I'm totally ripping you off - great Story on SpeakUp

Alexander “Fish” Bohn describes how wanted to have my own intellectual property demonstration, to see how the concept might operate in the field of graphic design. I assembled an exhibition of posters at a student gallery here at RISD. The show, called "I AM TOTALLY RIPPING YOU OFF", consisted completely of from-scratch recreations of notable typographically-oriented examples from graphic design and conceptual art. In each recreated work, I used the words "I AM TOTALLY RIPPING YOU OFF, _______" with the blank substituted by the author or artists' name. I ripped off a very wide range of practitioners in this fashion, from Wim Crouwel, to John Baldessari, to M/M Paris.