Dear Weber® Q® 140 Outdoor Electric Grill’s advertising agency,
Thank you so much for ripping off the logo created for The Tragically Unhip by totally awesome graphic designer Laura F. Cline in August 2008. Now that your billboards are all over Manhattan and your GIF ads are being e-blasted into the inboxes of all Flavorpill subscribers, you should have been raising our profile as the little blog that could, but instead we seem to have gone as an uncredited source of your design team’s inspiration. I hope that you’ve at least shared our URL around your impossibly sleek and modern SoHo digs so that the account managers and marketing team could read and benefit from our unhip humour. But should ever you require the services of a few brilliant, tongue-in-cheek writers, do inquire within.
Yours respectfully,
The Tragically Unhip
Tragically Unhip Staff
MP*erron
Kimberly Senf
Laurin McNiff
David Fiore
Poppa John
Tess Hart
Brooke D.
Elli S.
Meagan Burbidge
Mr. Flint
George Blottttt
Little Evie
Whaaaaa?
The worst part is, I think I have that barbecue.
Yeah, cuz nothing like that has EVER been done before:
http://www.treehugger.com/20081111-plastic-bag-skyline.jpg
Like the man says, hardly an astoundingly original design. Anyway, I hope they are paying you for advertising them?
Like you didn’t “rip off” your blog’s name from the totally awesome Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip (formed in 1983)?
Aside from the rip-off, why would anyone need an electric grill outside? Isn’t the fun of cooking outside is that we get to use fire?