Cut Paste Plunder

Thieves of the day: H&M “A woman has accused high...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:39:55 +0000

Thieves of the day: H&M

“A woman has accused high street retailer H&M of stealing a design from her hometown and using it as a part of their home collection.

When Tori LaConsay took the time to paint a sweet message on a neighbourhood sign she had no idea a lookalike design would end up plastered over merchandise on the retailer’s website.” Read More

It’s a Trend Trends arise through copying and while...

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:40:16 +0100

It’s a Trend

Trends arise through copying and while sometimes we even speak of a ‘movement’ (“A tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time, or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within usually a number of years.”) there is the problem of over-exposure and loss of meaning which will rapidly make that trend ‘mainstream’ and thus untrendy.

Pic: Above: Poster Design by Bob Wilson

Video: Steal Like An Artist Austin Kleon at the...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:54:38 +0100

Video: Steal Like An Artist

Austin Kleon at the Economist’s Human Potential Summit

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Appropriation: Yes You Can We all know Andy Warhol’s soup...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:34:26 +0100

Appropriation: Yes You Can

We all know Andy Warhol’s soup can. Sadly there are many horrific appropriations of the famous silkscreen by the Pop artists. Here are 2 examples that are actually good.

Why? Because the street artists Banksy has appropriated it to make a statement about contemporary British culture. The agency Wieden + Kennedy have used the can which has become a symbol of American capitalist society through Warhol in order to make a new statement about American culture, just after the inauguration of President Obama in 2009.

1. Andy Warhol. “Campbell’s Soup Cans” 1962Silkscreen on canvas, 510 mm × 410 mm, (Edition of 32), Museum of Modern Art, New York.

2. Banksy “Tesco Value Can”, 2005Screenprint on paper, 35 x 50 cm

3. Wieden+Kennedy “Ameri Can”. 2009
Rebrandng America for PaperMag.
-http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/paper-magazine-rebranding-america.html (03.08.)

"Don’t Try To Be Original. Try To Be Good."

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:19:43 +0100

““Don’t Try To Be Original. Try To Be Good.””

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I came up with that, but it turns out that Mies van der Rohe has said it first.

“Sharing is Caring” Pro Piracy Commercial “An...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:52:45 +0100

“Sharing is Caring”

Pro Piracy Commercial

“An altered zune commercial tells you why sharing so good.”

Everything is a Remix Part 2 by Kirby...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:46:00 +0100

Everything is a Remix Part 2

by Kirby Ferguson

“Creativity isn’t magic. It happens by applying ordinary tools of thought to existing materials…. These are the basic elements of creativity: copy, transform, and combine.”

"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:27:12 +0100

““Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?””

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Steve Jobs

Nice People Work Hard A day in the park having fun with...

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:03:34 +0100

Nice People Work Hard

A day in the park having fun with cardboard.

Hard W…..hat? Spend my days in the embossing studio. It...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:16:47 +0100

Hard W…..hat?

Spend my days in the embossing studio. It was hard work.

By Alexandra Strassheimer

"I am not trying to do something different, I am trying to do the same thing but in a different way"

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:04:28 +0100

““I am not trying to do something different, I am trying to do the same thing but in a different way””

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Vivienne Westwood

The Photocopier and I Do you know what this is? This is a...

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:25:53 +0100

The Photocopier and I

Do you know what this is? This is a photocopy of a print out of Anthony Burrill’s ‘Work Hard & Be Nice To People’ - it is just enlarged by +400%. Isn’t it nice how you can make something new out of literally copying ;) Oh the fun you can have a photocopier!

Fakeware Love this project! Designer Bea Correa is selling a...

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:06:59 +0100

Fakeware

Love this project! Designer Bea Correa is selling a range of rebranded FAKE handbags she finds on the black market. For this project she is authenticating faux products (mainly handbags) by branding them as FAKE and selling them under the brand name Fakewear. The aim is not to make a profit, but to promote discussion and raising awareness.

Source: http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fashion-knock-offs-fake-branded-handbags

Sharing is Caring

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:37:36 +0100

Sharing is Caring:

Sharing truely is caring…

An interview with a designer who loves to share…here

(You can download his stuff and use it too…yea, I ain’t kiddin’).

Typographic Collage I am still thinking about collage. As I am a...

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:24:59 +0100

Typographic Collage

I am still thinking about collage. As I am a typography girl I started looking at typographic collages, and I found a few good ones actually. Maps using the names of places has become a fashionable thing to do (sure you’ve seen one, if not check here).

Using type as image is another way. Check out the art of Matthew Cusick, he uses maps to make images. The above image is another example where black and white type is arranged accoring to background colour. Kinda cool.

I’ll see how I can incorporate this into my project. So stay tuned!

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On Taking Ideas Further This is a very successful “Work...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:05:18 +0100

On Taking Ideas Further

This is a very successful “Work Hard & Be Nice To People” appropriation. It is an illustration that was done by Owen Gatley ,for the YCN HQ editorials for their Annual, 2010/11.

It is a good example of how an idea can be taken further. The artists simply ‘borrowed’ the idea in order to make an illustration of it. There is a reference to A.B.’s design by using a similar typeface and deliberate choice of ampersand as the title or description, but the text is aligned left. Without the actual words as a description the audience would probably not understand the illustration.

It’s a very nice illustration - I like it. A.B. seems to like it too.

Agreed?

On Collage & Photomontage I have been thinking about collage...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:31:38 +0100

On Collage & Photomontage

I have been thinking about collage today. We all seem to love collage (if done well), whether we are designers, artists or anybody, really.

Collage is actually the sincerest form of “cutting, pasting & plundering” in the sense that you ‘borrow’ any preexisting graphic, illustration, pattern, paper or newspaper that you can find and reassemble it into something new. It is the truest method of taking something and making it your own.

That method of working seems to be fine and accepted within the arts and within design.

Or are there any boundaries?

Thank you http://berlingotiere.tumblr.com/ for sharing this with...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:16:55 +0100

Thank you http://berlingotiere.tumblr.com/ for sharing this with me!

Tumblr on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/3111854

On Command Posters I like this. But I cannot help but wonder...

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:10:22 +0100

On Command Posters

I like this.

But I cannot help but wonder about these, what I call “command posters” and why they seem to “speak to people” (literally) in the way that they do these days? Granted, they are usually inspirational or motivational in some way, shape or form and that is always good. Additionally words (or typographic posters) are immediate, which seems to be a good way of communicating in our fast-paced world.

Back in the day motivational slogans to the public were printed on banners and posters and used as a form of political propaganda, like the Keep Calm and Carry On poster. Today however you see them coming up more often, designed and distributed by all kinds of people. I am not being critical about that in any way. I actually like them, a lot. But, I am wondering about this trend.

"Talent borrows, genius steals"

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:00:28 +0100

““Talent borrows, genius steals””

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Morrissey (Stolen from Oscar Wilde)