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Albuquerque Designer @Brite_RDesign & @90DegreesAgency Steal Cranksgiving Artwork
BREAKING NEWS ***… In a development that occurred JUST last night...***
All Along Press somehow stumbled upon this hilarious yet shamelessly bastardized version of Toky's Cranksgiving artwork from last year. We're not sure if they've also stolen the name and concept of the event or if it's something that's passed along for the sake of goodwill.
Original Artwork from Last Year's Cranksgiving
We immediately started lighting up the twittersphere and calling out the creative parties involved in such a blatant act of artistic robbery. Here are some of the ridiculous answers & reasoning we've received from Gregg McPhedrain/Brighter Design (a portfolio begging for your attention) thus far:
Since nobody can read the small type in that image without inducing retinal strain:
Bikeworks St. Louis has put on a successful event for 7 years now and we hope that our event will be that successful. When we saw their poster and looked into CRANKSGIVING after some research we knew Albuquerque needed this annual bikerace. So as an homage to the guys making their cities race a success followed suit. we was just the inspiration we needed to put on and succeed with our own CRANKSGIVING.
and that's how ABQCRANKSGIVING 2012 CAME TO BE -Gregg McPhedrain, Brighter design
We feel like we've entered a new realm of sense-defying stupidity after typing that out word for word. But don't worry, we're doing our best to make sure that Mr. McPhedrain doesn't think he's merely using a look & feel from a previous year's event promotions but rather that he's actually STEALING artwork and adding all sorts of shit filters to the final "piece". You would think that someone who's twitter profile pic claims that he's been in the business since 1998 would have figured out this is not an okay practice by now.
It's not really up to us on how this entire affair should be handled, that's between BikeWorks & Toky. We're just making sure that every little starfish get's thrown back in the sea of ethical business practices before the lack of oxygen makes them write another thank you note like the one above.
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FYI: Both STL & ABQ are official @Cranksgiving events: http://www.cranksgiving.org All cities have unique art though. Well, almost all.
As the designer who created the original poster, I wanted to chime in briefly. This was a project and cause that I felt strongly about. I took this poster on outside of TOKY for my own enjoyment and wanted to make it into something that I could feel proud of personally. I do. My take-away: Everyone knows who did what and who didn't. In the end both events are for a good cause, so let's not lose sight of that.
The art for Bend, OR is similar, too. http://www.cranksgiving.org/images/cranksgiving2.jpg
It should be noted that this is NOT referring to St. Louis's 90 Degrees West.
Some people in our office think it's the wrong guys. What a bunch of skimmers.
Good point.
I wonder if they were involved in this too.
Dear Jesus, You're Welcome!
Just a note:
We agree with Jamie wholeheartedly in that the events are for a good cause.
Although the behavior of certain folks is completely infuriating, it is no fault of the charity in Albuquerque. With that in mind we will be donating to Joy Junction (http://www.joyjunction.org/).
And of course, we love supporting BWorks and will make it a point to do that as well!
"Bright is more than a company, it's a lifestyle, that is bringing back the American Dream to people a little at a time. That's why I created 'Bright, because ownership is something that everyone should be able to experience'!-gregg mcphedrain"
Purchase 10 dollars of 'BRIGHT' clothing or merchandise - receive one share of company stock.
jbnksgrg is right, Its about the food drive and the groups that it supports.
We can still have fun. Hope you can join us at this years event as we once again mop up on other cities and keep the record in STL for most food collected. All for Food Outreach.
http://www.bworks.org/bikeworks/2012/09/15/st-louis-cranksgiving-fun-foo...
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