Comments on: Change Has Come

By: Nikki - Logo Design Guru

Nikki - Logo Design Guru — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:21:29 +0000

I don’t think that obama will have much effect on design unless we get new obama logos to analyze or new websites. I sure do hope his “change” is in efforts to fix our miserable economy. We sure do need that. If that happens then it might change design in the way that more jobs would be offered and more designers can actually harness their talents and make a living. We shall see.

By: Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:15:28 +0000

Of course none of this matters because he is an awful human being, that enjoys killing babies. I wonder where the money came from to design this site…oh that’s right, pat yourself on the back because you paid for it. Hope you get some use out of it…

By: Marvin

Marvin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:07:36 +0000

@Niki…I was reading your write-up here and the link over at Creattica and I too like the redesign over the old one. I too am curious if anyone knows if he hired an agency or have they hired a team directly?

By: Niki

Niki — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:25:38 +0000

@liz I hope it does spark a design movement in the government sector. Especially government forms and ballots. AIGA has a interesting article on redesigning the presidential election ballot: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/design-for-democracy

By: Tom Jimenez

Tom Jimenez — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:56:30 +0000

This is a worth checking out as well, if any of you haven’t seen it. Some history of the Obama logo design.
http://www.vsapartners.com/news.asp

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:41:48 +0000

I think the design & online/social media marketing ive seen out of the obama camp has been awesome.

I wonder if this might spark a trend in local and federal level government agencies to pay greater attention to their websites and how users are able to interact with them?

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The whitehouse.gov website and the robots | 186 k per second — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:24:43 +0000

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By: Yael K. Miller

Yael K. Miller — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:21:51 +0000

I really appreciate you pointed out specific design elements rather than just gushing about the redesign (which I’ve seen from other people lately).

I feel the picture in the center is too large and especially too large in proportion to the box next to it.

The site now comes across as a common magazine/news WordPress theme which I’m not sure is good or bad. Especially when there are designers who’ve done this better. For example, Brian Gardner and Nathan Rice to name two.

And yeah, the White House logo coming into the nav bar is some nice coding but I feel design-wise it’s intrusive — the little swirly-pointy- thing at the end feels very phallic to me.

There’s too much blue. I know you need a base color but still…too much.

Not a fan of the italicized lowercase pairing of words in the nav bar. Drop “the” from “Agenda” “Administration” and “Briefing Room.”

Wrapping up, not a fan.

Side note on a code issue. It has been reported that the robots being blocked have been dropped from 2400 to 1. A number of people have heralded this fact as proof of Obama’s openness. I find it just odd. Of course, whitehouse.gov is going to get spammed but apparently they don’t care enough to block spammers that could slow down the site.

By: CreativeNotice

CreativeNotice — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:10:04 +0000

I agree, the new look is so refreshing. Anyone know if his design team is internal or hired out? I’d be interested to know who’s designing for the prez.

By: Tom Jimenez

Tom Jimenez — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:58:38 +0000

President Obama has certainly brought good design to the forefront of society. Clean, effective, yet powerful design. It’s well thought of and a great design “campaign.”