaps not the same as the mandala-type approach as the Obama logo, but something similar in keeping with the continuity with his Democratic administration. It also has the added benefit of being easier on the eyes. Curvilinear or flowing lettering also has an unmistakable female aspect to it in many cultures, including here in the US. Maybe something a little more Art Nouveau-ish.

And maybe a byline like: The hand that rock the cradle, rules the world.
Just Kidding on that oneā€¦

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Yup. Tomorrow, itā€™ll be back to a microscopic examination of her clothing, gossiping about all the ā€œinfightingā€ among her campaign staff and speculation about whether or not she and Bill De Blasio will have a major dust-up that will ā€œtear the party apartā€.

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Okay, on the ā€˜hand that rocks the cradleā€™ line, I just had to dust this one off:

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As a typeface junkie?
I must haveā€¦ the preciousā€¦

But yeah, I have to agree itā€™s kind of ā€˜mehā€™ in the execution.

jw1

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Perfect. Seeā€¦there ya go. Made me all teary again. Sheesh.

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Or something even more banalā€¦like whatā€™s that food doing stuck between her two teeth.

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LOL! Whatā€™s this about DeBlasio? How wonderfully absurd. I havenā€™t heard that one yet haha

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Schoolyard tauntsā€¦Its all the nutjobs have so far.

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Heavy sigh. These guys have way too much time on their hands.

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Not sure it is the MSM that is really the ones complaining all that much about her logo. Any one with a sense of design and branding would find it boring as hell and says little or nothing.

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But, now, lots of people are talking about it, thereby increasing its visibility and recognition. IIRC, Obamaā€™s logo, though arguably much better, was also subject to much scrutiny and criticism.

A Red arrow pointing forward? Obviously, a thinly veiled call to arms for Hillary to take over the next phase of Obamaā€™s plot to move forward with the Red-Commie plot to overthrow the government and enslave us all in socialist-utopiary!!!1!!!one!!!1!!!

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