Ben Schwartz – Unlicensed : Bootlegging as Creative Practice

Ben Schwartz – Unlicensed : Bootlegging as Creative PracticeBen Schwartz (1988) is a graphic designer and editor based in New York. He collaborates with several graphic design studios in the cultural sector across a variety of media. Over the last few decades the term bootlegginga practice once relegated to smugglers and copyright infringershas become understood as a creative act. Debates about homage, appropriation, and theft that are common in the art world, are now being held in the spheres of corporate