Polemics with the winning poster Fault: could be accused of plagiarism

On Tuesday night, the qualifying jury of the XXI Fallas Poster Contest chose from among more than 30 works "Menina Fallera", Nieves Aranda and Fernando Moncho.

Shortly after publishing on our website photo of the winning poster, several comments were recorded for the resemblance to the poster that was released in Valencia 2010 work of Rafael Vilches.

"It reminds me of the 2012 Fallas card", Told Lucas on Facebook.
"I think the poster is very nice ... but isn't it almost, almost, almost, are we going practically the same as in Valencia in 2010?", Published Cristina on our website.

"It is practically the same one that won in Valencia in 2010. I agree that" inspiration "is part of creation. But from" inspiration "to" plagiarism "there is a fine line"He opined Sus.

But not only our users saw the semblance between the two posters: the president of the Local Board, Jaume Bertomeu, alerted the department of culture and even the author of the Valencian cartel contacted the town hall.

The mayor of culture, Pepa Font, has decided that it is the legal services who decide if the cartel could incur a crime of plagiarism, but until they know their verdict, they will maintain the work of Aranda and Moncho, who left this writing yesterday afternoon on our website:

"We are two graphic designers who live and work in the world of design. As professionals we have participated in numerous competitions, in fact on many occasions we have been able to see how some participants are tempted to plagiarize the work of other authors.
But one thing is partial or casual coincidence of a chromatic scale or motif and another a simple exercise of plagiarism. Claim that the headlining a poster is copied because it is a faller of absurdity. We do not even deserve an answer, if it were not for the stupefaction that has left us. Clearly, we have our tastes and admire many designers and artists in general, like any professional, but these criticisms are ill-intentioned, painful and unjust. We have spent a long time preparing forward to this contest, Sketching, documentándonos, looking textures,
shapes, colors, etc. It is very sad that we now hear these comments, anonymous, that tarnish much work.

For our part we have nothing more to say, if we encourage you to reflect a little more before giving your opinion. "

The jury reconvened yesterday afternoon to select a work reserve in case of being forced to remove the selected in the first instance.