Comments on: Public service ad put out by Transport for London. http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/04/public-service.html swissmiss is a design blog and studio run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, a 'swiss designer gone NYC'. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ben http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/04/public-service.html#comment-6504 Ben Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:24:30 +0000 http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/04/public-service.html#comment-6504 <p>This is actually ripped off from a psychology paper that was published in 1999 by a Dan Simons (<a href="http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/)" rel="nofollow">http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/)</a> using a man in a gorilla suit. Its been on TV many times since then and I think that Dan copyrighted this idea so the advertisers could end up in a spot of bother here... I have heard that the BBC have been sued by him at least twice for ripping off this idea without permission in documentaries. Its a great piece of work by the way!</p> <p>To be a bit of an anorak about this, the original idea was not Dan's but was an experiment run in the 1960s using a woman with an umbrella rather than a gorilla...</p> This is actually ripped off from a psychology paper that was published in 1999 by a Dan Simons (http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/) using a man in a gorilla suit. Its been on TV many times since then and I think that Dan copyrighted this idea so the advertisers could end up in a spot of bother here… I have heard that the BBC have been sued by him at least twice for ripping off this idea without permission in documentaries. Its a great piece of work by the way!

To be a bit of an anorak about this, the original idea was not Dan’s but was an experiment run in the 1960s using a woman with an umbrella rather than a gorilla…

]]> By: chris http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/04/public-service.html#comment-6503 chris Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:15:02 +0000 http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/04/public-service.html#comment-6503 <p>there's been a lot of controversy over this ad.<br /> it was ripped off a group of university students who uploaded their film on youtube.<br /> advertising falls victim of not hiding its sources well enough. again.</p> there’s been a lot of controversy over this ad.
it was ripped off a group of university students who uploaded their film on youtube.
advertising falls victim of not hiding its sources well enough. again.

]]> By: james http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/04/public-service.html#comment-6502 james Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:54:00 +0000 http://www.swiss-miss.com/2008/04/public-service.html#comment-6502 <p>I'd seen this on a few blogs but never watched it. </p> <p>Very clever, and proof I suppose that wearing a hi-viz jacket on the bike is better than a bear costume.</p> <p>Thanks for sharing.</p> I’d seen this on a few blogs but never watched it.

Very clever, and proof I suppose that wearing a hi-viz jacket on the bike is better than a bear costume.

Thanks for sharing.

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