Another Threadless design rip-off.
This has been brought to my attention for a while. I'm the original artist of this concept--in this sense. My design won back in early 2005.
http://www.threadless.com/product/254/We_re_Toast#top
http://www.noisebot.com/run_or_well_be_toast_t-shirt
People have been telling me about this one for the last year or so. The positioning is the same, the concept is the same. The only thing different is the art style ...Jesus Christ, even the title is ridiculously lengthy and therefore copied. I don't know if the artist is profiting from noisebot, but he definitely is getting credit.
What do you guys think? I know the war between toast and toasters is not really anything terribly new. But I think it's just a tad too close for comfort.
This has never happened to me. I'm not even really an established designer yet, I don't have a website up or anything. I'm still in school and it takes all my time up. I feel like this fact could be used against me if I even tried to say something. This is one of my only pieces to ever make it wide-spread to the public. And It clearly came first...and look what happens.
March 28th, 2008 - 08:38
The positioning is similar and the concept is the same, but you’re right it’s not a completely original concept – it has been done before (not to detract from your design, I think it’s cool).
I always come at these things sceptically… In high school I started drawing hearts with wings on all my books and the desks, then next thing I know there’s a great big poster designed by someone else for the rock eistedford. It took me quite a few years (and finding a doona cover with winged hearts) to accept that maybe she came up with the design as independently as I did.
March 28th, 2008 - 09:05
Yeah poss. a rip/most likely as threadless obviously gets copied all the time but just a wee observation – I saw this last week, ANOTHER version, I’m absolutely positive it was neither of these two I think it was more of a polished cartoony styled one, if only I could remember where I saw it, I’ll have to have a snoop, I remember thinking WTF but oooh how cute at the same time, it was exactly the same thing, a toaster chasing two pieces of toast/bread?!
March 28th, 2008 - 09:06
Oh actually rather stolen concept rather than straight up rip shall I say.
March 28th, 2008 - 13:48
I enjoy the original toaster better.
The slot as the mouth is better than a superimposed one.
March 28th, 2008 - 14:29
It helps bring more attention to your work as an “original artist”. That’s not so bad is it?
March 29th, 2008 - 14:33
That’s one way of looking at it, Andy. However; if you ask me, the crux is if they profited off your idea. Who cares if it’s a rip or a stolen concept. If they intentionally stole your idea to profit then there’s a problem. if they were simply paying homage to you that would be a different story.
March 30th, 2008 - 13:40
The concept is stolen, but ironically the second shirt is better.
March 30th, 2008 - 14:25
actually, that’s not ironic. since you are making a subjective observation, it is only ironic to you. i think it’s it ironic that cats are popular, antisocial pets; i think i am iconic. i think your statement was moronic.
April 2nd, 2008 - 02:46
logic chill out…
point is.. the bite is better. not a bite. toast goes in a toaster. not that original.
nothing is identical but the concept. the toast is different the toaster is different. the colors, the run marks. the positioning of the toaster, the details. its all different. lengthy titles my ass. lenghty titles are for fall out boy songs and other crappy music.
i drew a toilet chasing poop once when i was in 4th grade. now over 20 years later, i see someone doing the same thing with a toaster and toast. point is its an original thing, if it was a toaster chasing a fork, or a pile of cole slaw chasing a laundry basket, and THAN someone copied that idea, than yea bite. Otherwise, stick to sucking.
April 2nd, 2008 - 13:18
Agree with screwball on this. Something somewhere made you think of this idea which in my view also means that something somewhere will make others think of the same thing, before you did and many times after.
April 3rd, 2008 - 14:41
There are definitely people who use Threadless to copy other’s designs for use on a shirt. I have one I am about to post soon as well.
April 3rd, 2008 - 20:06
yeah, the second one is way better…im not sure if you are mad that someone used a fairly common idea that you had once thought was original, or that it took someone else to effectively illustrate it and make it worth my consumer urges. You got nothin’ here.
April 6th, 2008 - 19:39
how dumb do you feel now?
April 7th, 2008 - 23:59
they intentionally stole your idea for profit, plain and simple. i work in the fashion industry and know cheap and unoriginal companies that send their designers directly to threadless to knock shit off.
this is obviously a total rip.
May 12th, 2008 - 22:25
Here is another version of the same design, with even worse art…
http://www.zazzle.com/maromy/product/235918355810341361
But that site is like cafepress.
May 17th, 2008 - 01:08
The only thing you can claim to be stolen is the concept, and even the concept is not too original. I’m sure nearly everyone has heard the expression ‘We’re toast.’
Even if this was a rip, its a marked improvement over your original. I’m sorry to say, but yours looks like bad clip-art.
May 29th, 2008 - 05:59
I mean to be honest I don’t think either of them are very good, both better then I could do but I still don’t care for them. As for copying they might have seen yours and then put their spin on it. But as others have said before me, the design is not completely out of the blue and I think someone else could very well think of this. As much as we like to think all of our ideas are original and amazing sometimes others have them as well.
And if they did copy it then poo on them.
September 11th, 2008 - 14:37
I think you shouldnt be submitting designs to Threadless http://www.no-spec.com
December 9th, 2008 - 14:11
The idea is the same…
All ideas have been invented, there isn’t much originality in anything these days..
August 8th, 2009 - 12:57
‘What do you guys think? I know the war between toast and toasters is not really anything terribly new. But I think it’s just a tad too close for comfort.’
‘logic chill out…
point is.. the bite is better. not a bite. toast goes in a toaster. not that original.’
Toast comes out of a toaster. BREAD goes in.