Ah here.
Jimmy writes:
Wonder if the owners of Oxmantown (bijou hipster café; exalters of the humble sandwich) in Dublin 7 might feel a slight pang of the familiar when they see the branding, and overall exterior look, of the newly opened Stanley’s, St. Andrew’s Street, Dublin 2? I think they might …You Decide!! Fight! etc.!
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I’ll be down there later to steal some hipster bikes.
Same colour, no biggie really
Puff Daddy was a disappointment to us all.
Nice!
well done + 100000
Ha ha!! V v good !
What a load of Farrow & Balls
Look at the windows. The branding is not far off identical! Combined with the colour, it’s a bit of rip, in fairness.
I get it!
A bit cheeky that. Does anyone know why Oxmantown doesn’t open on the weekends? I find that strange.
All the staff have to attend community service?
All the staff are busy running screen printing workshops in Block T.
Have you seen that area on a Saturday, its very quiet, I imagine they get most of their business from the courts,the market and local offices , none of which are around at the weekend
They used that design before it was popular. This is now a documented fact.
Classic.
Thread over. You won :)
Ha! I saw that on Saturday and did a double take, thought I could get my Oxmantown fix southside, alas no,it was just an homage :(
I didn’t think they were the type to copy…
*snarf*
I’m sure they’re both a copy of a Cafe in Shoreditch, which is in turn copiy of a cafe in Williamsburg, which is a copy of something someone saw on Pinterest.
Also it was a Pinterest page dedicated to the ouevre of Wes Anderson.
Fair enough, but at least take your influences from a different city.
Meta hipster bull$hit.
Exactly, they both just copied something you’d seen in Williamsburg or anyother hipster place in NYC or London.
Rats out!
Snitches get stitches.
Maybe the own both ?
Maybe the do!
Maybe the don’t!
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no, they dont. 100% sure
They do though, though.
Don’t they?
*dey
They do.
Considering Oxmantown tweeted about Stanley’s I think they are one and the same gang…
…bang?
Whatever happened to Hipster joints being different man…. for shame man, for shame!
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Is it just me, or are they incredibly dissimilar? The shopfront is a different style and colour, the windows are different types, the name’s font and colour are different and even the arching of the text is different.
Their overall style could possibly be called similar at a stretch, but that’s just because they’re both based on styles that have been around for hundreds of years.
What he said.. OP is a handy bit of free advertising for both though, but maybe that was the point? Hmmmm….
They are very similar, same style, virtually the same colour. If I were Oxmantown and planning to open more shops I’d be pretty miffed. Not only that, how effin’ lazy do you have to be to just do the same thing, but crappily? And is it called Stanley’s Stanley’s? The style works for one window, not two, which further illustrates the fact that the didn’t look at what they had and just mugged someone else.
Nope… I’m with Bobby on this one!
…if they open a new branch they could call it ‘Ubiquity’.
Well, they can now.
Thank you for summing up my thoughts on this toss..
+1
That style is so textbook at this stage. There’s nothing new or original at this stage.
Grey background? Check.
Tall, gold, condensed, sans serif? Check.
etc… etc.
typical, the lads at oxmantown take great pride in the quality of their food and drink as well as establishing somewhere nice and reasonably original looking…. then some tosser throws a quick version together on the southside
You see the bit where you called it ‘original looking’?
Yeah, that’s where you went wrong.
Indeed.
The old stand across the road has gold lettering on its windows though its smaller and not in a curve and in a different font.
Meat & Meet has gold lettering on its window though its bigger than the old stand and not in a curve and in a different font.
Eden bar and grill has gold lettering on its window though its the biggest and not in a curve and in a different font.
And closer than oxmantown, on the north side, to the front of arnotts, on Liffey st, there’s Joe’s cafe with gold lettering in a curve in a similar font on the big window.
Indeed.
There’s a place in Limerick with windows and a door at the front too.
What’s going on?!!>?
It even has the business’ name on the window.
*gasps*
And it’s been painted a colour!!
This is getting weird, people.
What have we stumbled on???!1!?
Your lace is open
How did the Hipster burn his hand?
He left it on the Stanley, before it was cool?
Is there any chance they’re the same organisation?
They are the same people running both of them. Stanley’s is a slightly different version.
Next thing people will be giving out about Sister Sadie being a copy of Brother Hubbard.
Are they any good?
Oxmantwn is pretty excellent imho. http://www.oxmantowndublin.com/
You’re talking rubbisht, Parky. They are not the same people, why would they do a crapper version of their own logo? That said, it has worked for Brother Hubbard. How EXPENSIVE is that place!?
It’s not a logo. I think you mean typeface, yeah?
Yeah, the logotype, it’s made up of a stretched ‘typeface’, you’ve clearly been to ‘Williamsburg’.
They 100% do not own both.
There is no relationship between the two.
100% not the same people.
Oxmantown, Oxmantown, Everybody knows what’s goin’ down.
Good one !!
Really? Arched text on a window is a new unique thing?
Indeed, arched gold text in a long typeface on a window with a plain grey shopfront is (was) pretty unique in Dublin.
To be fair, Stanley’s seem to be doing it nicer, with the older facade.
STOP TRYING TO MAKE DUBLIN LIKE SHOREDITCH. Please.
to be fair it is just the logo that is the similar font
Sure didn’t dat lad on Twitter say everything is a remix and what have you.
are broadsheet paid to run tosh like this?