Monday, May 19, 2008

Some interesting blogs regarding design "appropriation"...

Check it out....
Im NOT taking sides at all, but here's some interesting design critique....

Fuct design vs Obey design:
http://www.brghtnghts.com/blog/?page_id=46

story: "Shepard Fairey Threatens To Sue Artist for OBEY Giant Parody":
http://animalnewyork.com/news/2008/04/shepard-fairey-threatens-to-su.php

story: "Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey":
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/blog/2007/11/obey-plagiarist-shepard-fairey.html

story: "The Art of Appropriation" (thanks to Robert Wagner for the link)
http://www.supertouchart.com/2009/02/02/editorial-the-medium-is-the-message-shepard-fairey-and-the-art-of-appropriation/

story: Shepard is right, and the photog is cool:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/57787/the-colbert-report-obama-poster-debate---david-ross-and-ed-colbert

story: "AP alleges copyright infringement of Obama image"
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9652OD01&show_article=1&catnum=8

story: "Obey Saks Fifth Avenue?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/fashion/08ROW.html?_r=2

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just wanted to add this link to your collection!

http://www.supertouchart.com/2009/02/02/editorial-the-medium-is-the-message-shepard-fairey-and-the-art-of-appropriation/

Brian Liu said...

and the epic finale link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/arts/design/18fairey.html?_r=2