Design Cover Song
A friend of a co-worker sent me an interesting link today. It’s the first time I’ve seen a blatant rip-off of my design work.
Here’s my design for the Getty Images homepage (scaled down quite a bit):
And here’s Hypeful.com’s Top 27 Albums of 2007 not-so-original header graphic:
At least he put his own touch on it by adding reflection to the type. I think that’s a bad call, but hey, he’s the designer.
UPDATE Jan 3: The Hypeful.com website seems to be down is back up. I sent a polite email to the site’s owner to see what gives. We’ll see if he responds….
UPDATE Jan 4: Well, I didn’t receive an email response, but as of this morning, he has swapped out the pilfered graphic for something else. ‘Nuff said.
UPDATE Jan 10: I eventually received a very friendly and apologetic email from Lucas, the site’s owner. It seems that an acquaintance of his created the graphic, and Lucas was unaware of the design’s origins. Coincidentally, I’ve really been enjoying Lucas’s excellent music site, so plenty of good has come of all this.
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January 2nd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
What high school photoshop class did he fail out of?
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Wow.
You’d think this ‘designer’ would have changed *something* about the design before publishing as their own work, olive color, tweeters reversed, something. Very funny stuff. Kind of like that scene in Coming to America with McDowells restaurant.
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
You can either be very flattered or a mad as all hell!
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Oh, mostly amused, and definitely flattered.