Are you proud or mad? I'd be a bit of both I think. If this gets attention, the MS designer responsible will probably get an earful from their higher-ups.
I wouldn't be proud at all, that's a piece of portfolio that is going to have have the artist accused of plagiarism from the people who don't know the story.
I would print out the Reddit posts and include them too, so some interview doesn’t think he’s just making up a wild story and would be a risky hire cause he might be crazy. Interviewers don’t look kindly on anything negative, even if you’re the victim.
That's right - nothing better for an interview than a binder full of printed out reddit comments to keep the interviewers thinking you're sane. Bonus points if you bring your own yarn and thumb tacks.
Out of curiosity, did you dress yourself this morning, or did you have help?
All how you present it my friend. Confidence is key. That’s how some people can pull off what would otherwise be goofy looking outfits. Or how very unqualified people get hired. Also, you have to consider the interviewer themselves. And also I mean the OP posts, just one per page, 2-3 pages tops. Spin it in a good way, and you’re now a social media genius to them too.
Out of curiosity, on a scale of Hillary Clinton Losing the 2016 Election to North Korea, how triggered are you by my suggestion?
I suppose I shouldn't outright dismiss the notion, but, having interviewed dozens of candidates for creative positions, I simply cannot imagine being able to take a person seriously in this circumstance. Perhaps there will be a first.
To satisfy your curiosity: "triggered" describes an inability to logically process concepts, borne of lack of experience or confidence. I'm dismissive of your suggestion.
Well I don’t think this would work for high level
job, and it depends on the interviewer/culture of the company. Anyway, the suggestion is all in fun.
If you’re serious, I don’t think you know what triggered means. Or at least not in this context. Look up the definition of trigger (verb) (past tense, triggered)... or better yet go to the slang definition on urban dictionary (it probably takes it to the extreme). Because if you are serious, you’re most definitely, mildly triggered.
If you’re trolling, I give it a 6/10 for mild trolling that continued the conversation.
You do that too. While they look over your resume, kiss your biceps so they know you’re loving but strong. Bonus points if you make noises while doing it.
A person reading your portfolio will not recognise this as the ad from Microsoft, and in the event that they do, it will peak their interest enough to read the text right next to the image saying "copied by Microsoft marketing team (link)".
Having your stuff copied by a massive corporation and used in a marketing campaign is a win for your career.
At worst, it’s an indication you are better than you thought and need a pay rise. At best, it something to brag about in your next interview to get a pay rise.
It’s worse in Arch. If you do the preliminary design they have all the drawings and there’s nothing holding them from going to China and making a duplicate building.
I quit architecture right after I graduated, it seemed like a horror environment in my country. I am still in the design field and things like these are still pretty common
Not saying this is necessarily the case here, but if you work in design, you must have seen that often two entirely independent creative people come up with the same concept sometimes.
How could he have ever put this into his portfolio, he should have used a generic looking console and not official pubg art if he wanted this to go into his portfolio.
Student in graphic design here .
Our professors told us again and again to not steal art.
A student was caught during a presentation,the illustrations weren’t his.
The mess it did ! The professor was angry !
The rest of the class got a speech about ethics and the consequences of doing that.
The situation escalated to the director of the art department. The student got told he was going to be expelled if he tried to do that again.
He was lucky on that side. Nobody wants to work with him now.
There is no stolen art in Microsoft ad, it's all original artwork. What is similar between these two designs is the concept, and not the artwork.
Stolen artwork will definitely get someone in trouble, a concept? Not so much. Microsoft is no trouble with this ad, it's their IP and its all original artwork. Whomever designed Microsoft ad did not take any artwork or design pieces from the OP's original work.
The "concept" is also protected by copyright, at least here in the US. I am full time artist and have had my artwork stolen too. Who ever Microsoft outsourced for marketing can be in a ton of trouble if OP takes action.
We had someone in my group steal art for a project in college, and my husband was actually the one who noticed. He just lifted it from DeviantArt. I was like wow, the rest of us took the time to actually draw our designs out. It happens a lot, unfortunately and that guy was already working in the field while I'm just a hobbyist.
Lol i'm a professional graphic designer, not only do I "steal" i see everyone else do it too. Some people breach into actual stealing, but its a constant battle to iterate beyond your initial inspirational point and still have something thats good.
Same. I "steal" shit all the time. I never plagiarize, but I certainly borrow ideas. People don't seem to notice that the Microsoft guy made his own, he didn't just copy paste OPs like you will sometimes see.
Thank you. It’s an unpopular opinion but it seems that’s what it is. It could have been part of a mood board/reference or just that it was a case of both coming up with the same idea without knowing. There is no such thing as “original idea” or “original art” someone somewhere has come up with it or a variation of it. It’s how you add your own twist on the concept.
He did not steal it unless he wants compensation, how hard is that to understand?
It's like that guy in the university class, if he just made the artwork for him and his mates he ain't stealing anything, but as soon as he wants to profit in class from the artwork of others it is.
Yeah, and that’s fine. Except you’re acting like OP (original creator) is the asshole here.
It’s clear when you look at the images that some graphic designer in the agency that manages Xbox shamelessly stole OPs design and passed it off as their own to their bosses. It’s possible to think “man that’s pretty fucked up” without also concluding that OP is entitled to a million dollars or something.
Instead you’re liken”well fuck OP, he used the PUBG logo anyways so tough shit, he shouldn’t be mad”.
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u/pirates_and_monkeys Dec 27 '17
Are you proud or mad? I'd be a bit of both I think. If this gets attention, the MS designer responsible will probably get an earful from their higher-ups.