There’s been a huge response on the web to the new Conservative Party poster featuring David Cameron. Ranging from questions around policy, to accusations of air-brushing, to banal graffiti (digital and otherwise). Here’s a selection of the many I’ve come across.
6 responses so far ↓
Even we can’t go on like this « Benedict Pringle // January 8, 2010 at 10:11 am
[...] Online Election Campaigns ← A few responses to new David Cameron poster [...]
Party Political Posters « Keep Calm and Carry On and other Second World War Posters // January 10, 2010 at 11:17 pm
[...] Thanks to Matt Buck I came across Benedict Pringle’s site on political advertising, which obviously is about to take off in the year of a General Election! There’s some great take-offs of the Conservative poster above (we all know I love a good subverted poster): ‘Even we can’t go on like this‘ and ‘A few responses‘. [...]
Faking it: The good, the bad, and the ugly. « Graham.Creative. // January 12, 2010 at 12:25 am
[...] The Bad: A prospective beacon of honesty, trustworthiness and transparency can be seen on a new billboard campaign with some pretty obvious retouching. Yes, it’s the next Prime Minister David Cameron. Now for someone who should uphold the aforementioned traits, his team have done a bad job with David seemingly unhappy to appear as himself. A little powder to take the shine away could have done it. My finer half is a Photographer, and of course most portrait images go through some retouching process – removing the blemishes with which the naked eye ignores, yet which a digital lens and lighting exaggerate, and in many ads featuring models, airbrushing. But removing the natural crows feet, softening cheek bones and Gaussian blurring the forehead on a politician is too far for many people. With some strong responses. [...]
angelnstar // January 15, 2010 at 2:44 pm
David Cameron has a great, healthy, glowing complexion, he doesn’t need to be air brushed. More importantly, it is what is between his ears that matters, (as Boris Johnson said apropos of another matter).
angelnstar // January 17, 2010 at 8:21 pm
http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/jokes-of-the-week/
Some jokes about that poster!
Is the political billboard dead? « Benedict Pringle // February 26, 2010 at 5:02 pm
[...] airbrush-gate, Tory Tombstone and #IveNeverVotedTory it’s understandable that the directors of communications [...]