The tee-shirt on the left emanantes from a website in the US which specialises in adorning its apparel with amusing takes on various corporate logos. Some of them are quite clever - I like this one poking a bit of fun at Twitter - and some are so-so. See Teevault here.
Here's another example (right) - this time from a website in the UK called Zazzle. It uses elements of You Tube's logo to say something else. It is hard to imagine Twitter or You Tube getting to hot and bothered about either. Not so Dublin Bus. Artist Niall de Buitlear recently used the semi-state's logo (a semi-state we all subsidise through our taxes) on a parody tee shirt he hoped to sell on a website of his own called Tshock.
Niall simply inverted and slightly tweaked the logo to give it the appearance of a skull / Lucha Libre Mask. For his trouble he was contacted by lawyers from Dublin Bus, who demanded he remove the images from his website and stop selling the tee shirts.
We won't invert the Dublin Bus logo here, for fear of bringing the wrath of the company's legal eagles down on us, but you can stand on your head while viewing the screen or simply print it and turn it upside down to see its Totenkopf similarities:
Things have come to a sad pass when a young artist cannot supplement his income by flogging a few tee-shirts, designed on the same lines as those created by silk-screeners elsewhere, without being threatened by one of our semi-state monoliths.
Another example of the "freedom" the boys and girls of the 1916 putsch died for, I suppose.
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