Designing Barack Obama

By Matthew Yglesias
Newsweek's Andrew Romano inteviews graphic design guru Michael Bierut to learn the typographical secrets to Obama's success. If that leaves you hungry for more, don't miss this (non-political) web video featuring Bierut that The Atlantic did back in January: See web-only content:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/02/designing-barack-obama/43546/ And here's Virginia Postrel's great article on fonts.

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