It Ain't Worth A Crap If It Don't Got That Scrap

Dear Edwina,

Inspiration for The Iron Lady poster… or just a coincidence?

I love your blog. I am new to this business and its crazy how much direct and blatant stealing goes on.
I may go back to real advertising where original ideas are celebrated, not glossed over because I don't 
have enough "scrap."

Image on the left is from Double Exposure Portraits

We love that you love our blog, comrade, but you’re missing a vital point in regards to scrap. By attaching those "references" to your sketch concepts you are simply assuring your client that you aren’t doing anything so alarmingly original that it might confound their target demo.

Comments

[Duck Phillips]

Another problem you have trolling ffffound or designspiration for your scrap is that everyone else is trolling ffffound and designspiration. So your scrap is their scrap.

[Duck Phillips]

Blammo!

http://designspiration.net/tag/double%20exposure/

[Iggy Nition]

Thanks, Duck. I'm taking the rest of the month off.

[Neptune's Net]

"Iron Lady" image is a colossal failure. The tepidly-retouched 3/4 Meryl has zero relation or transition to the cityscape. (Is she being assimilated into the Borg Collective?)

The source material's profile integrates well with the architecture. The art director shoulda stolen better.

[c]

i agree. if you are going to rip a piece off please do it better than the original.

[Peggy Olson]

I love Meryl Streep – but isn’t she a bit old to be playing the bride of Iron Man?

[sm-art director]

Are you guys shitting me?
The Iron Lady poster is a much better execution than the first piece.
Does ANYONE on this blog have any taste?
Or any positive opinions?

[Douche Bigalow]

No.

[Neptune's Net]

I agree, a pretty good concept has been executed - with extreme prejudice.

[Hungry Monkey]

The monkey doesn’t want art directors with good taste. It wants art directors that taste good.