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Threadless Retail Arts Rock The House
Threadless issues three retail art panels each week, painted by Joe Suta, for the Threadless store in Chicago. They’re frequently amalgamations of that week’s designs or just single pieces and very cool takes on the designs of that week. Some of them are totally nutty and most aren’t my style, but I fell in love with the CTRL+Z inspired one and I’ve fallen in love with this week’s Le Romantique panel.
Joe really outdid himself with this panel. Just take a look:
Awesome, hm? Too bad it’s already sold out and that they’re one of a kind. Sigh.
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Johnny Shirtwearer said,
September 5, 2008 @ 6:12 pm
I’m not in favor of Threadless’ appropriation of artist imagery for re-use and sale in paintings. Does this “artist” have any talent? I don’t think so, otherwise he’d come up with something on his own, instead of stealing the collected works of Threadless submitters and piecing together these REALLY unattractive works. I get more and more disgusted with the mindset of the people at Threadless.
Chris Cardinal said,
September 6, 2008 @ 3:36 am
You know, that’s an interesting argument to make. Joe’s very talented and has *tons* of custom artwork around the Threadless offices.
I think that it makes a lot of sense; they use these panels to decorate their retail location, and what better way than with collages of their product (the rights to which they pay for, end of story; it’s theirs) put to paint?
Disclosure: I own a retail art panel.
While I understand your point of view, I really don’t think it’s any more fair to hate on Joe than it would be to hate on Warhol for painting Campbell’s soup cans.
Would you also not have them show a collage of the designs on the home page anywhere? Maybe we shouldn’t be able to see the designs before we purchase them at all. The point is, they pay for the art and the license includes this usage. It’s not an “appropriation”, as they are very forthcoming with that and an artist doesn’t have to agree to their terms at all.