Comments on: Extreme Graphic Design Plagiarism

By: kirockk

kirockk — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:28:00 +0000

Some of these are intended as tribute or style influenced. But I’ve found one of my logos ( a panther) reused for everything from martial arts dojos, entertainment companies, travel companies and over a dozen different schools. Just lifted as is or just removing the border and changing the name. I have a huge file of all the different copies.
The person that I did the logo for holds the copyright and he has let it slip so its now public domain. Entertaining for me to watch how far it goes but thats all.

By: Yougotsblounskched

Yougotsblounskched — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:24:00 +0000

My thoughts exactly. I’m not bothered by the concert posters at all. The copies are satirical, ironic, or in tribute to the original art or message. This is in contrast with plagiarism, in which the copyist hopes to claim credit for the work as their own creation.

By: spanky

spanky — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:01:00 +0000

A lot of these are intentional “homages” if you will.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:13:00 +0000

Not all of these are exactly forms of stealing, if anything they feel like a different interpretation of the original design. I do think its fucked up when they literally steal images of it ofcourse. that just makes you look like a high level threat to design companies.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:13:00 +0000

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:13:00 +0000

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:34:45 +0000

agreed

By: Jermaine Wilkinson

Jermaine Wilkinson — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:28:08 +0000

This is why I don’t take most gig poster designers very seriously. On gigposters we get so excited to see a great new poster, and people comment about how great it is. Like Lure (plagerism) designs out of Orlando. We all thought this Against me poster was fantastic and so cool. The artist sat by and said nothing, to clarify that he completely ripped off the idea and it was not his. http://www.gigposters.com/comments/125639_Against_Me!.html

This goes to show you that the only gig posters we can trust to not be complete rip offs are the ones where the illustration was completely hand drawn.

I realize that gigposters are low brow, but completely ripping off artists as a rampant constant process by many, and just sitting back and just taking all the compliments is pretty screwed up.

By: LukeBB

LukeBB — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:54:05 +0000

What this article shows, is the ease of digital theft. People that mede the above blantant copies lack their own ideas, so they have to steal, it’s as simple as that. I do make copies myslef – I hand-print t-shirts, and aside my own ideas, I do use other people art (sometimes without any changes), but I always stress that the original artwork and idea is not mine. I’d be very ashamed claiming somebodyelse’s art as mine – now, think about art school student’s that copy other artists’ works and make it their graduate works —-> see http://www.youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com

By: Joann Sondy

Joann Sondy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:35:37 +0000

WOW! I suppose being aware of when/if we cross the line from emulation or admiration into blatant plagiarism is elemental to finding one own’s style. Throughout history, the apprentice copied the masters as lessons but this is inexcusable.

By: flowdavid (flowdavid)

flowdavid (flowdavid) — Thu, 13 May 2010 07:07:12 +0000

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By: virgin graphics // SALT IN MY EYERONY

virgin graphics // SALT IN MY EYERONY — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:50:20 +0000

[...] Here’s an article at World Famous Design about copying and intellectual commons and etc. I find this discussion interesting at this particular junction in my life because I often worry as I prepare my portfolio that I am somehow in capable of producing an original and creative image. I’m a pretty ravenous consumer of visual culture, and I really worry that that fact, in conjunction with my insecurities as a young artist, make me really susceptible to copying other people’s trademark aesthetic–even if it’s totally void of malice, a sort of “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” sort of thing. Granted, some of the works shown at World Famous Design are more visual reference (I think) than actual copyright infringement, though I suppose visual reference, by definition, is copyright infringement. [...]

By: Zsolt Sandor

Zsolt Sandor — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:58:06 +0000

excellent article, but there is a small error,

the russian space stamp is actually a Hungarian stamp

thanks
Zsolt Sandor

By: gerardo baston

gerardo baston — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:03:00 +0000

everything is made of everything, that’s the time we are living…

By: T H O M A S / / P A Y N E / / B L O G

T H O M A S / / P A Y N E / / B L O G — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:13:12 +0000

[...] interesting article on plagiarism in design, here. [...]

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Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:50:36 +0000

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By: check this

check this — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:20:23 +0000

http://aimeewilder.com/pattern/ < third pattern from right on bottom row (original)

and

http://www.leannekerwin.co.uk/ < click TFL Moquette link

By: Lil Tuffy

Lil Tuffy — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:25:52 +0000

The Brun poster above is credited. It says “Brun” below the cat on the gig poster.

By: Extreme Plagiarism

Extreme Plagiarism — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:02:49 +0000

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By: JDRE

JDRE — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:33:40 +0000

Another one!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shypsi/4441939487/

http://newgrass.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/bauhaus-1923.jpg

By: PLAGIARISM. - Friends Make Prints

PLAGIARISM. - Friends Make Prints — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:57:00 +0000

[...] This article makes me feel a whole lot less guilty about the poster I designed for my Undergrad Show at Utah State University last year (right). In my opinion I think I definitely turned it into my own by using the layout created by the ever so inspiring Aesthetic Appartus (left). I used Picasso drawings of bulls (my school’s mascot) instead of blind contoured horses. After reading the World Famous Design Junkies article on design plagerism, give me your 2 cents. Am I bad a person? Not once did I claim this piece to be fully original. And I don’t want to say that everyone should copy or that it’s ok. There’s a difference into what you make into your own and what you copy exact. Most pieces shown in the article are ridiculous. I repeat, RI-DIC-U-LOUS! [...]

By: ward Schumaker

ward Schumaker — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:47:49 +0000

Just a couple notes: in my view whether something is “art” or “commerce” depends more upon how I perceive it than the original intention. There are not many illustrations I consider art but someone like Gary Taxali comes along and does an illustration that meets my definition of art (purely subjective, something about how long I’d be willing to have it up on my wall, or if I’d allow it to be hung on my wall in the first place).
second: a few years back, a work by my wife, Vivienne Flesher, was stolen off the cover of CA magazine and used on tens of thousands of bottles of wine. We only found out about it through a friend who ‘congratulated’us. We sued and around our house the money she got became known as her “Petite Guggenheim grant”, allowing her to spend much of the next year doing personal work.

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By: Marina Córdova Alvéstegui

Marina Córdova Alvéstegui — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:35:11 +0000

- http://www.posterpage.ch/div/news09/n091128.htm

- http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5551512&id=179504196180

- http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5551513&id=179504196180

- http://www.grafitat.com/2010/03/16/prohibido-copiar/

It is a looooooong subject, isn’t it?

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:07:54 +0000

Most important comment yet.

By: L. Venell

L. Venell — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:58:13 +0000

Not to excuse plagiarism (because there is no excuse for it), but maybe if people stopped demanding so much design work for free, they would copy other people’s designs a lot less. I would imagine it’s much easier to justify phoning it in when you’re not getting compensating for your time and ideas anyway.