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Jeff Werner

I'm a designer in Vancouver, Canada. I work at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, am a director of the 221A Artist Run Centre, and a member of Fieldwork design collective. I'm an Emily Carr and University of Victoria graduate and have worked in the Philippines, Indonesia and the Netherlands. I'm a cycling advocate and race on the Garneau Evolution team.

design Daily Activities, January 25, 2006 6:20 PM 3 comments

Imitation is a Sign

The image below looks very familiar. It is a screen grab taken on January 24, 2006 from the homepage of http://weddingsalacarte.com. It looks familiar because it is the design from my site—the site you are reading right now—copied to another website, with some text changed (much not) and a new menu inserted at the top.


Familiar (ripoff) design.

As of Wednesday, January 26, 2006 the rip was taken down.

I’ll take this imitation as a compliment. Maybe I’ll even reconsider going into graphic design because of it. Thanks to Allstar, who found this site by means I'm not too clear on; I think he was actually searching for "copyright infringement".

3 comments on Imitation is a Sign

1. A | January 25, 2006 7:05 PM

I found it through this site: http://www.copyscape.com/

Two things I love about this rip-off:

1. He changed the copyright information.

2. Some of your content (del.icio.us links, quote of the day) were still active

2. Dave | January 26, 2006 8:18 AM

This is exactly why I prefer flash to text coded pages. At least it takes some effort to copy your work.

3. Lisa | January 26, 2006 9:12 AM

that website doesn't exist! why can't i find it?

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