Vote For Me! City Council Candidates & Outdoor Print Ad Campaigns
Primary Day is Tuesday, September 15th and some of the Bed-Stuy City Council candidates in the running are spreading the word through outdoor print advertising. Over the past couple of weeks, postings have started to appear on streetlight posts, brownstone windows and storefronts. Each candidate has their own branding style and identity.
Incumbent Darlene Mealy holds the seat for the 41st Council District. Â The first round of print creative was more of an announcement of re-election and a call for people to volunteer. A large traditional poster in size with the American flag as background, including Mealy’s headshot.
The current round of creative is smaller and rectangular in dimension. Â Bold bright colors define the message along with the date. Â No headshot this time.
36th City District Council hopeful Tremaine Wright uses a clean, bi-colored layout. Â The use of a serif font gives it a more conservative look. Â The flowers hide Wright’s website, which is www.changeWRIGHTnow.com.
Robert E. Cornegy Jr. is also in the running for 36th City Council seat. Â His print campaign ads sits in the windows of some of the brownstone blocks in Stuy Heights. Â The look has a presidential feel – Ã la President Barack Obama’s campaign. Â Cornegy also has a 4×6 postcard campaign. Their team has invested a few dollars because the postcards are full-colored gloss with rounded edges.
Also looking to gain the office of the 36th City Council, Mark Winston Griffith’s flyers were posted along Lewis Avenue late this week.  His print ads are black and white print on canary yellow paper.  Could this be deliberate, benefitting their campaign both economically and environmentally (saving ink and using recycled paper)?
Have you seen any other primary candidate postings?
10 August 2009, 1:21 pm
I have mostly been seeing posters for city-wide races. As a result, I know that John Liu and Bill DeBlasio are running for something, but not the same thing.
10 August 2009, 6:16 pm
I haven’t noticed any in my immediate area. Maybe I’ll start seeing more in then next week or so as we approach voting day.
13 August 2009, 6:52 pm
I just began seeing a lot of campaign posters and literature being distributed.
I even passed a block party in Brownsville that could easily have been mistaken for a campaign rally for Darlene Mealy)
Commercial Printers are printing money (along with candidate posters)
Is all this stuff keeping with GREEN CAMPAIGNING practices(LOL).
Hey, it’s not a serious standard…I think I may have just started something.