With basic graphic design skills, it's not difficult to create package designs and promotional materials that closely ape the original. Artist Jeff Wysaski puts these skills to good use, creating both, slipping them into stores and documenting them on his Obvious Plant Tumblr.
Wysaski's results are always hilarious, and while some are just straight-up silly, like these Black Friday flyers slipped into a Target…
…some comment on a particular design's aesthetics, like this "in-store review" tucked into an Ikea…
…while others provide commentary about our "product landscape," as seen at an Apple Store.
Still others provide social commentary.
Sometimes it's not clear whether they are meant to be silly or if Wysaski is actually making trenchant social observations about gender roles, social constructs and women warding off unsolicited attention by cloaking themselves within the "protection" of an unseen but nearby male.
But our favorite ones are always the silly ones.
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