When Indeed and Guaranteed Rate didn’t secure exclusive rights for a stock video clip in their Super Bowl commercials, Popeyes trolled them with a commercial that also used the clip.
WRONG CHOICE
These design fails inspire a different kind of doom scrolling Listicals of pictures where drawers can’t open or toilets are positioned on stairs always get a click from me. This gathering of bad illustrations was a special kind of horror, wondering, Have I done something like this...? I recently went through old CDs and saw what I used to cobble together back when publications did not secure online rights for images used in print but we still needed art in the online version. So, I feel for these people—and I laugh at what went public. —MV
I like to create the stories for how the mom ends up decapitating her baby or someone decides it’s better to fade the fish into the people being massaged. It’s easy to imagine someone saying they need a boy at the computer and they need to see his face, but the power key surrounded by delete and backspace keys is kind of diabolical.
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Art Department Weekly • February 23, 2021
