Comments on: Optimum Design & Consulting? Copyright Fail and Design Theft

By: j 41 shoes

j 41 shoes — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:50:48 +0000

I agree, I am living in Canada, and I looove your show and would love to see what you could do for us !!!I think it would be FABULOUS!

By: Jon Humberstone

Jon Humberstone — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:19:17 +0000

Comparing Optimum Consulting’s use of your script with yours, and the hideous tattoo site with your site for Gavin is actually a really great lesson in design! I’m no pro, like you, but I can see how integral the function is to the design of your sites. They are elegant solutions.

For them, there is a total disconnect there – it just becomes a gimmick. Not to mention that OC’s site takes you to the brink of grand mal seizure.

By: Daren Guillory

Daren Guillory — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:34:13 +0000

Sorry you’re being ripped. I think it would be flattering at first, but then rather annoying. This happened to me during my education, but never professionally. Either way, YOU know who created what first, right? I guess that’s all that matters. Keep up the good work.

By: Darwin Stephenson

Darwin Stephenson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:24:08 +0000

I love how the front page of the link you provided in your post to (logopond.com) contains an advertisement for “Domain Log Book” which clearly is a rip-off of the Mac OS X Address Book application icon. Is that ironic or what?

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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:47:27 +0000

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By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:39:13 +0000

That is a bummer to hear how many times your work has been plagairized. I keep hearing abuot this from many designers, it’s so commonplace!

You are an exellent designer though, keep doing what you do!
~Lauren

By: GavCaz

GavCaz — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:35:10 +0000

I understand your pain! When Eve 6 dropped “Heart In A Blender” I was shocked. And very surprised. That shaved monkey of a lead singer didn’t even bother to paraphrase me when he said, “Wanna put my tender heart in a blender,
Watch it spin round to a beautiful oblivion,
Rondezvous then I’m through with you.” They don’t just jeopardize their reputation when they do that, they damage our collective soul.
PS. Collective Soul also stole something from me:
“Yeah”

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:40:02 +0000

Oh, and thanks for the Blackout font as well!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:39:34 +0000

I really like your site. You have done a great job and I’m so sorry to see that it has been ripped off. Keep up the great work!

You are very “rightfully paranoid”!

By: Liz Pike

Liz Pike — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:51:13 +0000

Optimum Design site should post a warning about their migraine-inducing graphics before clicking through. I may be a hillbilly designer but this hillbilly is smart enough to recognize when a carnival is best left out on a Wal-Mark parking lot, not a business website.

By: RyBacorn

RyBacorn — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:25:09 +0000

Tyler, Sorry to hear about the rips. Now you know how the RIAA feels (that’s a joke). One thing I noticed what that when you strip the css away the same “Oh no! You are using a pretty out-of-date browser (Internet Explorer 6 – whoops!)…” comes up. Other than post in your blog and spread the word, is their nothing you can do to protect your property?
Good luck,
worker down the road

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:37:28 +0000

I’ve had stuff ripped (even entire brands by a client’s competitor!) before, but one of the worst was when a “design” firm not 10 miles from us put a screenshot of our site in their portfolio for their web design section. We found out when a potential client of theirs called us for a reference to verify the work that THEY did for US (our site)! An odd conversation ensued but we actually ended up working with the their potential client, who’s now our client as has been for several years.

By: Teri's Digs - infringe this

Teri's Digs - infringe this — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:50:38 +0000

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By: Samuel Ryan

Samuel Ryan — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:44:12 +0000

I don’t understand how anyone can actually steal a design, I can understand heavy inspiration, I can understand taking elements, but copy and pasting source code? I’ve always been tempted to; I’m a terrible designer, but I’ve always settled with a design that I’ve created myself, it might not be of good quality, or worth looking at, but it’s a hell of a lot better than looking at someone else’s work. if you’re incapable of building your own website, what are your clients going to get? It’s terribly misleading.