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ZookPilot26
12/17/2010 3:20pm
12/17/2010 3:20pm
Edited Date/Time
1/27/2012 8:47am
As in: Ripoff & Duplicate.
Buddy of mine at One Ind is a Designer and sent an image over of the design they did for Chad Reed at the Australian SX a couple of months ago. I got a chuckle when I logged on today and saw Factory FX's groundbreaking design on the Vital homepage.
'Two Two' background design is used exactly the same on the shrouds and the airbox. With the exception of the sponsors, the design and colorways are basically identical. How hard is it to lay some red/black in over a background that somebody already designed for you?
Buddy of mine at One Ind is a Designer and sent an image over of the design they did for Chad Reed at the Australian SX a couple of months ago. I got a chuckle when I logged on today and saw Factory FX's groundbreaking design on the Vital homepage.
'Two Two' background design is used exactly the same on the shrouds and the airbox. With the exception of the sponsors, the design and colorways are basically identical. How hard is it to lay some red/black in over a background that somebody already designed for you?
They obviously aren't exact copies. There are some obvious 'coincidences', though, and it certainly suggests a lack of creativity on FX's part.
The Shop
Zookpilot, nice 2nd post! Your buddy at One Industries ask you to come on here and poke at the competition?
There's no chance that Chad pretty much designed the graphics himself, so similarities exist because that's the way he wanted the kits designed?
Chad spent a full 8 hour day here at the FX offices laying out the bike with our art team. He had a specific theme in mind, we made it look as he wanted it. He wanted the white based bike, he wanted his logo "ghosted" into the background, and that's what he got. We did over 50 different renditions of his bike , this is the one he liked best.
The original TwoTwo logo and pattern were designed and created by FluidPR - an Australian sports media and management company that works very closely with WMG and is owned by one of Chad's close buddies - Matt Cousins. They are the company that have the relationship with Vodafone, Honda Aust and others and supplied all the logos, Vodafone race car pictures and more to One Industries to replicate into a form that would work on the bike. FluidPR also did the new TwoTwo Motorsports logo.........not One Industries.
OC Scottie, Grieby54, ck95 and Red Alert are all correct - it was Chad that directed what he wanted in both designs and actually spent 8hrs in front of a screen at FactoryEffex with a designer to ensure that not only the bike, but truck, tent etc all looked the way HE wanted and reflected the image that he wanted. Got to respect that level of involvement and attention to detail!
So Zook best you and ur imaginary buddy take your R&D, and your tails, and stuff them
between your legs and run along now............like a good little employee...........say hi to Neil!
Pit Row
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