Results tagged “Obama” from Grids

Scott Dadich on POWER Platon for iPad

What is a book on the iPad? It's a question that's being answered in many different ways (See: Al Gore's Our Choice, William Joyce's The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, Above & Beyond: George Steinmetz, and even SPD... MORE

Cover of the Day, January 28, 2011

Welcome to The SPD Cover of the Day. We'll be posting our favorite covers every Monday and Wednesday. Stay tuned for the best and coolest magazine and newspaper covers, as selected by our stellar group of experts. Time, February 7,... MORE

Obama Reqested Signed Copy of New Yorker Cover

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, is reporting that the White House asked for a signed copy of the February 1, 2010 cover showing a Barry Blitt illustration of President Obama walking on water--and then falling in.There was no... MORE

Designing Obama

An interesting note about sustainable printing from the new "Designing Obama" project:... MORE

TV Guide

Change is in the air, and it's affecting everyone! From Glen Karpowich, Assistant AD at TV Guide, a report about their cover story on stands now:We feature President Obama and his wife, Michelle on the cover and the issue includes... MORE

The Best $60 You'll Spend Today

Our friend and frequent collaborator, Jonathan Hoefler (who drew our sparkly new SPD logo), over at H&FJ, creators of many of the fine typefaces in use on this very site, just let us know that his "Artists for Obama" limited... MORE

Power Pens: The Art of Politics

There is nothing like a history-making presidential campaign to bring out the insight, outrage and humor in publishing's top illustrators and visual journalists. Curated by Edel Rodriguez, The Society of Illustrators is presenting the original work of twenty five top... MORE

Report from Denver

Attending a political party convention for the first time for any political junkie is an exciting and unpredictable experience. SPD being the non-partisan organization that it needs to be, I promised Emily I would stay away from politics, and only... MORE

Optima vs. Gotham: Campaign Typeface Smackdown '08

There has been much interweb chatter (some of it here! -- Ed.) of not only Hoefler & Frere-Jones's Gotham as the official font of the Obama campaign, but also of a graphic discipline and consistency throughout this election season that... MORE

Black Power!

My Saturday evening typically consists of the following: A late workout, maybe a swing by the Whole Foods, an errand or two, and then a quick jaunt by my corner deli for a hot-off-the-press copy of Sunday's New York Times.... MORE

Consistency Was the Key

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with The Economist's Democracy In America about the telling differences between Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's campaign logos and their various implementation strategies. Although this was something of a reprise... MORE

Blitt Storm

When the controversy erupted over The New Yorker's now-infamous cover "The Politics of Fear" last week (showing a fear-monger's vision of a post-inaugural Barack and Michelle Obama in the Oval Office), perhaps your first thoughts were not of the effect... MORE