December 14, 2008 · 9:46 am
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Rejected Obama Logos

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Logo Design Love offers up an interesting exploration of how the Obama campaign’s iconic logo evolved, including many of the concepts that were rejected as part of the design process.

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8 Responses to Rejected Obama Logos

  1. KEvron
    December 14, 2008 at 10:04 am

    i’m kicking myself for not having picked up the shepard fairey posters while they were fresh.

    KEvron

  2. redtory
    December 14, 2008 at 10:17 am

    No kidding. I think the original run was 350. Can you imagine what one of those would go for now?

  3. greenjenny
    December 14, 2008 at 10:25 am

    That’s very cool. I always liked the integration of the red with blue as a means of diffusing the tribalism and showing him as a candidate for all Americans by invoking the flag. Design students will be studying that one for years to come.

    I actually have an Obama button that my husband picked up for me in Chicago in the early days of the primaries. Very boring, no hint of any logo design – just his picture and name in black with a little yellow star. Amazing how things change.

  4. Tomm
    December 14, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    All the logo’s looked pretty good. Good post.

    I guess Obama was just marketing. “Tomm” could have had the same snappy logo.

    That, a teleprompter, and a brain and personality transplant and it could have been me.

    …opportunities missed.

  5. Werner Patels
    December 14, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    I think it could be an omen that Obama was elected in 2008. Look at the image you provided in your post: the “08″ looks like an O for Obama, and 8 is simply the infinity symbol. Does this mean Obama will be president forever?

  6. redtory
    December 14, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    Not unless they repeal the 22nd Amendment. ;)

  7. KEvron
    December 14, 2008 at 5:45 pm

    “Does this mean Obama will be president forever?”

    yes.

    KEvron

  8. CWTF
    December 14, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    Way to go Werner – seeing conspiracies everywhere…

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