Come for the design, stay for the wank
Graphic designer Michael Bierut posts an article in a design blog musing about a young designer who has produced a piece in the style of Barbara Kruger without knowing who Barbara Kruger is.

Someone claiming to be a young graphic design student named 'Jessica Simpleton,' who is either one of the most clueless people I've run across today or is a brilliant troll, shows up to complain about the impossibility of remembering every graphic designer ever, accuse all designers over 45 of being hopelessly stale and stodgy, and talk smack about the design of the website which I tend to agree with, but that's beside the point.

Restrained, for the most part, wank ensues, along with interesting discussion on the appropriation and ownership of design.

Jessica SimpletonOMG. What is WronG with you people! If you want to go down in history as noteworthy "artizans", then you should have stuck to fine art. Exccuussse me for having eclectic taste by the way. I spent the better part of this afternoon searching through my "textbook" and yes, it's the only one I have so far since I am, after all, a beginning student, for the artists that impress me the most and purely on a gut level, instinctive level. And yes, I admit the persona is somewhat fucked up but it's also me in many ways. I just like to tell it like it is.