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Peloton's Stylish Post-Lockdown Ad stole its visual concept from Lowe's

Hacks at Peloton nicked a visual concept because they used the same post house.

Twin logos of the week: Meet Brave the browser lion & Workfront Lion

This simply amused me - am not saying these logos are identical or even inspired by each other. We've always suffered from trends in logotypes.
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Harnessing CATS to save the TIGER, times three.

Paragraph type: Text & HTML A while back, Swedish Creative (Art) Director Kenneth Pilo of Pilo Bold Me showed off his case study of the long-r
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Yes another (failed) suicide by car: Honda!

Joelapompe says that perhaps this idea is like a Zombie, impossible to kill, and he may have a point because no matter how many times this idea should

Hyundai suicide by car ad idea, officially older than dirt (one more!)

Seriously? Again?

One more suicide by car - this idea was already done back in 1997

Hold up everyone, the suicide by car Badlander isn't done yet. It's been badlanded
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Adidas is all in, as long as the idea stays the same.

Back in 1999, there was - according to all rumors - quite the dramatic pitch for the überhot account of Adidas.
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Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw beer bottles.

Work Labs is mad and they're taking it to the interwebs.
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Urban outfitters carbon copy of Truche's United world of Love design

The other day, when my way too cool for school teenage niece asked me if I liked Urban Outfitters, I bit my tongue not to roll into a Badland tirade.
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Calling Tarek Nour a copy-cat gets you arrested in Egypt.

Looks like I'll never set foot in Egypt again, as I did say Tareknour.tv copies pretty much everyone when I badlanded their series of rip-off fil
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Tareknour.tv copies pretty much everyone.

It looks like Marketing 3.0 has uncovered a factory-system of copied films, he posted "International ads Egyptianized" a while back, and now
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Jamba Juice searches for inspiration, decides to copy Get Your War on comic instead. Badland.

Many of you have laughed at David Rees's Get your war on, the simple political satire comic based on clip art and razor-sharp wit.

Burger King copy Resident Evil shirt with their own creepy ZOMBIE. Badland.

What the? Ok, fine, fair enough - people have been calling that creepy masked Burger King King-dude creepy pretty much since he first appeared.

Lowe Australia caught plagarising quantum mechanics lecture, donates money to kids science

Two months ago, Scott Aaronson discovered that an Australian Ricoh advert from Lowe had taken it's dialog straight from his quantum mechanics lec
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Logo Orange is actually a real lemon.

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Badlandamaged in da brain

Is there a support group for adgrunts like myself, or do I have to start one?
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Logo Twins, Quarks new look is Scottish Arts Council's old look.

Uh-oh! Quark express has decided to get a new look - the only problem is that someone else is already wearing it, the Scottish Arts Council.
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Nike is paying homage to... Or plagiarising?

Minor Theft - over at Pitchforkmedia one can see comparisons between Minor Threats cover art and a current Nike poster.
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Bottle voodoo between Bavaria and Brutal Fruit

In the old Marca Bavaria ad, made in Canada 2003 which created a stir back then, a man on a beach notices that how he moves the bottle affects how the
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Mastercard steals from Swingers = Priceless.

When the movie Swingers was released in 1996 the script and the story brought out the best from the actors in it and propelled them all to big time Ho
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I Smell a Rat - An Uncaged and Curious Rodent-Based Doppelg

If you live in the United States and have your television hooked up to something besides a rabbit-ear antenna, chances are you've seen a few thou
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Goodby Ripping Off. . . McClain Finlon?

To be fair, I don't know who is ripping off who here.
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Milk - where did you get that mustache?

It took me way too many years to find the "original" mustache campaign that I remember from when I was a little kid - found deep down in the
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Mama Mia that's a ballsy rip-off ...

Those who don't know their history are condemned to repeat it. But repeat it this well?
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Sex and beer once again

It's not a new thing anymore. Apparently you can't sell beer without putting in some sort of sexual visual or innuendo.
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lobsters pale by comparison.

Lobsters corner sunblock market. Prawns protest!
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Transforming ideas

It's been a while since we've seen this kind of Badlander*. The original is a web movie - an animation made by some talented freelancers
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I see ghosts - plural! - Interview with the creators of ghost

Here's a dupliclaim I never thought would happen, but I have seen many many ghosts lately.

Underground bands are really unknown.

Underground bands are really unknown.. And that is part of the attraction, no?
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Recycle your own ideas.

Recycling is good for your salary.
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