Subscriptions
Seperated at birth: Barack Obama and Carbonfund.org
There is a striking similarity between the logos for Barack Obama's campaign and Carbonfund.org:
Given the probable affinity between the two organizations, I wonder if this was an intentional decision by a designer trying to piggyback off the good feelings for another brand, or if there is some unwritten rule that liberal, environmentally conscience people react positively to round logos with a sun, field and sky. Because I definitely fall into that camp, and love the logos. Perhaps this is the left wing version of eagles and crawling terror alert tickers?
Technorati Tags: logo design politics obama carbonfund
[...] Read more here: Mark Allen [...]
Pingback by Obamability :: Seperated at birth: Barack Obama and Carbonfund.org — May 8, 2007 @ 2:25 pmI found this post elsewhere on the web:
"Thank you for providing the comparison between the Obama and Carbonfund.org logos. It is a comparison we hear about 1-2 times a month, usually from interested designers but sometimes from angry Obama supporters.
Both capture the imagination and message of what they are trying to convey and both have been highly effective. They do, indeed, appear to have similarities.
However, while one might ponder if the decision was intentional, we would note that Carbonfund.org began using our logo well before President Obama used his or even launched his presidential campaign.
Carbonfund.org's logo was used first, according to archive.org, a nifty site, on June 26, 2006, as can be seen here:
web.archive.org/web/20060627055935/www.carbonfund.org/site/
The Obama logo was first used February 16, 2007, a full seven months later:
web.archive.org/web/20070216073051/http://www.barackobama.com/
The comparison talk throughout the campaign and after was fun and Carbonfund.org even helped make candidate Obama's flights carbon neutral.
Thanks,
Eric Carlson
Comment by Daniel R. — April 19, 2009 @ 2:41 pmcarbonfund.org"
While one might ponder if the decision was intentional, we would note that Carbonfund.org began using our logo well before President Obama used his or even launched his presidential campaign.
Comment by ClubPenguinCheats — April 13, 2010 @ 7:42 pm