Milton Glaser on Fairey
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- brandelec0
- The original poster rocks, while Fairey's fake can't even get the angles right.jimbojones
- zirkus_uk0
stop all the fucking Fairey threads you cunts
- JSK0
Thats an interesting article.
- Horp0
Having read Milton Glaser's comments I am even more inclined to feel that Fairey's work is somewhat bankrupt and indicative of the contemporary malaise in the creative industry. Bottom line is he could not have made that image without the original photograph.
Seeing the Fairey appropriaton of the Muller Brockman poster image confirms it beyond all doubt to me. Detached from the Obama arguement it becomes clear when looking at that example that it is rank plagiarism.
A combination of 21st century digital laziness and a lack of the requisite drawing skills led Fairey to sample this image and he probably could have saved himself all the crap if he had just asked the photographer up front.
- Spot on Horp.a_c
- Horp made me wonder if the Shep can even draw a face. Can he without a stencil?rylamar
- well, said.akrokdesign
- +1akrokdesign
- do your own work as best you can. make money, even better.nilsnihil
- I'm with you Horp - nicely expressedarthur
- thats exactly how I feel about him.slappy
- The_Lone_Ranger0
* bump for Silver
- fiesta0
oh wow propaganda style posters, thats pretty original IF HE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL STILL
- GeorgesII0
i'll keep on bumping this thread untill all those fairey fanboy understand he's a big fat phony
- aaux0
Shepard Fairey is a hack.. always will be a hack..
- fate_0
Twiddling about whether he is a hack or not aside, you do have to wonder why he didn't just secure copyright use for the work he appropriated.
Would have been pretty easy to just work something out with the photographer, instead of fighting the whole of the internet's bitching and a legal case.
- a_c0
Perhaps he just didn't cop the fact that when you move from creating subversive (not-paid for) stuff and graffiti to design/fine art and commissions, the rules change.
- Not that I want to defend him.a_c
- officer, i didn't know it was only 65 here. though it was 110. lol.akrokdesign
- aaux0
No way... im looking for the article now of Fairey trying to sue someone on copyrigth infringement on his work.. Its fucking pathetic.. The guy really is an arrogant asshole.
- acescence0
LOL, shep has "lack of the requisite drawing skills". your assumption, or perhaps something you read on the internets? listen, i did first year at RISD, as did shep. you don't get through first year at RISD as a hack or having no drawing skills. it's one of the toughest first years on the planet, look it up.
- my cousin went to RISD and all he did was take photos of nude girls with bags in their heads.zenmasterfoo
- on...not in...FAIL!zenmasterfoo
- i can't imagine it's really that difficult, having gone thru art school myself.arthur
- I've never fucking heard of RISD. I went to Central Saint Martins. You wont need to look that up.Horp
- MLP0
^ yeah... he's suing AP for suing him basically.
no one cared about it until now because he wasn't ripping off known and often living person's work until the past 5-6 years. before that it was all old propaganda that people shrugged their shoulders at.
- magnificent_ruin0
I am a hack as well, and couldn't draw if my life depended on it
- ItalianStallion0
Form the title I thought this post was about weird porno stuff...
- SteveJobs0
i mis-read it and thought it was about him golfing on the fairway
- marchelo0
I love shep! <3 <I'm copyrighting this, don't steal it!>
- katekelly0
After reading this, and other articles on the subject, I am sad to say that I'm still torn.
While I like and can appreciate some of the ideas behind his work...I still can't shake that nagging question-- what is he saying to, and about the design community when he uses images for 'inspiration'
- magnificent_ruin0
perhaps it's not that big a deal
- marchelo0
IDK, even though we all do it, I think all the bright colors and little characters for no reason at all and bullshit are pretty played out. I mean REALLY played out. Look at me, I'm an Artist. Cool! Shepard isn't doing anything Andy Warhol didn't do, so shut up and make something better. We ALL know he's hasn't done anything new in like the past 12 years, we know! No one has done anything significantly groundbreaking in a long time.