This post is being made on behalf of Julia Pott.

An Illustration/Animation graduate from Kingston University 2007, she had great success with her film ‘My First Crush’ and has since gone on to develop a range of characters and designs with her unmistakable style.

However, just this week a girl called Maxine Carsboult was brought to our attention and it appears that she has not only used Julia’s work for her degree coursework but also many examples of students work from Kingston University. She has simply traced much of Julia’s work as you can see from the examples, only very small details are changed.

Maxine’s University has been contacted and efforts are now underway to ensure she pays the appropriate penalty for her outrageous plagiarism.

Examples below:

Some more, notice the cat design from Julia’s existing tattoo range currently on sale. Maxine has switched the angle, changed it a little and added a Santa hat. She’s also cut the arm off short where it normally held onto the original dog.

Next is Julia’s pillow print design featuring the big bear. Maxine has simply stolen, traced and re-coloured.

We found there was a Kingston University connection. This was a poster designed and drawn by a Kingston student for a local pub gig. Now look at the cat in the picture frame as part of the collection shown on Maxine’s website. You’ll also notice much of Julia’s work there too! (beach huts, animal party, the birds, bear etc.) We can only hope this wasn’t her degree show display, since it’s made up almost exclusively of other people’s work.

Copies of Irana Douer’s work, Irana’s are the first 2:

There are some subtle differences, they have been redrawn but the similarity is unmistakeable.

Here are some examples of Maxine stealing Amy Blackwell’s illustrations, again Amy’s are first:

Amy’s have been on sale on the internet for some time, Maxine has simply re-coloured the original.

Finally here is another one of Julia’s works, The Ocelot. Again Julia’s is first and the second picture shows Maxine holding the stolen image (claiming it as her own on her blog) this image was taken from the blog.

If you want to see more examples of Maxine’s theft, check out Julia’s site here : http://juliapott.blogspot.com/

Compare that to Maxine’s site here: http://cowgirlmax.blogspot.com/

Shameful…there’s no other word for it.

There are many more examples of theft on her various websites and we doubt that ANYTHING she has or is exhibiting is her own work. Has anyone actually seen her draw a picture?

…Friends of Julia…

It has also come to our attention that she has stolen the work of Gemma Corell, Amy Blackwell, Nan Lawson, Kate Wilson, Iran Douer and others who at the moment we cannot confirm as of writing.

STOP PRESS – as of the 13th July 2010 ALL examples of Maxine Carsboult’s stolen work has disappeared without trace from the internet.

The following accounts have been deleted:

Facebook,

Twitter,

Tumblr,

http://cowgirlmax.blogspot.com/

http://cowgirlmax.carbonmade.com,

http://flavours.me/cowgirlmax

Her references on the Yellow Jelly site have been removed.

http://abduzeedo.com/awesome-milk-typography-effect-photoshop

vs.

http://www.milk.my/

Nice place, those looks expensive… Should have spent a little more on the logo.

Hi friends, my name is Flora Chang and I am the designer behind Happy Doodle Land. About two weeks ago, one of my Flickr contact emailed me and let me know that while traveling in Korea, she saw a t-shirt with my rough sketch “Mustached Owl” being sold there. The problem is, I’ve never authorized any company to use my image on their shirts. The company which ripped me off is called “Broccoli”, and they even claim the design to be theirs on their label. They completely took my sketch and placed it on their shirt without even changing it one bit. Please take a look of them side by side here. I don’t know if there is any legal action I can take, or if I even want go through the trouble, but at least I can post it here and let you know.

Here is my original sketch from 2008:

Here is a closer look of the copycat shirt:

I just saw this on TV, its a commercial for an instant coffee brand called Arlistan. It reminds me a lot to the well known Hayao Miyazaki’s movies, specially “Howl’s Moving Castle” and “Princess Mononoke” . What do you think?

Arlistan commercial:

Miyazaki’s work:

Amazing. I guess it’s okay for a government official to steal from a corporation. Nowadays, giving him the logo rights wouldn’t even be unethical…

*Update*

I’ve been trying to talk to the company that manufactured the t-shirt and so far they seem to have no intention to resolve this matter. All I got are just “We’ll handle this immediately” and “We’ll contact you again soon.” If things stay this way I think I’m gonna have to take this to court. Wish me luck.

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Hello everyone. My name is Rachmat Lianda and I’m a 23 year old photographer/designer living in Jakarta, Indonesia. I went to Kelapa Gading 3 Mall in Jakarta yesterday and serendipitically found out myself that Factor Alternative Outfitters have ripped my typography work here:

and made this silly parody here:

which design is too hilarious i’m not even laughing.

I asked the store clerk about the t-shirt and she said it’s a new collection which was launched a week ago. I bought the shirt (and tried real hard not to bite the store clerk’s head off, I realized it’s not really her fault) as a proof. I knew from the store clerk that the brand has several branches in Jakarta, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, and Malang (all in Indonesia) so maybe the t-shirt can be found in there too. Took a better picture of the t-shirt, overlaid it with the work, and look what I have here:

I went to the website, www.factor-outfitters.com, but apparently it’s inactive. I checked the cached page and found out that it also has branches in Singapore: Junction 8, S.C and White Sand S.C.  If you live in Singapore maybe you could help me check? It’ll be very appreciated.

I found the office address, which is located here in Jakarta too, so I guess I’ll send them a Cease & Desist Letter today. There’s also a facebook page so I’ll a put the C& D Letter on a note and tag them or something. Will update later, hopefully with good news. Wish me luck.

Junk Food claimed their designers were searching for inspiration for a music series line of t-shirts on the internet and came across my turntable design in a blog. I had an attorney write a Cease & Desist letter to Junk Food. I didn’t have enough money to take them to court so they wrote a letter of apology and we settled on a payment.

My design:

Brooke's Turntable design

Junk Food’s version on a t-shirt:

Junk Food's version of my turntable

I was fortunate enough to find the t-shirt in a local boutique called Chrome in Lubbock, TX. I actually found it once more in Forever 21 in the Lubbock Mall. A friend found a girl’s version of the tee in Heritage 1981.

Today we found out that an original illustration from my girlfriend seniorita polyester is being printed on wallets produced by an argentinian brand called Mundo Ilustrado. They didn’t just add the image without permision but they also alterated the color and did a little treatment to the design. The sad thing is that they claim to be designers but sell other peoples work without giving any credit.
We found out via facebook.

This is the original watercolor by seniorita polyester

This is the wallet by Mundo Ilustrado

This impressive cosplay of the character Kuchiki from the anime Bleach can be seen as one of those ads that pops up all over the place… you know the types… The original picture can be found on google using the tagline “bleach cosplay toothbrush” (And I HIGHLY recommend that fans of this particular anime should take a look themselves, while possibly temporarily disabling the adult filter.) I don’t have definitive proof that the owner wasn’t contacted and permission wasn’t gained, but I seriously doubt that the company went through the trouble of tracking the girl down for something like that.

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