Rips R Us 2121 Responses

Last post: 2 years, 2 months ago | Thread started: Mar 8, 10, 2:06 p.m.

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• Meeklo

  dang

  

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  Dog-earMar 8, 10, 2:10 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  Yeah I mean cmon...

  Most of these would be called "tributes" rather than rips. Does anyone seriously think this will intended as a rip?

  

  BTW, I read and reread the blogger's post but I can't quite decipher what his intent is. It's completely incoherent.

  

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  Dog-earMar 8, 10, 2:11 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  OMG RIP!

  

  They thought you'd never notice.

  • I wonder what Spike would say about this? Or would he just shoot someone?– BuddhaHat

  

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  Dog-earMar 8, 10, 2:12 p.m. – Permalink

• inkpink

  anything with the same decade sure... "rips"... but i'd say most of these are acceptable.

  • oh. or as everyone else already posted.– inkpink

  

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  Dog-earMar 8, 10, 2:13 p.m. – Permalink

• inkpink

  not to mention they're all pretty much all gig posters... which is pretty much fair game to rip from history books as you please.

  

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  Dog-earMar 8, 10, 2:17 p.m. – Permalink

• dibec

  I guess that is a total valid point. A tribute is one thing, and a rip another. I don't agree that a timeline makes it more right. I noticed Mr. Fairey in there and I blew a gasket.

  

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  Dog-earMar 8, 10, 2:25 p.m. – Permalink

• Hombre_Lobo

  I hate that shit, soulless tossers.

  I once did a pitch to design agency wanting their website redesigned and developed. I did the pitch (informal) they loved the designs, but decided they didnt want to redo it all. ok...

  A month later their site looked identical to the designs i did. i should have bombed their asses.

  Bet you all have a similar story.

  • That's totally different than taking inspiration from a poster that was designed 50 years before you were born.– Frosty_spl1/2

    lol yeh it is, the bastards! :D– Hombre_Lobo2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 6:08 a.m. – Permalink

• ThePublics

  there's been unprecedented, exponential growth of the graphic design discipline over the last twenty years, and 90% of the designers today lack talent and originality, so the appropriation of older imagery is completely natural and it sustains the lower depths of the industry.

  the only problem I see with half this stuff is that the imagery doesn't correlate with the information.

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 6:35 a.m. – Permalink

• ckentish

  Its called Postmodernism guys... come on now

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 6:43 a.m. – Permalink

• pizzafire

  i think that article is ripping off http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice…

  :)

  • ZOMG divide by zero!– flashbender

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 6:46 a.m. – Permalink

• pillhead

  It's one thing to be influenced by a design style and using that style in your creative thinking and design layouts, but most of what we have hear is just a plain rip off, Sad really.

  • “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”– plash

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 6:50 a.m. – Permalink

• pillhead

  FFS

  

  • cunt punch– flashbender1/2

    ive seen this other places as well– scarabin2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 6:55 a.m. – Permalink

• plash

  

  
  Mad Magazine Cover (1974); Concert Flyer (1996)

  how about this one. i actually think this is fine. no issues in my perspective.

  • i agree– utopian1/2

    What the fuck. Yeah, Art Chantry totally ripped off the use of the middle finger. give me a break.– Thesocialgospel2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 7:02 a.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  The Toolbag Shepard Fairey made it on the list, congrats!
  Well, at least he is copying Josef Müller-Brockmann.

  

  • obvious tribute– designjunkies

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 7:12 a.m. – Permalink

• duckofrubber

  Amazing how many of those cool gig posters are really just repurposed graphics from the past. Are there no original ideas?

  • nope.– utopian1/2

    none– flashbender2/2

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 7:48 a.m. – Permalink

• Raniator

  

  • < pretty close– Raniator

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 8:34 a.m. – Permalink

• BaskerviIle

  A lot of those are direct lifts, mostly for concert posters where the imagery makes absolutely no sense in the new context.

  Also, telling how in almost all cases the rip is much weaker design than the original. It's not hard to make something original, so why do people waste their time ripping stuff off? laziness

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 8:42 a.m. – Permalink

• designjunkies

  Shepard Fairey rips and twists, this is different from just ripping

  • Ugh... you would want your claim to fame to constantly be reworking existing art or imagery?– ETM

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 11:29 a.m. – Permalink

• Thesocialgospel

  That art chantry one really annoyed me. Mad magazine copyrighted use of the middle finger?

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 8:17 p.m. – Permalink

• __TM

  issue with the art chantry/mad is not the concept of using a middle finger in a poster (which has been done plenty of times) but the fact that they used MAD's finger drawing, which is obviously copyrighted.

  

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  Dog-earMar 9, 10, 8:53 p.m. – Permalink