Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Got a Minute for E.Webscapes?

Elite by Design has a blog post entitled, "Getting Inspiration Wrong: Website Rip Offs," in which the author offers paired comparisons of possible rip offs. I open our Got a Minute for E.Webscapes with the EbD link to get you thinking about the boundary between inspiration and rip-offspiration.

Assignment:
  1. Take a few minutes to read through that post.
  2. Head over to E.Webscapes.
  3. I don't think that E.Webscapes is exactly "ripping off" some other design, but there's a very close family resemblance to design elements used by some big company whose logo is a piece of forbidden fruit. Steve Nojobs has compiled all 27 of this company's ads on his blog page, for those of us who need help figuring out the design "inspiration" for E.Webscapes. Is this out of bounds?
Think that "borrowing" a silhouette logo idea and repackaging it in a different format means it can't be a ripoff? Check out youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com and think again.

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Juan said...

That's crazy that people are getting away with that. I mean, it's not too far-fetched to believe it, but the idea that someone would steal a website design never cross my mind. At least there are people like Elliot Jay Stocks who are trying to put a stop to it by naming the sites and people that are stealing.

Mon Mar 23, 05:01:00 PM EDT

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