Obama has a pretty good day:

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But I had to appreciate how design played a role in this trip. From Meaningful Distraction, we get this tribute to the Obama team’s attention to detail:

They note the nod to the Bauhaus tradition, which was very important in the early part of the 1900s, and why it was useful here:

As I’ve noted elsewhere, Obama’s design team is very, very good — they would know the history of German graphic design. Obama’s Berlin poster contains the same bold, diagonal lines and sanserif type which typifies 1920s -era German “industrial design.” … Many Germans will recognize this little tip-of-the-hat, and those that recognize it will appreciate it.

Not quite the butterfly ballot, but still a case of design and politics intersecting.