The “GOPosaur”

In April of 2009 I was doing some design work for the Daily Kos when a request came from Markos Moulitsas: a graphic based on the GOP elephant that morphs into a dinosaur.

This came at a time when the Republicans lost the House, the Senate and the White House over the past two election cycles. Markos wanted branding to suggest that the party had become obsolete.

In retrospect, that might have been just a tad premature.

GOPosaur

This project was a rare example of instant gratification. From concept to delivery of final art took less than a day.

Within another couple of days the graphic was used on an episode of Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

It had legs, too… four years later it was used to illustrate an article in Mother Jones.

The GOPosaur is featured on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show.