It’s not unusual for big companies to be accused of stealing from the little guys. (Remember that whole Urban Outfitters drama earlier this year?) And we’re the first to admit that sometimes really good ideas happen to come to different people at the same time. But it’s hard to imagine that the most recent case — involving artist Ophelia Chong, who was informed last Friday by a student that Starbucks’ packaging design looked quite a lot like something Chong herself had created — is somehow the coincidence of creative minds thinking alike. As Hyperallergic puts it, “Ophelia Chong’s work looks a hell of a lot like that Starbucks illustration.
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