December 6, 2009 - by admin No Comments
Designing Politics, 1 Poster at a time
Although the US presidential election has come and gone, after seeing the recent Obama “Hope” posters become such a fad, we became curious about how past presidents portrayed themselves through the graphic design of their posters. After tracking down campaign posters for every president since 1900, we found a few things that surprised us: – Wow, the artwork on Theodore Roosevelt’s poster could practically have been used in this last election. – Jimmy Carter so far is the only President in history to have not used red, white and blue on his poster. Here are the posters: Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 William Howard Taft, 1909-1913 Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923 Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929 Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945 Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953 Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969 Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974 This Andy Warhol poster campaigned against Nixon. Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977 James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981 Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989 George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001 George Walker Bush, 2001-2009 Barack Hussein Obama, 2009
SLOGAN: “We stand at Armageddon and fight for the Lord.”
SLOGAN: “Vote for Taft now, you can vote for Bryan anytime”
SLOGAN: “He proved the pen mightier than the sword”
SLOGAN: “Back to normalcy”
SLOGAN: “Keep cool with Coolidge”
SLOGAN: “Hoo but Hoover?”
SLOGAN: “I propose (to the American people) a New Deal”
SLOGAN: “The Buck Stops Here”
SLOGANS: “I like Ike” and “I still like Ike”
SLOGAN: “A time for greatness”
SLOGAN: “All the way with LBJ”
SLOGAN: “For the future”
SLOGAN: “He’s making us proud again”
SLOGAN: “A Leader, for a Change”
SLOGAN: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
SLOGAN: “Kinder, Gentler Nation “
SLOGANA: “It’s Time to Change America” and “It’s The Economy, Stupid”
SLOGAN: “Don’t swap horses in midstream”
SLOGAN: “Yes We Can”
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