so... I have to create a website for my IT 213 class... and so... I decided to do a non-profit organization site called Obama Yo Mama that is dedicated to uhh... making fun of politics.
My latest assignment was to create a logo for the site, and well, if you hadn't guessed, it is Obama as Yo Mama... as the site name might hint at...
And also for the assignment, I had to write a few paragraphs on the logo and why I chose to use it for the site. Part of the requirements were that the logo cannot be offensive, etc in any way, so I had to choose my words carefully. So... enjoy:
This humorous logo for the nonprofit organization, Obama Yo Mama, was designed to represent the comic relief that the organization wishes to create in this time of economic and political uncertainty. The logo is a parody of an image of Barack Obama that has been recreated as a stereotypical loving mother. The bright colors and wide smile are meant to help suggest a lighter feel to the logo rather than a darker, satiric one.
The logo for the site was also chosen due to its ambiguous yet inoffensive content. The nation's newest elected president portrayed as a grey-haired mother either brings forth sentimental reflections on the President's nurturing role for the United States or brings forth thoughts of the irony of a man who promises everything despite impossible odds, just as a mother does for her children.
Either way, the main goal of this logo is to first derive a chuckle from its viewers, and then give them comfort in the knowledge that Americans have not forgotten humor in these hard times.
yeah yeah... gag me... <(^t^)>
