I just saw this Honda commercial on TV.  It looks way too much like Justin BUA’s Art work, BUT I just checked his facebook and he says he didn’t do it.  What do you guys think…did they totally jack his style or am I wrong? Check out the video and the pics I attached and if you want more pics check out his facebook as well.

-Wild Artist Michael Cook

Honda Commercial

My comics character I created over 15 years ago,

ZOMBRE was not only stolen graphically but also in name!

I guess I should be flattered.

Great band name but their music seriously sucks.

Here’s an image from a sticker I made:

and here’s an image of their shodily painted bass drum with ripped image from Myspace.

Originally their myspace site just had the Zombre image.

I  asked them to remove it.

They didn’t so Myspace did it for me.

I’m amazed they stole the name and graphics!

Why do people steal things?

This was painful for me to see and hear.

Zombre’s latest issue is

available thru hobocomics.com

and now has a Facebook page.

Topshop strikes again!!! I run a small label called LolaPop, all my jewellry is designed and handmade by me. I was going to let this go quietly but since seeing what has happened to LadyLuckRulesOK and Made By White, i thought what the hell. If these massive companies are gonna have the cheek to rip of independent designers then they should be named and shamed. We need to stick up for ourselves and whilst i’m sure it won’t make a difference to the way they “design” at least the more people are aware of it the better.

The copy is an awful embarrassing lame ass version of my original. After the earrings being for sale on my shop for over a year I got a press opportunity to be in NME magazine, i sent them a photo of my hello sailor earrings then three months later, there they are on the TopShop website! In NME they even wrote that i’m a small independent designer who hand makes every piece so they were very aware that they were screwing over a little guy. How low is that! I mean isn’t the creative bit of the job the fun part of being in the design industry, by stealing other peoples ideas are you not just making your job incredibly dull!

I was browsing some art the other day and came across an artist whose work looked a little too familiar… A little digging revealed that she has basically been ripping off other fine artists for years.  When I emailed her about this, she sent me a very rude reply and then promptly changed her website to “credit” just three of the artists from whom she’s plagiarized. She’s still trying to sell the work for money. She’s also getting a graduate degree… in painting!

Her work appears on the right in each of these pairings. The other artists from top to bottom are: Ashley Ording, Youngna Park, Christine Collins, Malerie Marder, Futoshi Miyagi (bottom 2). I’d be so mad if I was one of these artists! None of the paintings were previously credited, so I don’t think any of the original artists know they’ve been ripped off (I  emailed a gallery that represents one of the above artists, and they were thankful for the heads-up). It’s hardly fair of her to credit only a few artists when she’s called out, and only years after making the work. As we know, it’s one thing to be inspired by other artists. This, however, is straight up copying!

Her website is here: http://www.kimiaferdowsi.com

UPDATE! Two more copies brought to my attention; she credits one as being in NYLON magazine, but fails to mention the artist, Justin Hollar.

They say imitation is the highest form of flattery.  We see our designs copied on a regular basis, usually it’s our firm website being copied by some fly-by-night operation overseas, but occasionally one of the original designs we’ve created for a client site gets stolen by a competitor who doesn’t think we’d ever notice….

The original — Arecont Vision — http://www.arecontvision.com/

The sad imitation — Anyvision — http://www.anyvision.net/

Clothing store Susan (as in “this goes with that”) has wheeled the old “as long as we change 30%” chestnut.

Their new range of sleepwear was spotted in their stores by a “concerned citizen”…armed with a camera phone and a change room, she has provided evidence…also has reportedly secured examples via a promo voucher.  It is also she that had direct contact with susan and was given the said “as long as we change 30%” line.  So they are not denying the rip

The ripped designs prominently feature the rats, in a non to sublte rip, obviously using Banksy’s as a source image and fiddling with it a bit.

The items do not appear on their online catalog for some reason??? 

I am sure you have seen them enough to recognise them.

I’ll never understand how a bunch of people who talks about themselves like the new design gurus can steal other people’s work.

Could they sleep at night?

The original: http://madinspain.com/

The not-so-original: http://traxexlive.com/

But this isn’t the only thing they stole, look at this logo from Traxex:

And take a look at the original at http://www.waskman.com/

This morning I received an e-mail from one of our customers who was looking through the ‘New In’ section of the ASOS website when a Russian Doll ring caught her attention which looked VERY similar to our design. My heart sunk as I clicked on the link to discover it really is a blatant horrendous cheap rip off of our original artwork! The design and even the wording are copied, we have been selling “I’m Cute” Russian Doll necklaces on the Hannah Zakari website since September 2008. We originally designed the Russian Doll jewellery in August 2008 for a Viktor & Rolf “Dolls Night Out” party held at the Barbican. We took inspiration from trips to a Russian Tearooms in Primrose Hill and a houseboat community in Victoria Park. We then spent a long time lovingly drawing our own Russian Doll design. I feel so angry about this! Surely a *huge* company like ASOS have a large in-house design team earning big bucks to create their own brand products – why copy designs by small independent designers? It’s so, so lazy. ASOS you suck! You’ve left us with no option but to name and shame you but do you actually care?