{"id":527,"date":"2009-05-15T11:54:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T17:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2009-05-15T11:54:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T17:54:47","slug":"because-freedom-and-liberty-are-so-passe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Because freedom and liberty are so pass\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kim Hastreiter of the magazine PAPER asked 15 visual communicators (didn’t they used to be called graphic designers?) to come up with an advertisement rebranding the United States<\/a>. I’m not at all pleased with most of them. A rebranding campaign normally promotes a new image for an existing “product.” Most of these are more along the lines of “NEW! DIFFERENT! Not what we used to be!”<\/p>\n

These two images seem most egregious in their anti-US sentiment:<\/p>\n

Sorry<\/a><\/p>\n

No more US<\/a><\/p>\n

“Sorry” fits right in line with what Obama has been offering to the world. “No more US & them” doesn’t really work for two reasons: first, Obama’s overtures haven’t been reciprocated. NATO, Russia, and others have heard him out and said, effectively, “Yeah, whatever.” It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to break it. Second, having the only color in the image be the flag background of “US” makes a blatant stopping point at “”No more US.”<\/p>\n

George Lois believes that The One is the cure for what ails America:<\/p>\n

Nasty to Inspirational<\/a><\/p>\n

Alex Bogusky’s entry can at least be considered ambiguously – the concept of Che being inspired by Obama is positive if you’re inspired by Che, and negative if you’re not:<\/p>\n

T-shirt: Obama \/ Che<\/a><\/p>\n

The one I find most positive is this one, from Dan Weiden of Weiden + Kennedy:<\/p>\n

Spine<\/a><\/p>\n

Found at Adfreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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