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Is this a blatant rip-off or what?

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This is Comcast’s latest bad campaign. Forget the fact that invented words made of smushed together real words got played out a while ago. Forget that it didn’t work that well then either. What bothers me about this campaign is that its a bad rip off of an under-appreciated, super-fucking cool bit of design candy (see the photo below), by Knock Knock, a super cool design candy company.

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You’d think the fine folks in Comcast’s marketing department would have a big enough budget to hire a some smart designers who–I don’t know–might have the skillz to do something of their own. Or at least who might have the talent to cover up their plagiarism a little better.

10/27/07 by josh kamler

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4 Responses to “Is this a blatant rip-off or what?”

  1. Benjamin Says:
    October 29th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    Thanks Josh for saying this out loud. I’m a big fan of Knock Knock and have been thinking exactly what you wrote since I saw this campaign roll out on BART. BL

  2. josh kamler Says:
    October 29th, 2007 at 3:35 pm

    @ BL
    good to hear i’m not the only one hating on comcast. negativity being mostly not useful and all. i just couldn’t help myself.

  3. Tatyana Says:
    October 31st, 2007 at 9:48 am

    ah, yes. I am glad someone said it as well. But it’s consistent with the big box MO, right?

  4. Jeff Caldwell Says:
    November 5th, 2007 at 10:47 pm

    Oh Snap! That is Hella Wack! Those Player Haters are Illin’

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