Happy Presidents’ Day!

Or rather, Happy Washington’s Birthday (since that’s really what today’s date commemorates). Because it appears on many calendars as “Presidents’ Day,” I’ll go with it. Here’s a fun peek at how the nation is celebrating.

Presidential branding

Take a look at this fun personal project by Meg Jannott is a collection of quick studies to Brand the Presidents.

George Washington's "brand" Thomas Jefferson's "brand" Rutherford B. Hayes' "brand" Zachary Taylor's "brand" Franklin Roosevelt's "brand"

For quick explorations, I think some of them are quite stunning.

Wassail to the chief

Seattle Met magazine took a different and playful spin on Presidents’ Day trivia with “Potable POTUS: Seattle’s Ultimate Presidents’ Day Bar Crawl.” (Read the full article here.)

Presidents' Day drinks

A prediction of each president’s poison, were he alive today.

What would Washington have washed it down with? Their prediction: “The Bohr, essentially a Manhattan made with that white whiskey.” Aside from intriguing drink match-ups, there’s some interesting presidential trivia here…I’ll drink to that!