Exactly. While it may be flattering to be copied, rote copying by a designer for what is presumed to be a demonstration of creativity is not acceptable.
Some of these are perfectly reasonable adaptations, others are quite close to duplicates.
That seems highly unlikely, unless he plagiarized himself. You might find something similar, but unlikely a split face with similar styling, the designer/code split, etc.
Everything is a remix. Everything we do is based on something we have seen somewhere, how else could we do it ? Hardly anything is original, creativity is just the process of knowing how to mix things in a creative way to create something seemingly new.
Yeah, not really. There are traces from previous works and influences in anything, but this is not it.
This is not the Beatles being influenced from Buddy Holy, Elvis, Little Richard, and co in their early records.
This is like the Monkeys. Or the 20th cookie cutter R&B outfit.
And of course the Beatles went and did stuff that nobody else has done at the time with Revolver and Stg Peppers et al. And Velvet Underground. And Kraftwerk. And tons of others.
>creativity is just the process of knowing how to mix things in a creative way to create something seemingly new.
Well, then the examples in this website is the total opposite of it.
I also don't understand how someone who is supposedly a creative type and makes their own art/copyright material be able to unabashedly steal something like this.
What's even creepier by the way, is that some people even copied his smile and hair style for their photos.
I like how, out of the 20 examples, 10 of them essentially copied the HTML snippet in the 'Coder' section of the 2012 image. Most of them even left the "jedi" div intact.
On the other hand, only 6 of the examples copied the yellow-blue-pink splotch motif from the 'Designer' section.
(These don't have any meaning in the bigger scheme of things; they're just statistics that amused me.)
What I find amusing is the fact that quite a few people didn't even bother to change the designer blurb, which to me suggests they know absolutely f all about design and hints at why they find it necessary to copy in the first place.
Hell, a lot of them didn’t even change the face on the “designer” side! It doesn’t look like them at all, and doesn’t line up with the altered “coder” side.
Yeah, like most of all people who claim to be designers, they're not designers. They're pixel-pushers. They don't know design, they know Illustrator and Photoshop.
Having worked with and competed against some such folks, I can guarantee you that they are not fighting for the same business as you. Their clients are usually small businesses who have no idea how the internet works, or clueless 'startup' guys who had an idea once and zero clue how to implement it.
So yeah, the people they sell their services to don't care about any of the stuff you and I would lose sleep over.
My favourite part is the people who imitated the facial expression. Like they saw the site and thought, "Nothing says good web designer like mouth scrunched off to the side"
Filterbubbles perhaps? I never saw a website like this before. But he says he was featured a couple of times, so maybe the website was famous on some communities, but seldom seen on others.
Everyone that has intellectual honesty and wants to feel pride of himself.
You are just saying that intellectual property worths zero. I wonder if somebody wants to travel somewhere and to make it more easy to accomplish, he steals your car. "Who gives a shit", "he got the job done", he is on his way! You worked your ass off to buy it but that's not important.
If everybody would be behaving like this what world would we get? Soon there would be nobody to copy and all the world would be like Asia.
Indian here. Finding good designers has become the bane of my existence. We don't have a strong design culture. What designers we do have are amateurs fighting for $5/hr projects on Elance. Their work is mostly borrowed and their skills limited to a handful of Photoshop effects and good Google skills.
The good designers we do have are almost never without work, and if they are available, they find other avenues to market their services than tacky, borrowed sites.
Plus, plagiarism isn't really looked down upon here. It's even the accepted norm in certain places.
Well it isn't like we have freedom to explore an idea either. I was a designer in a past life and gave up designing as neither did I want to compete with $5 designers nor did I want to copy a site as most clients insisted.
India's startup culture itself is hugely local copies of existing business models. Unless we realize this and address the fundamental issue we will be stuck in Copyland.
A while back I got really annoyed when two of my competitors copied the buttons, pricing table and the content of two of my websites. This guy is handling it well. I understand getting some inspiration, but copying the whole thing is just too much. They are "designers".
I found one especially ironic, where the guy has the nerve to call himself a "Creative Visionary"... He must be capable of some impressive doublethink if he's not just outright lying to his clients.
I have always felt that a lot of designers tend to copy stuff. But then again, perhaps coders copy code too. I guess, it's just easier to spot copied designs than copied code.
Since you only copied the navigation menu and you don't claim to be a designer, I think you fall under the category of inspired rather than copy cat :)
Why do you care? Isn't it better to just focus on perfecting your art, or your code, and not waste time trying to prevent people copying it in some way.
People are going to copy anyway, everything is a copy of something. But if you create your own style so perfected that it cannot be copied without tremendous amount of time, you are already ahead of everybody else in your skill.
Also, more time to develop your skill than to waste time on trying to prevent somebody else doing the same thing.
You could imagine using a special filter to pass your html/css/js though that applied a special transformation that you could later on try to recognize. Perhaps it renames all of the variables with some pattern or from some dictionary that you could later try to use to see if the code matched the pattern. This is along the ideas of stenography.
My guess is even basic obfuscation of his code via minification/compression would eliminate the majority of these copies. The version of his portfolio linked in the article has no obfuscation (granted it could be in dev mode)
Sure you could, if the code is complex enough you would hide dead code acting as a signature, which would be somewhat analogous to mapmakers inserting false towns in their maps [1]
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I can only guess why they weren't included, but it does seem like they're less blatant rip-offs than the others.