The Taoiseach needs a new photographer or website editor or both! I was looking for contact information for the Chief Whip’s office earlier and was questioning my eyesight and reaching for my lenses cloth.
There are three photos on the front page of the Department of the Taoiseach’s site today (screencap) including one where Mr. Cowen meets the Vietnamese deputy prime minister
and this one of him meeting the Belgian Prime Minister where well it was unfortunate the shutter stopped there and that it was taken by someone seemingly prostrate before the leaders.
They are out of focus, stretched across the page and well they hardly the most photogenic images of the leader of the nation are they?
And I’m not a website designer but isn’t the site over all just terrible?
I am a designer and yes, it is terrible. I had the misfortune of doing some work for these guys last year and their marketing peeps really have no clue- they wanted their site to look like Obama’s, regardless of whether it worked properly or made sense to the users.
I heard they even tried to squeeze Cowen into an Obama mold. They tried to apply the styles used in the Obama 08 campaign to FF and Cowen, irrespective of the fact that they are totally different people, with different ideals and you can’t just apply someone else’s style onto him- I hear they even asked someone to’obama-fy’ him forthe local elections (as in plagerise the artwork famously created by Shephard Fairey last year http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/shepard_fairey_hope_2008.jpg)
Shameless.