Comments on: Rant: The Difference Between Uettbein? & Wellbeing

By: squid

squid — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:29:42 +0000

A friend at a shitty branding company in Dublin told me that they had created a promotional poster of my work! For them! Without ever contacting me! They just scanned in a personal piece and printed that shit out with their logo!

Some people have brass balls!

By: João Franco

João Franco — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:36:02 +0000

Hello.. I’m sad. Like I suspected, his other logos are ripped off too. He took two of mine. Please see this: http://arpad.deviantart.com/ On the right panel there’s a journal entry called SCANDAL – project rip by Gareth Howells… I really don’t know what to do. I spoke to Garrick Webster, CA editor and he is going to put my letter on the next edition.

By: Alberto Orsini

Alberto Orsini — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:06:36 +0000

Gareth not only used this, he stole a bunch of logos and published them on the magazine, and he is being sued. Here’s the link: http://arpad.deviantart.com/journal/17007646/

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:10:45 +0000

I hope he’s learnt something too… ’cause it was either that or sue the guy.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:57:13 +0000

Rightfully so you should be pissed. He even used the same colours, how lazy.

Plus, as you say, the entire act shows complete disregard for the concept of developing a logo that reflects and/or represents the company/project/whatever.

I guess nobody credits Tobias and Jonathan when they create a logotype in Gotham. But on your site it does look like it’s an individual piece of work, which makes it worse to have stolen. And even if you had the typeface available for download, what kind of idiot would copy the layout and colour of a typeface specimen/example image? He’s got balls, I’ll give him that much.

Bless the internet, hope he has read your post and experienced the appropriate amount of Design Shame! He has to live with himself AND a lot of other people knowing that he didn’t have an original idea or approach in his head. How embarrassing.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:13:54 +0000

I would have liked to maintain some sort of ‘professional detachment’ but the whole thing got me pretty miffed, mainly because it was so blatant. If Gareth had nicked the design from my website and done something new and surprising with it, then cool. But he didn’t.

I did consider writing to both Gareth and Computer Arts separately about it but in the end it just seemed easier and more, well more interesting, to air my grievances online and send them both a link to this post. Their individual responses I’m keeping private for now but, suffice to say, I feel sated at least… which is better than growing an ulcer.

By: ARF

ARF — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:43:51 +0000

A tutor once said to me “You are the product, not your work”, meaning someone can rip your last piece of design, but they can never be you, so there’s nothing to worry about. His advice in this situation was to contact whoever purchased the knock-off piece and offer your services for real – so I would contact Computer Arts, and say “why not hire me next time”.