Are They By Chance Related?

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I think we should be told…. Within the space of 2 days we’ve seen 3 4 relaunches of websites, first from the Guardian:

Then from Gordon Brown’s leadership campaign:

Hang on – that Gordon Brown site looks a lot like the Guardian! Or is it just me?

Don’t think so. Look at the new site from Labourhome:

Well I’ll be blowed. All the organs of the left get a makeover on the same day and what’s more they look like clones of each other. What a co-incidence!

UPDATE:What’s this? I neglected to add the Labour party’s own web redesign:

Dear me. How frightfully similar. What a surprise.

Published by Palau

Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, washed the t-shirt 23 times, threw the t-shirt in the ragbag, now I'm polishing furniture with it.

2 Comments

  • sarah

    May 11, 2007 at 10:50 pm

    how the guardian can go from distinctive to uninspired is clearly beyond me.

  • Palau

    May 12, 2007 at 4:45 am

    To my mind it’s all about the rebranding and Brown-isation of the ‘left’: no-one’s actually leftist anymore, but all are being branded ‘progressive’.