Now Panic and Freak Out and other variations

Now, everyone knows about the alternate slogan “Now Panic and Freak Out”, but I don’t think I’ve ever put an image of it up here, this one is taken from Threadless.

I have always loved finding subverted images of the posters that I studied:

• The further that you go into Google Images, the more variations that you find!
• Flickr has a number of “Design Variations“
• “Keep Calm and Have a Cupcake” was also featured in the New York Times
• “Keep Calm and Spray On” perfume!
• Keep Calm and Carry On (with mice)
• Keep Calm and McLaren On
• Keep Calm and Customise
• Deviant Art
• Detroit Variation
• 12 months of ideas on a calendar
• DoobyBrain: Change Words and Be Hilarious
• Make your own!

Other Entries

• What Quebec Wants
• Dr Bex Lewis in the New York Times (now this is the closest I’ve come to seeing the print item – so far!)
• A blog entry by Crossed Wires.
• Whirled Peas: KCCO
• Choose a Shoe (but it’s not an RAF poster, it’s the Ministry of Information!)
• Cian Ó Laoghaire
• Leave Duff and Carry On (The Simpsons-esque)
• Slogan for a Parenting Blog!
• So many variations in colour too. I have the red one from Barter Books, but I have to say I love purple nearly as much, it’s tempting!

Who likes it/mentions it (according to Google Alerts!)?
I’m just fascinated to see how it’s been repurposed!

• Lose That Girl
• Leah from London
• Breizh from Morgantown, USA
• See in Technicolour
• Daisy-Chain
• PlusNet Community
• Meet the Hazards
• Music, Track No 6 on their MySpace (not sure it’s my taste, but interesting none-the-less)
• Interior Designer (anti-the-“fad”)
• Should the Swedes take on the phrase?
• Splendicity
• Give Away Today
• Silvio Berlusconi?
• Parasol Party
• Rob Cherry, seen in a Beach Hut
• What(Ever) [highlighted some rude ones, just to warn you!]
• Pedlars
• Lexie (mind the music!)
• BCreativeNot Crazy
• Jamie
• Helen Morgan

I have, like, over 100 Google Alerts come in – stopped at around 40ish, have other work to do today, but there’s so much information on this – SO interesting!