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September 2009

safesmall1 practice safe design

Everyone and their grandmothers have made typographic posters using Helvetica and I thought it was about time I did as well. Anyone who’s watched the film Helvetica practice safe design will know the history of the font and it’s ubiquitousness, as well as the ease it provides in making safe, reasonably good looking designs.

So I figured if using Helvetica was practising safe design, it’d be considered the condom of fonts. Hence the poster. Larger image after the jump.

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December 2008

barack obama website

Imitation the greatest form of flattery? Wish I could get paid to “design” these sort of pages.

Via NY Times

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December 2008
YouTube Preview Image

*Update* Video has since been taken down, I’ll see if I can find another one.

I found it interesting that the reason the logo stands out from the crowd is because the company that designed it has never done a campaign logo before. Unfortunately, the way the camera cuts back and forth between the different angles during the interview can be a little annoying though.