Les Otten Launches Gubernatorial Web: Mixed Reviews

This a.m. on WVOM's "George Hale/Ric Tyler" Show, Ric asked Les Otten about his logo. Listen to Mr. Otten's answer: [68 seconds]


Read More... Posted by woodman: Mon, 06/29/2009 - 7:33pm

The Ursus people should be ashamed of themselves, and seriously should consider consulting an attorney sooner rather than later. This is the most egregious ripoff of a campaign's marketing materials I've ever seen.

I don't know much about Les Otten, but he obviously approved this nonsense. What a stupid, cheap ploy.

And does he really think he's going to win a GOP primary using Obama's website?

Dean Scontras's ripoff of the Pepsi logo was pretty bad, but this takes the cake. Otten has even copied the glow around the logo. He's copied the fonts. He's copied the page structure and background colors. He's copied the terminology and he's even copied the ludicrous 'stare into the distance' photo.

Everyone associated with this production should be shamed out of politics. What stupid, stupid thing to do.

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Posted by Mike Travers: Mon, 06/29/2009 - 4:55pm

I think you're getting excited over nothing. The website obviously isn't ready to go "live", and it's common when designing websites to use "placeholders" until you've decided on what logo and/or content to put in. Take a breath.

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