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Some things you just don't think about, such as design standards for a political party. This is an interesting piece of history and speaks to visual literacy. My daughter was looking through her google reader files and this site came up. The cover of the book caught my attention right away because I had been reading about the Nazi party for my presentation. So I found this to be an interesting read on a little bit of the history of the symbology for the Nazi party. It would be interesting to know if our military has a design standards manual. I am sure that there is something similar to regulate the usage of the logos for our different branches of the military. So many things that we see each day and take in without really thinking about them. When do we begin to look deeper into what we see, when it strikes an emotional chord, makes us laugh, makes us cry, or makes us angry. How would our advertising change is we reacted to more of it in a negative way when we are offended. Would the companies change their design standards if the public at large showed disapproval. Interesting concept when you really start to think about it. So do we continue to say, "oh yeah, that is terrible, but it doesn't really have anything to do with me personally so who cares". OR do we stand up and make noise to help make change happen?
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