Kidrobot Vs. Taco Bell
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- d_rek0
jeez...
That's pretty blatant.
- sikma0
"It should be said that the kidrobot promo picture is a fake to show the similarities between the two products."
- ukit0
This is the company that did it
I wonder how they approach a proposal like this - do they tell Taco Bell their idea is to blatantly rip off someone else's design? Or just go ahead and do it?
- fresnobob0
I don't really think they 'ripped off' anything other than the idea of a vinyl toy... which Kidrobot definitely did not come up with either. Someone took something from a sub-culture and put a Taco Bell spin on it. Cool, thats pretty much what design is, compiling ideas and changing them to suit your purpose. Dudes are just pissed because they realized that collecting of vinyl toys doesn't really make them special.
- well put. Advertising constantly pulls ideas from pop and sub-cultures. Banksy has some interesing quotes regarding this.baseline_shift
- "Advertising constantly steals ideas from pop and sub-cultures." - fixed it for you.monNom
- mikotondria30
they're just 2inch tall plastic characters, I wouldnt even say they were of a similar genre of such things, I really don't see what the fuss is all about.
- dbloc0
This was obviously done on purpose or they wouldn't have completely copied the ad and character styles.
- ukit0
fresnobob, I get what you are saying but it's pretty much a blatant copy in this case.
I am not all that into Kidrobot or all that stuff but anyone with a passing knowledge of it can see they meticulously copied everything, from the logo to the way the packaging is designed.
- ukit0
Let's put it this way, if you start a restaurant with the exact same colors, store layout and menu as Taco Bell, would Taco Bell just sit back and say, "that's pretty much what design is?" Hell no, they would slap you with a lawsuit.
- max_prophet0
To be fair kid robot ripped the idea from Kubrick / medicom anyhow, who cares? There's a myriad of these companies now, and like everything 'young' and 'cool', it's only a matter of time before some bright marketing spark deems it ready for use on their campaign bus.