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macintologist · Feb 15, 2005, 05:02 PM

I was at the ABC (pronounced in the French way) Outdoor Shopping mall in Beirut, Lebanon last week and they had a big poster up advertising the shopping center.

Isn't that a direct knock off of the silhouette iPod ads?

(Side note, just 10 days ago I was just one block from where that bomb went off in Beirut)

PurpleGiant · Feb 15, 2005, 05:08 PM

It is. But I doubt Apple has a trademark on silhouettes with a coloured background.

Stradlater · Feb 15, 2005, 05:23 PM

Apple wasn't the first person to do a silhouette over a color background, they just made their mark when it was in an animated commercial (which transitioned over to print/street ads).

I don't think this is really a "RIPOFF"...even if you do see similarities.

Kenneth · Feb 15, 2005, 05:26 PM

I saw that kind of rip-off on oxygen channel years ago.

kmkkid · Feb 15, 2005, 05:29 PM

Wow.

My Public School must have been ripping off Apple when each of us did our silhouettes for Graduation like 15 years ago.

Chris

TETENAL · Feb 15, 2005, 05:33 PM

How do you pronounce ABC the french way?

Here's another ripp-off:

Person Man · Feb 15, 2005, 05:52 PM

Originally posted by TETENAL:
How do you pronounce ABC the french way?

Here's another ripp-off:

Rip off of the iTunes ads or the Eurovision Song Contest? Or Both?

- - e r i k - - · Feb 15, 2005, 05:59 PM

Oh please. Dancing silhouettes have been around forever. They were all the rage in the early nineties dancevideos (my favorite one was a "demo" for Amiga from Spaceballs that were ripped off and intercut with a dance video for MTV). And have you never seen a bond movie?

The thing Apple added was the contrasting white (a second silhouette) of the iPod.

Apple Pro Underwear · Feb 15, 2005, 08:33 PM

that silhouete has been around since louis trelec (i totally f*cked that up).

but he is the 18th century french poster designer. i mean, if you "borrow"... try to make it your own.

walter bradley did stuff sort of like that but art deco too. apple did it with bright colors but this has been around since forevera

i_rooster · Feb 15, 2005, 10:00 PM

damn!

i_rooster · Feb 15, 2005, 10:13 PM

Now THIS is worse!!

CD Hanks · Feb 15, 2005, 10:15 PM

Who cares? If anything you all should be flattered that Apple/Chiat Day/TBWA have created such a successful marketing campaign that others are following suit.

Rev-O · Feb 15, 2005, 11:17 PM

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
that silhouete has been around since louis trelec (i totally f*cked that up).

but he is the 18th century french poster designer. i mean, if you "borrow"... try to make it your own.

walter bradley did stuff sort of like that but art deco too. apple did it with bright colors but this has been around since forevera

Also, a french artist named Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec did posters, too.

iREZ · Feb 15, 2005, 11:34 PM

Other than the bombing, how has the trip gone. I'm Armenian and so is my mom but she was born and raised in Lebanon and she's always trying to get me to go that way for a vacation. I'm sure I'll end up there one day, but I'm curious how life is there now a days compared to what my mom remembers.

DeathMan · Feb 16, 2005, 01:07 AM

that particular shade of green (I understand apple doesn't have a TM on that color) with the black silouette, and the white along with it is pretty much ripping it off.

It comes down to this. If you were a ways off, would you think it was an ipod ad? I would think so.

If the ipod ad were my brainchild, and I saw this, I would feel someone had stolen my idea, not been inspired by me.

Cubeoid · Feb 16, 2005, 03:17 AM

Flowers are neat.

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What! An ourage that is! Well I oughta! They should rename that place to "The iPod Ripoff Mall" Man.. Steve and Bono should go totally upisde those foolz heads yo!! Daaaiimm fool!

JHromadka · Feb 16, 2005, 11:27 AM

Originally posted by kmkkid:
Wow.

My Public School must have been ripping off Apple when each of us did our silhouettes for Graduation like 15 years ago.

Chris

My first grade class ripped off Apple when we did this with construction paper 20+ yrs ago.

turtle777 · Feb 16, 2005, 11:40 AM

Originally posted by macintologist:
the ABC (pronounced in the French way) Outdoor Shopping mall in Beirut, Lebanon

Gee. Thanks.

I almost got it confused with the English ABC Outdoor Shopping mall and the German ABC Outdoor Shopping mall.

-t

JHromadka · Feb 16, 2005, 04:16 PM

"Ahhh-bay-say" perhaps?

sugar_coated · Feb 16, 2005, 09:39 PM

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Wiskedjak · Feb 16, 2005, 09:53 PM

oh man! There are rip-offs everywhere!
http://images.google.com/images?q=si...art=0&sa=N