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WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, ending a grueling marathon to become the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.

Campaigning on an insistent call for change, Obama outlasted former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a historic race that sparked record turnout in primary after primary, yet exposed deep racial and gender divisions within the party.

The tally was based on public declarations from delegates as well as from another 16 who have confirmed their intentions to the AP. It also included 11 delegates Obama was guaranteed as long as he gained 30 percent of the vote in South Dakota and Montana later in the day. It takes 2,118 delegates to clinch the nomination.

The 46-year-old first-term senator will face John McCain in the fall campaign to become the 44th president. The Arizona senator campaigned in Memphis, Tenn., during the day, and had no immediate reaction to Obama’s victory.

via the Associated Press

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Chris Cox is gearing up to print some of his posters this summer. Head on over to Change the Thought and leave a comment to let Chris know which posters you think he should print.

Our buddy Christopher Cox, the designer behind changethethought, has been seriously busy crankin’ out consistently good work. Atop his day job at Cactus(one of Denver’s most prestigious creative firms), his freelance career, and time spent in the gym(I can’t think of any other talented designer who frequents the gym… I said “talented”), Chris still manages to contribute to the art and design portal that is Changethethought - and in a big way. So, here’s a stash of some of Mr. Cox’s latest poster designs. You can find more print design, along with type, web, illustration, and all sorts of other crafty goodness in the work section of his site.

Our friend, fellow Colorado graphic designer, Chris Cox of ChangeTheThought just cranked out some great Barack Obama posters. Chris was asked by the local Colorado chapter of the Obama For America Campaign to take on this lofty taks and he certainly rose to the occassion. Chris kept the final files, small in file size, but large in content so they can be easily downloaded, distributed, wheat pasted, whatever… What an awesome project! All of the poster designs are available for DOWNLOAD on the Obama section of Chris’s site. Go get ‘em and show some support! Cox sure did.

Chris Cox is a busy man. With Cactus blowing up, he’s been bouncing around the country quite a bit. Regardless, he’s still up to his same old obsessive creation of awesome digital imagery, and it’s all pretty damn great. Have a look at some of Chris’s more recent self-promo projects. The typographical “Change the Thought” piece could very well evolve into a run of limited edition screen prints. We’ll see…

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Chris Cox, one of Denver’s finest, just wrapped up a stash of new designs/illustrations for some pretty heavy musical acts. Have a look and see what it takes to work with the likes of The Killers, The Postal Service, The Sounds, and Death Cab for Cutie. To see more of Chris’s work, check out his personal site here.

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Our boy, Chris Cox, yeah the same Chris Cox recently featured on juxtapoz.com, just sent over some pics of a couple of paintings he recently wrapped up. They’ll be on display for your viewing pleasure at IndyInk’s “Belly Full” group show tomorrow night. I’ve been fortunate enough to have followed Chris’s recent ascension into the world of painting. Mr. Cox is motivated, making moves, and droppin’ bombs of his own (arty little bombs) as if you didn’t already know… and homey can paint. You saw it here. So, bottom line is this, you know Chris Cox the graphic designer - meet Chris Cox the artist.

Here’s a chunk of the verbage that accompanied Mr. Cox’s email, “They are pretty serious in tone but I am pretty serious in tone about how totally fucked I think the preemptive war in Iraq has been.” Wordup Chris. Count on seeing a whole helluva lot more paintings outta Mr. Cox in the near future. Until then, peace the EFF out.

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We had a copy of The Onion laying around the office and we saw this ad on the back cover. This campaign is all over the place and we love it - so we decided to share it with all of you and give props to the Cactus and Chris Cox (their art director). Keep up the good work! Yo, if you’re not in the know, the star of the show in this piece is The 400’s very own Kris Fry.

