spotlightOn : Politics
A great deal of our work on political campaigns have come through our friends at BuzzMaker and other political consulting firms. And while we don't specifically pursue this type of work, we're not ashamed to get our hands a little dirty.

French Election Tour • Center Stage

 
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French Election Tour was a series of election related events during the presidential election of 2017. We created the logo and branding for the marketing of the events, and the signage at the election night party.
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Center Stage is an organization associated with the Democratic Party in Washington, D.C. We’ve designed flyers, graphics, tickets and other collateral for them.
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USET • Martin O’Malley • Sadiq Khan

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Some of the same organizers from French Election Tour had earlier created the US Election Tour for the 2012 and 2016 elections. We did the identity and branding for both. Above is the logo system for the 2016 tour. You can see how the logo goes from a simple mark and progresses through different more complex iterations.
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A footnote of the 2016 elections was the candidacy of Democrat Martin O’Malley. O’Malley was a two-term governor of Maryland and for a moment was a potential challenger to Clinton and Sanders. We helped his campaign create memes and ads prior to their announcement, and also for a short period after the launch of the official campaign.
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Similar to other campaigns we’ve worked on, we helped a bit with the successful Sadiq Khan mayoral bid. In this case, we were not the primary designers, but adapted the existing brand work to new graphics.

People’s Labour Party

The PLP of Bermuda is one of several Caribbean Island parties we’ve worked for.
Some of the various collateral we designed for a recent PLP island-wide election.
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United Labour Party

The ULP is one of the major parties in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. We’ve worked on several ULP campaigns in SVG as well as in St. Kitts and Nevis, designing billboards, posters, walk cards, stage banners and manifestos in the form of books.
Large posters and a billboard for a recent ULP campaign. The poster on the far-left prints almost life-size. We create matching posters, cards and social media graphics for each of the constituencies plus sets representing the national campaign, about 20 versions in all for SVG.

East Orange, New Jersey

ECDC had us riff on a new brand to produce Ts and also make templates for bench cards and social media memes.

Political Books

A few of the political books we’ve designed.
book cover politics or books hate inc why todays media makes us despise one another
Matt Taibbi's analysis of the news media landscape
book cover feral house secession how vermont other states save themselves from empire
The fascinating history of Vermont's efforts to secede
book cover politics alternet the 99 percent how the occupy wall street movement is changing america
A collection of essays about the OWS movement
book cover alternet dangerous brew exposing tea partys agenda take over america
Cover and spreads from a collection of essays about the Tea Party movement