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Intermission: Nike Ripping from Threadless?

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Over at Threadless, there’s a shirt called Spoilt. The design consists of numerous movie/book spoilers crammed onto the front of the shirt; red and white graphics on black fabric.

Overall, a pretty effective design that makes good use of varying font faces and iconic graphics. Just the other day, I was wandering back to my car at the mall, when I passed a display in Macy’s for Jumpman, Michael Jordan’s Nike offshoot brand. A particular shirt caught my attention.

Many (all?) of Jordan’s career accomplishments crammed into a rectangle on the front of a shirt. Red/white graphics on a black shirt. To me at least, the connection was instantaneous. I saw this shirt, I immediately thought of Spoilt. So, honest coincidence, or did some designer over at Jumpman just get lazy?  What are your thoughts?

1 Comment so far

1. Aaron  —  April 16, 2009 at 3:38 pm

   Totally stolen. Everybody steals. You steal, I steal, Bill Gates steals. When we eat a hamburger, that’s right, we have stolen it from the body of cow(s). In that way you stole your body. That’s right, there should be a warrant for your body.

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