Poster Plagiarism (2 Viewers)

[sparse]

Halfset poster designed by Mervyn Craig

And So I Watch you from Afar poster designed by a chinese criminal gang in Cork

your thoughts?

 

[therealjohnny]

Sincerest form of flattery?


a game of 'snap' taken to new dimensions?

 

[Goodbye]

Badly done.
The font is shit and E in "noise" juts out showing the limited "design" skills of the plagiarist.

 

[GO]

They're both shite for a start.I can't make out anything in the little pictures.

 

[HMD]

A. G.
A. G. R.
A. G. R. O.
AGRO

 

[quackster]

and you will know us by the way we watch you from afar

 

[quackster]

i love you, but i have chosen to watch you from afar

 

[Goodbye]

maybe she well, maybe she will

 

[therealjohnny]

There was something like this on creativeireland recently

A highly respected Irish designer used what he thought was an old book cover as the main image for a flyer

It turned out that it was a recent work by this guy

It raised a bit of hell and the artist was genuinely sorry and apologized to all concerned for his mistake

It raised the question though of what exactly constitutes design when 99% of the image is from some other persons work

For gig flyers and poster in the DIY /Punk scene I don't think its a problem at all but on a professional level I'd be pretty piseed off if someone took credit and pay for work I did

 

[bloopitybloop]

hahaha, i like how they only bothered to change 2 of the photos, but i also like the fact that they DID bother to do it!

 

[Unicron]

i love you, but i have chosen to watch you from afar

Other Austin bands don't work as well,

Okkervil watch you from afar would have to be some sort of vampire band.

Explosions as I watch you from afar.

 

[Anthony]

jaypers

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

wish someone would plagiarize one of my posters.

 

[plug]

haha! that's plagiarism alright! who's the rip off merchant?

 

[plug]

wish someone would plagiarize one of my posts.



see what I did there, I plagiarised Dutchy's posts and changed it ever so slightly..

 

[Gambra]

haha! that's plagiarism alright! who's the rip off merchant?

Looks like Livewire? They're a Cork/Limerick promoter

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

wish someone would plagiarize one of my posters.

WTF??!

 

[ann post]

fair enough its pretty mucha copy paste job, but its not the most oroiginal thing in the world to start with. a 9x4 table in ms word hardly constitutes a doctrate in graphic design like.

 

[Anthony]

that's the stupidest thing I've read all morning

 

[Wombaat]

Cheeky muppets! I like how they actually got a Cork AND Limerick poster out of my original. As long as I get the same e10,000 fee for both that Halfset paid for the original everything will be A-OK.
It's gas that they bothered to change 3 or 4 of the pictures so no one would notice.

Mervyn