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AP Spreads Own Story, Urging Shepard Fairey to Settle Copyright Case

  • by Hrag Vartanian on May 28, 2010

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by Hrag Vartanian on May 28, 2010

The Associated Press has disseminated a story that props up its own interests in the Shepard Fairey Obama “Hope” copyright case. Some people are wondering if the news service should’ve filed a story with no real updates except that things are still going well for the AP.

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Graphic Design Insanity Over Nuclear Summit Logo

  • by Hrag Vartanian on April 15, 2010

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by Hrag Vartanian on April 15, 2010

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In what can only be described as a case of visual illiteracy, Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times is dissecting the claim by some people on the wacky right that the logo of the recent Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC, is coded with Islamic imagery. No, you didn’t read that wrong.

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Best of the Aughts: The 11 Best Headlines for a Delusional Decade

  • by The Editors on January 25, 2010

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by The Editors on January 25, 2010

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We were recently deleting our hard drives from the aughts in an effort to upload everything into the cloud and we found these gems among the files. We almost forgot these things happened … oh wait, did they? Who remembers.

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