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A Day in the Life of an American Post-Graffiti Abstract Expressionist

Your alarm clock rings.

It’s morning and you’re about to start your day as an American Post-Graffiti Abstract Expressionist.

Armed with a collection of spray cans, poster paints, a balaclava and a step ladder, you set out to challenge the way people see the world.

And no one’s going to stop you. No, Sir.

Here’s some of the mischief that American Post-Graffiti Abstract Expressionist Rene Gagnon has been up to recently.

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Anyone spot where Rene went wrong?

Anyone?

Anyone?

That’s right, children: Rene forgot to check his American Post-Graffiti Abstract Expressionist work for typos. I know, I know, we’ve all made typos and the idea’s still good, but… but… well I’m not the one that’s trying to be an American Post-Graffiti Abstract Expressionist. If you can spell that correctly, then surely you can work out how to use apostrophes?

(Rene – if for some unknown reason you ever happen to read this drivel – I am sorry. It’s just that after working with designers for five years you start to get a little grouchy about people’s lack of respect for the English language.)

I’ve also just discovered that Rene Gagnon shares his name with one of the U.S. Marines immortalised in by Joe Rosenthal’s famous WWII photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.

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3 Responses to A Day in the Life of an American Post-Graffiti Abstract Expressionist

  1. Too right pieman. Designer’s, Art Director’s, Account handler’s. I’m sick of em’ all.

    on December 3, 2009 by andy
  2. And planners’s.

    on December 3, 2009 by John in a Basket
  3. Run, Rene, run. Lynne Truss is on her way.

    on December 8, 2009 by kedar

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