Fourfontaine have contacted us & wish to rectify the situation by pulling the top & have offered to pay us for units made. They said they outsource most of their designs which unfortunately can result in situations like this. They didn't know this design was ripped off until now. My goal with this post was just for people to know, & it worked! Kudos Fourfontaine & thanks to all our supporters, it really means a lot :)
On Friday night while having dinner with a friend who is also a designer, we were discussing copyright and how there seems to be many fashion houses etc with very similar designs. The next day I was looking at the Fourfontaine website I discovered they've ripped us off! I am still in a state of shock, this plagiarism makes me feel absolutely sick to my stomach. Seriously, can't they get their own ideas? & did they really think no one would notice in a country as small as ours? The worst part of it is, it makes me like our logo less, it has tainted it for me :(
The Fourfontaine top-
Our business card-
Our shop windows-
Our website-
A repeat I designed for the blog background a while back-
You can read more on plagiarism at-
Book by it's cover
You thought we wouldn't notice
14 comments:
THAT SUCKS!!! BOO
Boo! See this also
http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/fineart/a-sad-story-must-read
Oh my gosh!!!! Cheats!
Wow Aimee, that's extreme! That girl will have to change her name & have plastic surgery if she ever wants to work again!
That's bad. I hope you and your friends have success in court. Will you take your case to court?
you should submit this to http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/ - they're all about putting plagiarism out where people can't ignore it. Blatant stuff like this needs to be shown as completely unacceptable :(
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Thanks for letting me know about this, I hope people find out about it.
Also, I love how your blogger lets people know I commented then deleted it!
They have also had a go at biting that Stolen Girlfriends Club "The end has no end" print...
That's very bad.
I So know how you feel! Really I do. So sorry to hear that that happened and good on you for standing up to them. And good to see they tried to make it right. I still have not confronted the people who ripped off my Lucky Dip craft nights. I have been hosting Lucky Dip C.N. for over a year and a half. Then last month found out some girl has just stolen the concept & changed the name to "Surprise" craft night hosting it in a bar??? grrrrr. Even copied all our Advertising down to the letter. How do these people sleep? Do they have no soul. Just wanted to say good job and that you inspire me to do the same.
It was certainly interesting for me to read that blog. Thanks for it. I like such topics and everything that is connected to this matter. I definitely want to read more on that blog soon.
Keep on posting such stories. I love to read articles like that. BTW add some pics :)
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