Our local chum Scott Thomas, of The Post Family, in:
Friday, March 6, 2009 / UIC
725 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60607
6pm reception / 7pm presentation
Registration is $10 for members
and $20 for non-members
and $5 for students.
From AIGA:
Dubbed a “strategic and smart campaign” by Fast Company, the Obama “brand” has received much recognition not only within the design community, but also throughout the nation. Sol Sender and Scott Thomas, creators of the Obama logo and website, will describe their experiences in developing a political “brand” of historical impact. Carol Coletta, CEO of CEOs for Cities and host and producer of the public radio show Smart City, will moderate their conversation. Discussion will evolve around the logo that was created in early 2007 by the Chicago firm Sender LLC, in partnership with MODE, along with the materialization of Barackobama.com, which was designed, developed and managed by the campaign’s internal team led by Mr. Thomas.
The event features a special exhibition of posters from Threadless Loves Democracy: a challenge to design the most unique and conceptual call to vote – sponsored by Sappi Fine Paper, Threadless, Rock The Vote and Jones Soda. The event will also feature winning buttons from the McCoy “Get Out the Vote” button competition on 24-7designheaven.com. A limited number of buttons and posters will be available to all guests.
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AND at 3Walls Gallery, DISPATCH: February 20th – March 27th, 2009
From 3Walls:
In conjunction with the Southern Graphics Council Conference, threewalls is hosting an exhibition of political prints on cloth and we’re looking for your DIY election T-shirts!
Dispatch is an exhibition of grass-roots political efforts, the millennial DIY ethic, micro-capitalism and the intersection between the commercial and craft in print media. As a document of the hundreds of T-shirts that were designed and printed by individuals (for their own use or to sell at craft fairs or raise money for campaigns), Dispatch makes visible, en masse, both the artistry and sheer multitude of designs that were made in support of the 2008 presidential and associated campaigns.
Chicago, both the root of the president-elect Obama’s campaign and a city with a strong grass-roots ethic in both the arts and politics, is a natural host to this exhibition. Dispatch draws on this, celebrating both the artistry and efforts of these makers, while drawing attention to how artwork and micro-industry became both an important form of participation in the millennial political process as well as a highlighting how the 2008 presidential campaign both appealed to and drew on millennial DIY culture.
