Designing Obama
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I know Scott, the designer of the campaign and publisher of this book.
He can't give it away for free since he has raised the money himself and published the entire 336 pg. book himself, using his collateral, equity, own money, etc...
It IS a beautiful book, with some very thoughtful written entries from Michael Beirut and Steven Heller - as well as every memorable design you remember from the campaign from tons of extremely talented designers and artists.
If you don't want to pay the COMPLETELY REASONABLE price for the $80 / 336pg. book, you can download the iPad app for $5 or download the entire PDF for Free.
Link: http://digital.designing-obama.c…
Scott has his own, at the moment, 1-man shop here in Chicago, works incredibly hard not only on this but a SLEW of great clients and is not making TONS of money on this (the cost to print the first run was MONUMENTAL - the book utilizes imported japanese book cloth (custom made for the book), 3-color foil, embossing, interior of book is 6-color with spot-varnishing and metallics, the paper is a really fine, beautiful stock.
If you all, as designers, can't appreciate the effort and quality of this one-man produced venture, I don't know what you could appreciate.
Get one.
- thanks man, it helps to get the story.zenmasterfoo
- no worries. If you are hestiant about buying an $80 book without seeing the interior, I suggest looking at the PDFidentity
- Well said ID... I really like it. Now, since you know Scott, if I buy one can you get it signed? ;)OSFA
- haha - probably :-)identity