"Every revolution needs propaganda. VIVA VERDE!"

Is the guy on the right George W?

Illustration is awesome, of course it looks better on green (I don't like the square arround the other one) and you should loose the text, it's not needed at all.

Great work!

It wasn't meant to be George W but it does kinda resemble him.

your inspiration?



http://diegobarnes.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/soviet_propaganda.jpg

Awesome Job

uh oh.

cool! I prefer the one without the border as well.

Are these colors available for this comp?

the color on the right is available in this comp.

Yes that was my inspiration among other soviet designs, Ive been looking at a lot of different propaganda art from the 40's lately but, I made the lines and the color a lot softer.

I like it

i love the original poster, but making such a clear copy of it is a little cheap.

looks great, but yeah, it's a little too close of a copy of the soviet propaganda poster.



i think if you were forthright with borrowing from that propaganda poster, giving credit to the poster artist for the initial design, i would give you benefit of the doubt instead of "meh"



it was a pretty nice idea though

I like it, looks like communist design, which is cool!

calling it a copy is a little harsh. she clearly re-illustrated it. i personally think it's very strong and a good use of a very iconic historical piece. there's plenty of artists that have borrowed ideas.



in terms of it being cheap. this isn't clip art, this isn't a feigned attempt at creativity. if you don't like the idea, that's fine, but the illustration is, as far as i can tell, an original piece based on a existing piece.



I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS PIECE!!!

hope you win!

would anybody know who the original poster is by? i mean, it was probably made by some pencil-pusing russian illustrator back in WW2 that never got credit in the first place!



great idea. i don't know if it was intentional, but i like the juxtaposition of a militant propaganda poster being used for good. ;)

its not copying, its playing off the soviet poster. Amazing design i would wear it

calling it a copy is a little harsh. she clearly re-illustrated it.



Um, it looks like a photoshop filter to me.

love it!

"Um, it looks like a photoshop filter to me."



wow, I had no idea a twist on a well-known poster would have this kind of reaction, and if you look at the posters side by side you would see the pathing is completely different and clearly could not be achieved by a simple photoshop filter.

wardrobe, your comment is ridiculous! you clearly have NO idea what you're talking about!



i'm sorry to be mean, but come on!!!



high-five lacers!!!

I completely agree with spacechicken!



I dig your design Lacers!! Keep it up.

It looks like a copy to me.

Winter the artist on Apr 06 '09 your inspiration?



http://diegobarnes.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/soviet_propaganda.jpg



Not inspiration...plagiarism. I give it a 0 for effort...

Actually, I think about 90% of the shirts on this website are completely plagiarized...either from original artists or other artists on the site...

lukebouris:

http://diegobarnes.wordpress.com/page/2/

this isn't a recent piece, and as far as i can find, there's no artist given explicit credit for it. there's at least 15 people on this website alone who have used other propaganda posters as a jumping off point for their shirt designs. try doing some research before making inflammatory comments.

hahaha. this is a great idea!!! it might look kind of cool if it were "worn" a little, like it's been wased a few hundred times!



people need to lighten up!

not that i'm trying to call anyone else out but...



http://www.threadless.com/product/543/This_is_not_a_Pipe#zoom



this is "plagiarizing" two very famous, well publicized pieces... Mario Bros (obviously) and the text borrowed right from Rene Margritte's painting, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"

spacechicken, Ceci n'est pas une pipe is a play on art and pop culture, that's not plagiarizing.



this however is tracing someone else's work and while she added style to it by re-doing it...she still copied straight off of another piece. uncool.



zero.

and the mario pipe and piranha flower isn't?



i'm fairly certain the text from the rene margitte painting is right from/traced from the original text too.



i'm not saying that little g's shirt isn't a clever play on pop-culture, but how is one play on popular art (which clearly has re-produced artwork), different from another (which also has clearly re-produced artwork). you people are too harsh.

I think the difference here is that the mario shirt is more of a montage style of taking two elements and putting them together. Especially since the the pipe and flower in itself is not really an art piece, nor the text 'ceci n'est pas une pipe". Whereas in this case, the strongest element is the actual illustration and composition of the piece.

it doesn't matter what you consider "art". the mario bros. graphic element is from a copy-written source, and the text "ceci n'est pas une pipe" is from a copy-written source. show me who owns the copyright to the propaganda poster?



if it's a simple matter of the idea not being original enough for your tastes, that's fine. don't call it plagiarism if she's not claiming to have created the idea from scratch without any reference.

oh geez. It isn't plagiarism. It's satire. If you don't like it, fine- if you think its unoriginal, fine. But plagiarism is a serious charge, and you really ought to at least have some idea of what the law is before you go lobbing it about like a fun new ball.



