More lazy club promotion…
May 4th, 2008 by chef
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…
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these guys are brutal they don’t give a shit
That’s also the Marvel logo: http://www.marvel.com/
they are djs, playing other people’s music, “collaging” it (if you will) to make something new. in a way, it makes sense that their flyer would follow the same conceptual path.
I believe the hunters hunting down the shopping trolleys is also a Banksy. Yep it is.
looks like there might be some david choe rippage going on as well.
I don’t even call most of these flyers “design” anyway.
It’s like getting mad at your kid brother’s garage band for ripping off Nirvana. You can’t take them seriously anyway, so what’s the point of holding them to any type of standard?
they also used this one
http://www.threadless.com/product/94/Permafrost_Pollution
so many rips in only one flyer! they should be ashamed!
I live in Swansea where that bar (Monkey bar) is and pretty much all the flyers are images taken off the internet. A guy I know called Alex on my Illustration course even told me that the designer in charge of creating the flyers just searches google for cool pictures. I don’t think I’ll be going down there with my portfolio now.
P.S. Mat Sewell did the girl running at the top. Or at least it looks like he did.
It’s my understanding that Banksy entirely endorses the reproduction of her work (for non-commercial purposes – whether this covers promotional material is up for debate).
Does that mean it’s a rip?
“for non-commercial purposes – whether this covers promotional material is up for debate”
i think a nightclub flyer has a pretty clear commercial purpose.
I have worked for many design companies over the last 10 years, and see this everyday, people do nor realise that we are under dead lines that you would not believe, get 10+ fliers done in a week, plus ad campaigns, websites etc the list is endless – but the staff limit never rises or do the wages, so to the un informed the flier looks okay and who cares.
The “This Was Supposed to be the Future” mantra was ripped (by the Threadless artist) substantially from a song called “It’s the 80s (Where’s Our Rocket Packs?) by obscure US band DA, as featured on their LP Vox Humana.
Mind you, DA’s main songwriter used to ahem “reference” William Blake, Frederick Buechner, Czeslaw Milosz in his lyrics rather substantially.
“It’s the 80’s, where’s our rocketpacks?” by DA (aka the band Daniel Amos), from the album Vox Humana is quoted rather substantially, esp. pill instead of dinner, date a girl made out of wires, etc.