religion and design
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- kezza_2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europ…
Is using religious iconography wrong in advertising?
- brandme0
Hmmm
A very loaded subject with very subjective content.
If I was hindu that would mean nothing to me?
I think anythings up for grabs these days. Really come on the legal system would be clogged if everyone starts playing moral police.
- easy_target0
one mans art....
i didnt realize that the church owned the copyright to the painting in the first place?
but yeah i agree with brandme its a bit of a loaded one that
- kezza_20
certainly loaded...I guess
but I wonder if everything is up for grabs. I was fairly suprised that it was censored.
- Jaline0
It's such a heavy subject to really discuss.
All that stuff about separation of state and church and blah, blah, blah...and I'm not even really religious.
- brandme0
We have huge issues in New Zealand with design thats derived from Moari culture(the indiginous culutre of NZ) You have to ask for permission to use specific elements otherwise if it hits the media your mud.
So I have just contradicted my self. I suppose it's all in the execution at the end of the day.
- easy_target0
"The work is a photograph based on a painting, not on the Bible," said lawyer Bernard Cahen.
The campaign is said to have been inspired by Dan Brown's bestseller The Da Vinci Code which refers to the 15th-Century fresco.
all depends on how you look at it i suppose
personally i like it
- _salisae_0
after 25 years gods become public property
how it has been run until now
- kezza_20
you REALLY are drunk
- _salisae_0
yep
been working soooooo hard lately .. having a bottle of patrone gold
smiles all around :)