Original (shortlisted at Cannes Lions Advertising Festival back in 2001)
Client: Bianco Footwear “Sale”
Agency: …& Co
Country: Denmark
Year: 2001
Source of above visual: Sold Out / Très très “sale” en effet!
Not So Original
Client: The Foot Shoe Store
Country: Indonesia
Not so original
Client: Essere
Agency: Talent
Designer: Seif El Degwi
Country: Kuwait – 2010.
Special thanks for Kris for sharing this with us. here is what he wrote;
Let’s just call this UN-TALENTED STOLEN IDEA!!!!!!!!!
Did TALENT take money from ESSERE ZAHRA COMPLEX KUWAIT SHOP
for this STOLEN IDEA??? … I guess they should at least send 99.9 procent of it to the guy from Indonesia
It’s NOT FAIR MAN!!!!!!! Really!!!!!




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Both are copycats! The original one is a Cannes 2001 Shortlist for Bianco Footwear :
http://www.joelapompe.net/2010/10/19/sale-shoes-bianco-essere/
Special thanks to Joelepompe for shedding more light on this creative crime. Please visit his site for this and more crimes committed in the name of “creativity” http://www.joelapompe.net/2010/10/19/sale-shoes-bianco-essere/