Rips R Us
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- __TM0
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.
- Thesocialgospel0
That art chantry one really annoyed me. Mad magazine copyrighted use of the middle finger?
- designjunkies0
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
- BaskerviIle0
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
- duckofrubber0
Amazing how many of those cool gig posters are really just repurposed graphics from the past. Are there no original ideas?
- plash0
- i agreeutopian
- What the fuck. Yeah, Art Chantry totally ripped off the use of the middle finger. give me a break.Thesocialgospel
- pillhead0
- cunt punchflashbender
- ive seen this other places as wellscarabin
- pizzafire0
i think that article is ripping off http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice…
:)
- ckentish0
Its called Postmodernism guys... come on now
- ThePublics0
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.
- Hombre_Lobo0
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_spl
- lol yeh it is, the bastards! :DHombre_Lobo
- dibec0
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.
- inkpink0
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.
- inkpink0
anything with the same decade sure... "rips"... but i'd say most of these are acceptable.
- ukit0
- Meeklo0
dang