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fifty50
fifty50 aka Curtis Townson is a 28.2 year old boy, has been a member since April 15, 2005, has scored 491 submissions, giving an average score of 2.00.
  Sep 29 '05 by fifty50        18 Comments        Watch this      Share:  Share on facebook    Share on delicious    Share on digg    Share on MySpace    Tweet this    Stumble this    Share this on Kaboodle   
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Love the shirt, but when I was in Munich a few weeks ago I found this flyer for a club which used the same graphic on it. I don't really care which one came first but I immediately recognized it as a Threadless shirt.

http://curtis.nexteradesign.com/temp/motovino.jpg

Ash Sammy
Ash Sammy on Sep 29 '05 at 8:49am
:-0
staffell
staffell on Sep 29 '05 at 8:55am
Oh deary me. That naughty.
Tofu_Rok
Tofu_Rok on Sep 29 '05 at 8:56am
Where's the Threadless Special Task Force?
Tofu_Rok
Tofu_Rok on Sep 29 '05 at 8:56am

Naughy as Threadless or the club?
d3d
   d3d on Sep 29 '05 at 8:57am
it's a coincidence. didn't you notice one has pine trees on the left and one has a vespa?
staffell
staffell on Sep 29 '05 at 8:58am
easy to mask the tree out and place the vespa in. classic trick also.
d3d
   d3d on Sep 29 '05 at 9:00am
if they'd done just a little more to it you could excuse the similarities. like if the guy was having a picnic with a gorilla instead of the same girl at least then it would be a parody.
Tofu_Rok
Tofu_Rok on Sep 29 '05 at 9:01am
yeah the flyer looks fake as now looking at, he's cloned the trees and it just jarrs if you know what l mean.
staffell
staffell on Sep 29 '05 at 9:01am
Too late now though. God I hate crooks.
fastjumper
   fastjumper on Sep 29 '05 at 9:03am
i saw this one in a flyer:

http://threadless.com/submission/2624/newshoes

thieves are everywhere
d3d
   d3d on Sep 29 '05 at 9:09am
thieves suck but they're no big deal. they're only picking up our scraps. we stay one step ahead all the time while they do what they can with our leftovers. as long as we've gotten our use out of something before they steal it then i'm not bothered.
eyechild
eyechild on Sep 29 '05 at 9:16am
It's suprising anyone thinks they can get away with it these days, when people across the world communicate instantly on forums like these.

Appropriation to some extent is fine.. but please dig a little deeper eh chaps? A straight rip of something you saw last week spells creative bankruptcy.
bortwein
   bortwein on Sep 29 '05 at 9:28am
The things that make me think the Flyer took the art from the shirt is that area where the logo is on the art. They did a crappy job dropping down that area of texture. Also I think that butterfly is a cleaned up stolen part from Flowers In The Attic. Not to mention that the cars don't match the style of the motovino art, which no designer of that art in his right mind would do.
fifty50
fifty50 on Sep 29 '05 at 9:54am
I'm pretty sure the butterfly is clip art, the cars could easily be drawn in illustrator, and the dude on the cycle could be clip art or stolen from somewhere else. Funny that this flyer caught my eye as I was walking in the door to this club. Nice club though, by the way. They play punk / alt. / indie and have a "night beergarden".
Kettcar
Kettcar on Sep 29 '05 at 10:42am
Hi Fifty 50,I go regularly to the club you mentioned.I already call it my living room ;) .
Nevertheless the "artist" who created these flyers has stolen a lot more threadless-designs.There are around three more flyers with "mourning girl","blame it on your tv" and "game-set-match" on each of them.
KatieTheMofo
KatieTheMofo on Sep 29 '05 at 11:41am
I've seen a lot of companies/bands use Threadless images on flyers.

Actually, I just got one today that used Ask Me How I Became a Pirate (or whatever it's called.)
little_hobbit_feet
little_hobbit_feet on Sep 29 '05 at 12:10pm
I like your Fred and the Giant Eel picture.
2 days later
fifty50
fifty50 on Oct 01 '05 at 12:14pm
Oh. Poo. So it's nothing new.

I am ordering this shirt now. It's so sexy. Especially when it only costs ten bucks! YAAAAAAAAAAY!
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