you thought we wouldn’t notice

YTWWN: looks like they have all just used the same copyright free clip art - not a rip…

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YTWWN: Commissioned see here

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While looking an a shop here in Durban, South africa, called E-Squared, i came across a whole bunch of t-shirts with fullbleeds designs on them, except they were being sold as a brand called ROCKY… they werent even vague ripoffs! they straight copies!

e-squared even have an image of the ripped of design on their flickr page,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/esquaredfashion/2394898919/

unfortunately i wasnt in a position where i could take pictures of the other designs that were ripped off.

Fullbleed’s “Burning Bridges” design ripped off!

YTWWN: Possible inspiration but I would call this a rip… 

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I came across this logo this morning and it really looks familiar.  At first I thought it was the old NCR logo, but I couldn’t find anything on that.  Ring a bell with anyone?

I was handed this flyer last night. Banksy and threadless in one flyer! I’ve always envied these flyers as they always look cool but now I know where they get their “inspiration”!!

Originals…

Here’s a link of the person who designed the original OK101 logo.. KAB101

The OK101 Army logo explained…

(Left) Corporal Stripes (Right) Wildstyle Arrow

My very good friends @ OK101 have had one of their main logos
totally ripped off by one of Target’s own clothing brands “Maxx”.

The OK101 logo was designed in 2002 for there clothing label which
has been around since the late 90’s. It’s been used for all kinds of different
product and promotion including stickers, t-shirt designs, embroideries,
website (http://www.area101.com.au), flyers, books, paintings,
the list goes on….

OK101 (The Original!)

Target Maxx (The RIP OFF!)

The bad thing about this rip is that Target’s pricing & lesser quality
is competing with OK101’s original product which is still selling in stores.

Nrmal are a bunch of kids in Monterrey Mexico who call themselves a collective and the only thing they do is organize parties, dress like nu ravers take pictures of people in those parties and copy the cobrasnake in everything they do. But that’s not all they’re copying. Their logo is a blatant ripoff of NBC’s 1976-1979 logo. Check it out. The first picture is a sign with the Nrmal logo posted outside of one of their parties. The second one is the original NBC logo.

Received an email today from Crooked Monkey. Turns out Jay Jays has in fact ripped off their design.

In regards to their design they said:

“This is a direct knock off of our shirt. Amazing. We came up with this shirt in August of 2006 and produced it shortly thereafter.”

They go onto say that they have just appointed an Australian distributor and that they will have him check out a Jay Jays store to see if any other designs have been knocked off. Adding that they will also be contacting the company.

Lastly they thanked me for alerting them to it.

I’ll keep you posted if anything further happens.