Personally, I like the idea of this satire. The boxiness on the one on the right bothers me, even though it is a meant to recall the idea of a poster, but, in general, I like it.

yeah, i definitely wouldn't go as far as say it's plagiarism.



let me backtrack and say that i initially really liked this design and thought it was an original and great idea. but when i saw the propaganda poster link, i then felt a little cheated for thinking it was totally original. but you know, at worst, i would only call this unoriginal, not plagiarism.



i still think you did a great job recreating the poster into something very cool and relevant to the contest. keep up the good work! (and yes, it's obviously NOT a photoshop filter)

plagiarism |ˈplājəˌrizəm|

noun

the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.



This was traced...identical to the link posted besides the flowers. You can still see the handle in the woman's hand and the shadow from the hammer in the guy's. Not say it is not a nice twist on the design, but you should have changed it up a bit more...

par⋅o⋅dy   /ˈpærədi/dee]

–noun 1. A HUMOROUS OR SATIRICAL IMITATION of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.

4. any humorous, satirical, or burlesque imitation, as of a person, event, etc.



–verb (used with object) 7. to imitate (a composition, author, etc.) for purposes of ridicule or satire.



lukebouris, you must have better things to do with your time than repeatedly post about something that you've not mentioned once, but three times!



at no point did lacers ever try and pass the original piece off as her own. she was completely up-front when asked if the original poster was her inspiration and source.



i agree with snegoratchka. you should at least be able to READ THE DEFINITION YOU SUPPLIED and understand the situation completely before making a claim like that.



why don't you avoid inflamatory remarks and instead try and CONSTRUCTIVELY CRITIQUE the piece.

FLOWERS DO NOT HAVE HANDLES, THANK YOU



http://diegobarnes.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/soviet_propaganda.jpg

i think you about the sixteenth person to post the original poster coleblack. get over it!



maybe it's a flower in one of those florist-vial things:

http://www.easyorchids.co.uk/shop/images/T/60cc-phial.jpg



great idea lacers! keep up the good work!

It should say "recycle or else!!!" Their arms are wrong, look like they sprout out of their neck instead of having shoulders, especially the male on the right.

Actually the woman is fine, but the guy has no shoulder...

wow, the same image a friend of mine do like 3 years ago, isin´t that odd?



COPY CAT

wow - everyone take a deep breath and chill!

No one's ideas are 100% original - this is very close to the original yes but I thought that was the whole point behind the idea/concept!

I really like it - well done! :)

wow after reading all the comments i have no idea what to say. when i first saw it i thought wow this is very neat but as soon as i saw the original poster you drew your"inspiration" from it just kind of killed it for me.

"recycle or else!!"? i'm sorry MeanJason, but that's pretty bad.



at least "viva verde" kind of reminds me of commies - commie cubans at least (you know, viva la revoluccion and all that).



i don't care that the source art is represented here almost in its entirety; i think the play on the original poster is hilarious.



GOOD WORK!

Ok "She took an old poster and recycled it, so if you look at it that way it's fine"



But still...why the plants have handles??

Great reference! I say, lose the text and ditch the border and you have a great shirt.

It's great to take one of the most dictatorial, cruel and murderous governments of all time and flippantly use it for a green agenda. FAIL. Artwork and placement are great though.

i think the nazis have a fairly large lead in the "cruel, murderous dictatorship" category.



odfox, i hope your comment is in some way suppose to be sarcastically funny.

Freakazoid3000:

"One of." Hit wikipedia up for "gulag" and read about the reasons one could be placed there, and the admitted record of those killed versus the theorized.



I personally think trying to tie propaganda from that government, or from the nazis, to a positive message is sickening, and displays and utter disrespect for or ignorance of recent history. Just my personal opinion though, everyone is allowed to have one and write about it.

please critique me!



http://www.threadless.com/critique/41622/The_Mexican_Jumping_Bean

I don't think it looks like a filter. I think you clearly re-illustrated this. But it might be better if it were drawn a little differently. Only because there are so many blatant knock-offs on this site, you want to make it clear that yours is an allusion that you want people to realize, not a rip-off you're trying to get past people.

Lol Deathstar I was being sarcastic, since this is based off a propaganda poster.

great adaptation!

cool !

wow I have been reading these comments and its awesome to see all the different opinions out there, could we at least agree that the image is able to be seen by those who posses sight?

@ eatcho: Agreed. :) Excellent compromise.

On this last day of voting I want to say thanks to everyone for posting their comments good, bad or indifferent.