Keep calm and fuckoff
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- jonny_quest_lives0
No one tops Franklin Loufrani...
http://smileycompany.com/smiley-…
"Smiley® name and logo is registered in over 100 countries for 25 classes of goods such as apparel, shoes, jewellery, toys, gifts and publishing"
"Over 2000 icons are protected by copyright for all products and service worldwide"
- Hombre_Lobo0
I'm all for it, if someone has put loads of hard work in to bring something to popularity and fruition, they deserve to make some money.
BUT thats if they created fucking thing in the first place!! Not when ripping some old poster off!!
- even if he was the first/only one who'd rediscovered it that would be fine too.Projectile
- hans_glib0
- Horrible Typography™hans_glib
- kerning like a whoreCALLES
- you sure? looks the same as the original.Hombre_Lobo
- surely changing the font doesn't make a difference? Otherwise anyone else could change the font and avoid the trademark he's putProjectile
- maybe he's just too stupid to tell the differenceanimatedgif
- Projectile0
HAHAHAHAAAA!! I got quite the response
Call me now if you have anything to say, 07976 850 489
Sent from Mark's iPhone
- hans_glib0
wowzers... someone's not telling the truth somewhere:
o the question in this case is whether the phrase “Keep Calm And Carry On” is being used as an everyday phrase, or whether it has become distinctive so as to suggest that products bearing the phrase emanate from Mark Coop and his company. Had other companies been putting the phrase on their merchandise for a number of years, then those companies would have every right to object to Mark Coop’s registration and the suggestion that going forward only he should be entitled to apply the mark to goods. But if, as it appears, Mark Coop has been the only person applying the mark to a wide range of goods for several years now, then there is every reason to argue that people will associate the phrase with Mark Coop’s company and no reason therefore to revoke the community trade mark.
- Projectile0
markcoop @ gmail.com
feel free to let him know what you think, y'all
- CALLES0
- sellingCALLES
- .. in America if I'm not much mistakenProjectile
- monospaced0
This the font?
- nope.bumdrizzle
- no the C is wrong. As is the Rhans_glib
- and the M.bumdrizzle
- bumdrizzle0
http://www.yayhooray.com/thread/…
has a fairly big list of all the variants.
- Do you know what the font is, skbumdrizz?detritus
- i thought it was gill sans.bumdrizzle
- *sigh*
Come on, people, this is important.mikotondria3
- Jaline0
Every store has a modified version of this poster. And all the slogans are idiotic.
- capn_ron0
Fuck you Candy™
If i catch any of you people saying or typing this without paying me!!!!!!
- beautiful0
Priceless.
- dobre0
if the original designer is named (& got heirs) would this nullified Coop's right?
- mikotondria30
More importantly than all of this - what IS it if it's not a weight of Gill Sans ?
- The Cs are different to Gill and Johnston. Better, annoyingly.detritus
- aGREED. aNYONE ?mikotondria3
- dunno - it's a bit of a mish mash of various fonts. I wonder if it wasn't some generic wartime rip...
hans_glib - holy shit, i thought i was gill sans, but the C totally isnt gill sans. interesting...Hombre_Lobo
- what am i on, the C totally IS gill sans! its all gill sans!Hombre_Lobo
- Jimbo820
From:
http://www.keepcalmhome.com/
Accessed from:
http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/"A short history of the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On' poster! After being forgotten for more than half a century, a rare original of the now famous WWII poster was rediscovered in a box of old books bought at auction in one of the largest and most popular secondhand bookshops in Britain - Barter Books.
When the bookshop owners had the poster framed and put up in the shop, customer interest was so great that in 2001 the couple started producing facsimile copies for sale - copies which were soon copied and recopied to make of the Keep Calm poster one of the first truly iconic images of the 21st century."
Mark Coop, you're a turd.
- mikotondria30
Mark Coop™
Pay me, you snivelling bitch.
- identity0
LolCube™
- Jimbo820
I'm gonna trademark 'Mind the gap'.
I'm gonna make a fortune bitches.
Can we just get one thing straight, was he the FIRST person to print those posters (post war days obviously) because he said he started his business 4 years ago, I'm sure I saw those posters longer than 4 years ago.
- no the bookshop that found the original copy started doing it back in 2000 I thinkhans_glib
- stewdio0
I'm actually in favor of that guy. I'm not into his merchandise, but he played by the rules, created a business, and he's defending his territory. I absolutely believe him when he says these other cats (who by the way are trying to cash in the EXACT way he did) would never have given the phrase or its visual expression any mind until he came along and promoted the hell out of it. He's absolutely in the right.