thievery

i've never read this mentioned anywhere so i thought i might drop it
on rhizome.

sometimes in my day-to-day working at my $gig$ (as opposed to my art
work) i need to churn out graphics using either logos or images of
third parties and i don't actually receive official vector art or
photoshop files from these third parties.

i know other designers must face the same problems. (it can be a
totally legit reason, like you might be creating graphics for a pitch
to a client and you can't ask the client for logos or images to use
in the pitch.)

a great source for high-quality images are unprotected flash files.
if you're lucky you can find a flash section of the co's site whose
images you want (if you would like to misuse bugs bunny, check out
time warner's site). then if you're luckier you can import these
images into flash, from there save them as adobe illustrator files
and from there they can go anywhere you would like them to go in a
fully editable resolution-independent vector format.

using IE on Mac OS 10.2 load the a flash section of a site, then look in:

~/Library/Preferences/Explorer/Temporary Files

(~ = yer user folder)

lo and behold there are .swf files in there. copy the files you
suspect may contain the images you are seeking to another directory
attempt to import them into flash (IE deletes these images as you
surf unless you move them). if they're protected from import you'll
get an error, otherwise you'll get vectors which you can use any way
you want…

i used to do this on Mac OS 9 too. look in the Preferences folder in
the System Folder if you're using that system. i don't know where to
find 'em using Windows.

have fun :-)
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