(above: original) Glennz t-shirt vector design (below) Student Copycat

Andrés Giovanni Pineda Higuera seems to be too cheeky to think that glennz is not that famous, and claim the rights of a design piece for ACADEMIC PURPOUSES.

Jeanie M. is a fabulous artist in San Francisco, who has been doing original, wonderful works of art consisting of taxidermied mice en tableaux. She dresses them in tiny costumes, sets them up in anthropomorphic scenes.

Her website is here:  http://www.mouseangel.com/mice.htm

Enter the corporate pimps at Dreamworks and their whores, the Chiodo Brothers, who completely rip off Jeanie M’s. work with out so much as a tip of their hat. They just appropriated everything about her work. Did they even contact her? Probably not.

Not the first time the Chiodo Brothers ripped someone off for their work; they ruipped off the “Thunderbirds” TV show with their work on “Team America: World Police”.

Sad to see such intellectual theft. pathetic. I hope she sues Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks, and the Chiodo Brothers and wins big money.

An original Jeanie M. aka "Mouse Girl" work

Another original Jeanie M. aka "Mouse Girl" work

Chiodo Brothers RipOff

...more Chido Brothers RipOffs of Jeanie M.'s work

this was done a few weeks ago. every one at behance recommend me to publish it here.
here the link for the original post: link

Apparently some enterprising restauranteurs wanted to open a breakfast place in Isla Mujeres this year, but didn’t want to go through the hassle of actually having to work with a design company. Instead, they nicked Rooster’s name, logo, and signage. Pollo loco.

The original Rooster, located in St. Louis, MO can be seen on the left in the picture below, here in Flickr and at Roosterstl.com. The logo was designed (with ‘Rooster’ hand drawn) by my friend and coworker.

Rooster Cafe in Mexico Steals Identity Design from Existing Cafe in St. Louis, MO US.

Found this pic on a blog called 365 Concepts by Rupinder Singh.

Seems like a rip of this design by Glenn Jones from Glennz Tees

A quick google image search of “snake charmer” also turned up this picture by Major Drapkin & Co which Rupinder Singh used for his version.

Actual 1980s dress, from Dorothea’s Closet Vintage website

And the “design” by Tina O on her website, WannaWearByTinaO.com! Photo stolen from Dorothea’s Closet, item not purchased by said “designer” but purported to be her own design and being sold as such.

Here is some fairly shameless plagiarism from Australia. I only know about it because they contacted me saying they love my work and would like me to design them a new logo!

I designed this spread for SummerWinter Magazine, a mag that I am art director of in Australia, it was also up on the SummerWinter website for quite some time. They are a fashion label and they’ve used practically the same design for their logo

www.strummer.com.au

Sure, they’ve changed it from ‘Summer’ to ‘Strummer’ but it’s still basically the same design. I don’t even think it’s a good choice for a logo, I designed it to be almost illegible!

I’m not really that bothered, it’s not my best work and I did it about 4 years ago. I haven’t replied to them yet, what do you guys think I should say? I feel like I should send them an invoice for their first logo along with the quote for the re-brand.

Stolen – noico                                   Orginal – Mathiole in threadless

Noico aka ocion pl “gallery”:

http://ocionpl.daportfolio.com/gallery/331567#18

http://www.myspace.com/noicopl/photos/19816929

Orginal!

Use Your Brain by Matheus Lopes Castro in threadless

http://www.threadless.com/product/2060/Use_Your_Brain

I designed this qipao styled dress for Fan+Friend online shop’s design contest 2009. The idea of the contest is to design a lolita/aristocrat styled outfit and the winning outfit will be made as an actual piece to be sold at the F+F online store. I happened to win with this design:

The original design by Charlotta Tiuri (noke89):

This is the dress Fan+Friend made and it is now sold at their online store.

The original piece by Fan+Friend:

About one year later somebody noticed me in Deviantart, that they have seen something, that seems to be a rip off of my design. I got a link to chicstar.com and I found this:

The Rip Off by Daniela Valentini and chicstar:

Daniela Valentini had won a contest with this design in chicstar and the chicstar have now made the dress and they are also selling it on their site. I reported this in their site, but they refused to remove it.

The similarities:

I think anyone can tell the similarities between the designs and I think this “designer” have seen the dress that is sold on F+F site and ripped off the idea from it. The color options are exactly the same, the idea of the print is exactly the same (for me it doesn’t matter if it’s birds & flowers or just flowers) and the basic shape and the ruffles in the bottom are exactly the same.

The differences:

Fan+Friend did some changes to my original design as well. The ruffles on the back side, the corset lacing in the back and they also changed the print a little bit. Still it is my design. Daniela Valentini also did minimal changes, she added the buttons on the front and there are no ruffles on the back (just like in my original design) while in F+F version there are. I don’t think these little details really matter, the overview is just the same.

What is the design originally about:

The “designer” seemed to know nothing about the inspiration of this dress since she named the piece  ”Japan Inspired Lolita Dress” . As the original designer of this dress I know it is China inspired dress that’s got influence form the traditional Chinese dress qipao. The style is naturally lolita style, since the original design contest was a about lolita fashion. And lolita style comes from Japan so every lolita dress is basically  Japan inspired. The style of this dress in fact is qi-lolita (qipao+lolita). If you don’t know this much about these styles and you haven’t seen the F+F dress that I designed, then it is quite a coincidence that you have been able to pull out exact the same style of design.

Ok, I wish I had something as tangible as a blatantly copied art piece…

But after being in business for 3.5 years, my company is my baby, my art. And i chose a name that no one would ever likely replicate, both because of the obscurity and spelling.

This is me, Sugadeaux. In business in Australia since 2007 – see that copyright at the bottom of the screen?

And here’s a  business in Indiana who were brought to my attention today. See? Around since 2010? Ignore the fact they used “bakery” in the title, they clearly only have cupcakes. PLus they used one of those webs.com addresses so the fact that i own the sugadeaux domain is redundant. *sigh*

If you think there is a chance in hell that this person didnt google the name before the settled on it, you’re wrong. Its irrelevant that the two businesses are physically located in two different countries – both are internet based, and both reply on being showcased on international blogs and sites to make a name for themselves, particularly for SEO.