left: british knights shoebox, right: alist/staple design
pulled from “jeffstaple blog”
check this out. my brother in law, alist, did some work for staple design and had a show at their store/gallery, the reed space.
british knights (a well known shoe company in the late 80s/early 90s) hired a designer which took alist’s design and slapped it (aka stole it) on the boxes for their shoes. even leaving the names and staple company logo on it. back in highschool, teachers would call this plagarism and you’d be suspended. out in the real world, they’re trying to get away with it.
read more here…
