http://cmykaboom.com/blog/2010/06/23/seen-around-town-shepard-fairey-installations/ Machinations and musings of writer and art director, Cyn Passanante, on design, fashion, and things of an awesome nature. Sat, 18 May 2013 06:10:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://cmykaboom.com/blog/2010/06/23/seen-around-town-shepard-fairey-installations/comment-page-1/#comment-117320 Sandra Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:18:38 +0000 http://cmykaboom.com/blog/?p=3538#comment-117320 Same black background. Same font. Same use of all CAPS for cearitn words. Many of the new sentences are only slightly altered from the originals. It's clear to me that Fairey had a copy of Go 2 sitting right in front of him when he "designed" his poster.Of course, I have no real problem with that. I like the original cover and I like the poster. And it's not like Hipgnosis or XTC are going to be out any money from Fairey's lack of originality. I just think it would've been cool to give credit where it's due.(And now I'm going to go write a novel called The Great Gaspy. It's going to be identical to The Great Gatsby except the hero is going to be called Gaspy. Daisy is now Maisy. Nick is now Rick. Tom for no apparent reason is now going to be called Reggie.) Same black background. Same font. Same use of all CAPS for cearitn words. Many of the new sentences are only slightly altered from the originals. It’s clear to me that Fairey had a copy of Go 2 sitting right in front of him when he “designed” his poster.Of course, I have no real problem with that. I like the original cover and I like the poster. And it’s not like Hipgnosis or XTC are going to be out any money from Fairey’s lack of originality. I just think it would’ve been cool to give credit where it’s due.(And now I’m going to go write a novel called The Great Gaspy. It’s going to be identical to The Great Gatsby except the hero is going to be called Gaspy. Daisy is now Maisy. Nick is now Rick. Tom for no apparent reason is now going to be called Reggie.)

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