Original
Client: Northwestern National Life
Country: USA
Less Original
Client: Teledymag commercial directory
Country: Kuwait
Archive for the 'Stock Images' Category
21
Sep
11
creative animals
The above is screen shoot of the “Artist” Deviant Art page caprozo911 http://caprozo911.deviantart.com/gallery/#_featured , notice that 85% of his work is either copycat, cliche’ or ghost ads!!! We have featured Seif’s “work” in the past in seperat posts so I will not duplicate the effort. Instead I will just post the links to the above examples from this blog and you can draw your own conclusions.
This is what happens when you copy and paste
Self portrait of the “Designer” wearing his crown with the GAP logo which we all know is an abbreviation of Guy And Proud.
Link: The very same haircut / Parasitisme créatif ?
Special Thanks to Joe La Pompe for e-mailing me this copy-cat example from Dubai.
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| Released: | March 2005 |
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| Brand name: | STRONGHOLD PET & HOME ANTI-PARASITIC |
| Agency: | D’ADDA LORENZINI VIGORELLI BBDO |
| Country: | Italy |
| Category: | Miscellaneous |
| Tags: | Press Advertising Agency: Tonic International, Dubai, UAECreative Director: Vincent Raffray Art Director: Peter Walker Copywriter: Vincent Raffray Photographer: Rainer Holz Published: August 2010 |
08
Jan
10
paper plane
Publihsed in Campaign ME, January 15th 2006. Page: 28.
Published in Focus Middl East Marketing Intelligence Report. November 2004. Pages: 16 – 17.
Stock photography consists of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses. Publishers, advertising agencies, graphic artists, and others use stock photography to fulfill the needs of their creative assignments.
A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time and money, but can also sacrifice creative control. – Wikipedia
Continue reading ‘Royalty-free images and their abuse by advertising agencies in Kuwait’
10
Sep
09
Gulf Marketing Review
GMR – Gulf Marketing Review 2006
Self promotion ad for a Science Faction stock photo library published in Communications Arts magazine August 2006. issue number: 346. Page: 229.
01
Sep
09
The return of the star tribe
Client: Mitsubishi
Country: Kuwait – August, 2009.
Source: Mitsubishi: We Love You Thaaaat Much!
Featured in Al Rai daily Kuwaiti newspaper. Page: 24.
notice that both photos are from members of the Star Tribe.
I thought we were through with this phase, I thought I had exterminated these pirated stock images in Kuwait after exposing them in my previous research published in Awraq magazine back in 2004; however It seems some nostalgic Desk Top Publishers have made a come back and awakened them from their tomb. So be it. Here we go again.
Client: BKME (Bank of Kuwait & the Middle East)
Agency: Horizon FCB
Country: Kuwait
04
Jun
09
Batata creativity
18
Apr
09
Before and after
Source: http://www.coloribus.com/admirror/silly_the_man_in_baseball_cap/
27
Mar
09
Go for gold
Source: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-4025494-climbing-golden-ladder.html
Client: Wataniya Telecom
Agency: Zenith Media
Country: UAE – Dubai.
The main visual and core concept of the ad is clip art!!! Check out an older post on this blog relating to this: source of inspiration
Clip art, in the graphic arts, refers to pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively in both personal and commercial projects, ranging from home-printed greeting cards to commercial candles. Clip art comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in an electronic form. Since its inception, clip art has evolved to include a wide variety of content, file formats, illustration styles, and licensing restrictions. Clip art is generally composed exclusively of illustrations (created by hand or by computer software), and does not include stock photography. source: wikipedia.
Published in the Times of Oman English daily newspaper. Tuesday August 18, 2009. Business section. Page: 22.
Published in Business News magazine. October 2009. Page: 46.
Published in Osrati magazine 2010.
Published in Al Maraa (woman) Magazine. Page: 33.
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