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2016: How the Elections generated brilliant creativity (even if the outcomes were a little undesirable...)

I like to look back on my tweets and posts from the year to remind me of the interesting things I've read, watched and absorbed. Usually I just list out the top cool things. But being that this year was a huge year of political change, I thought I would do a special version of the amazing creativity that came out of the two most surprising political outcomes of the year - Brexit and President Trump.

One: Romanians adopt Remainians:

Campaign by Romainia to adopt all of the Brits who voted to Remain-In. Very creative. Very sweet. http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/romanians-campaign-adopt-brits-voted-remain-eu/1400348?bulletin=campaign_agencies_bulletin&

Two: 'Fucking Vote' song

In an attempt to rally those too apathetic to vote - Rachel Bloom and the people from Funny or Die pull together a cast of funny people to sing 'Holy Shit You've got to vote'.

http://www.vulture.com/2016/11/rachel-bloom-vote-song-psa.html

**Three: Campaign T-Shirts **

Some brilliant examples of normal people doing clever things to help campaign for their chosen candidates. Reminds me - people are awesome.

http://time.com/4241434/election-2016-t-shirt-photos/

**Four: Jessica Alba's Nappy Brand **

Reminding the world that we shouldn't think left vs. right, democrat vs. republican - everyone (or every baby) just wants a cuddle - we are all the same!

http://creativity-online.com/work/the-honest-company-election-diapers/48868