Rampant Hackery
Just when I thought I was over the whole Ringo Starr/The Professional fiasco this pops up on the radar! Obviously, if your a movie poster designer and you need a quick idea, any canceled television series ad is fair game so you can meet a deadline. This is just outright swipe material. Maybe at the very least an overactive subconscious. Oh, no…wait! The two are completely different!
A hack designers thought process: “Replace the beach with a NY skyline. Check. Reverse the ghost/person arrangement. Check. Change the color scheme and font selection slightly. Check. Now no one will ever know I am a hack! Sweet! Now I can make a run to Starbucks and kill 3 or 4 hours at the bookstore! I love my job.”
You’re kidding…right?!? We are supposed to be blind to this kind of rampant hackery? Breaking news…the general public is not that naive. You are fired, Mr. Hack Designer. You can forward all current jobs and emails to me and clear out your desk. Don’t even bother coming in next week. We’ll mail your last check to your apartment. Good luck with keeping the tank full on your leased hybrid. Hope you can use public transportation to your next job. And let the Senior Art Director know on your way out that he can clean out his desk too for not catching this. I’ll be doing both jobs from here on out.