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For starters I’ve gotta say Chris Cox is a really stellar guy. Aside from being a spectacular, illustrator, graphic designer, ad guy, and website designer - Chris can paint. I have proof. I, well we (the greater JoyEngine posse) now own a Cox original. Chris and his wife Alex came down to kick it yesterday and shoot the design-life shit and they left us with a painting. How fucking rad is that, right? The newly acquired Cox painting topped off a really great art weekend. Saturday night I took my Mom and Sis (who just happened to be in town) down to Dave’s gallery (Limited Adddition Gallery) for the Blaine Fontana opening where my Sis kicked down and bought me an early b-day present in the form of a Fontana print (you can see it below - JR picked one up too). I grabbed Lucian’s Ryan Bubnis painting that he picked up from Limited Addiction’s inaugral group show - which is Awesome! To really ice the cake Dave handed me a copy of BUA’s new book, “The Beat of Urban Art” upon leaving his gallery. Dave had BUA sign the book for me prior to his latest show at Limited Addicition (which I missed due to less than ideal time management and a heavy workload and subsequently feel like a real jack-ass and like I missed a major opportunity to be really, really inspired - I guess I’ve got the book though). Thanks Dave. Oh, prior to that we hit up the new Denver Art Museum where I think I drooled so much all over one of Murakami’s pieces on loan to the museum from the Logan’s that it’s now ruined. Sorry, Takashi. From there hit the The 400 to show off the shop to the fam and get them a peak at the rafajenn.com piece I recently acquired (which is unfuckingbelievably great by the way) Pretty arty weekend, eh? I think I’m beginning to understand why I’m broke… art?
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Our good bro Chris Cox, Denver local, of changethethought.com is serious about design. Chris pumps out, or better yet, pimps out, more rad, out of the box work than any one individual we can collectively think of. Mr. Cox has a new line of apparel available on his site, you can see it here - it’s all super fresh! Chris is also a regular contributor to one of our favorite online art & design portals, designiskinky.com and recently had work published along side art super-hero Dalek in the Italian design mag grabmagazine… impressive to say the least.

Here’s a sample of some of Change the Thought’s new work. Pay attention cuz this shit is ill 4real. En-fucking-joy! We hope you’r inspired. Like Mr. Cox we too aim to “Change the Thought.” Word to your mamas.

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Saturday was a big art day. We kicked it off with White Space 2 in partnership with BMoCA and Design Within Reach (find out more). A live painting art event at DWR. Our boy Markham “Shitty Kitten” Maes was ready to paint up a storm and did just that. The other artist participants included Pattie Lee Becker, Christopher Cox, Paul Kraus, Amanda Marie and Jenna Wilson. The art line up coupled with beats and vibes from DJ Segue made for a super fresh environment.

We gotta hand it to all the artists involved that put their shit on the line for everyone to see. Big Ups to our bro Chris Cox and Sherbert’s Jenna Wilson who to our knowledge don’t really paint (at least not traditionally) all that much - way to step up and crush it.

Ryan Batch of White Spacez and DWR handled shit to say the least. Nice Ryan. On two occassions throughout the night Ryan ceased the arty chaos, got everyone to shut the fuck up, and laid down the law… it went something like this - OK people, you all dig on this live art stuff, so SUPPORT IT. Make a donation at the door, buy some cocktails, buy some art for god sake - at least bid on it and help drive up the price, do something to support this scene. Ryan also made a point of repeatedly introducing the artists by name to really drive home their socio-cultural significance and get ‘em some name recognition.

Putting all bias aside (which is tough) we, well I, gotta make one last note: SHITTY KITTEN is nasty good and owned the room. Atta boy Markham!

Our bro, man on the Denver scene, Christoper Cox, the mastermind behind changethethought.com just redesigned and relaunched his site. It’s frikin’ cool. The site is exceptionally well designed and sets off Chris’s work really, really well. Chris is one of the most well rounded graphic designers we know. He lends a great deal of his fine art sensibility to all of his commercial work, subsequently Chris’s commercial design work is highly sought after. Peruse his portfolio and you’ll be feelin’ us. Launching in tandem with the new site are Chris’s latest t-shirt designs. They’re wicked fresh too, duh… and you can find ‘em in his online store (we can’t wait to get ‘em up in the shop). So, pilage ‘em while they’re hot - they definitely ain’t stickin’ ’round, and help Chris, and rest of the brethren - Change the thought. Word up.

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