A great read sent in by Steven Heller: his latest piece for the NY Times' Campaign Stops blog, "The Hardest Words." In it, he's once again taking a look at the presidential race from a design perspective. This time around, he's looking at a banner the Obama camp put up after Hillary Clinton dropped out of the running, thanking her for all her work in, well, trying to beat them? But any direct and obvious politics should certainly be pushed aside, as Heller wants an interesting conversation about how to interpret the visual cues given off by the image, so he makes a few remarks, then asks a handful of designers for their opinions. Here's one from an old friend of ours:

David Barringer, a designer and a novelist, thinks the "ice-cold blue" is odd. As an alternative to this banner "I'd do an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in a Political Drama," he says.