A lot of times when he’s at a podium what you’ll see is, centered right beneath him, at the very top of the blue field that usually says something like “Change You Can Believe In,” it’ll be just that little symbol, functioning in the same way the Nike swoosh does. People look at that and know what it means, even though it’s just an “O” with some stripes in it.
Michael Beirut, on Barack Obama’s successful branding efforts (via Newsweek’s Stumper)

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