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Could they be twins?

So, I woke up this morning to a couple of emails from Speakerdog fans to show me this project...

http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2008/08/creative-dielin.html

Should I be flattered? Or annoyed? Is it worth being bothered? Or not? It was a student project after all.

I checked out the guy's site, his design work is pretty good, I really like some of his projects, so it's kind of a shame that he doesn't resort to his own design skills completely. Although he did add the legs to the main body, I don't know, maybe it's just a coincidence!

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Permalink Reply by Dr.Shazam on March 12, 2009 at 3:14pm

I realize this linked toy is supposed to be a freebie deal for inspiring a church youth ministry outreach, but that somehow makes it all the worse to so blatantly plagiarize. This one bugs me.

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Permalink Reply by Tephlon on March 12, 2009 at 7:28pm

These I would certainly contact. (The e-mail is right there in the PDF...) This is a straight rip off, I don't care that it was a freebie for an organization. they even used the image of the speakerdog, but they cut off the ears....

It's a bit bad for a catholic organisation to forget the eighth commandment, isn't it? ...

I demand that you demand an apology! ;-)

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Permalink Reply by ben the illustrator on March 13, 2009 at 1:47am

Holy Smoke! (haha, literally). Thanks so much for showing us this! Another terrible rip-off, we're going to give them an email today, see what they say! There is constantly so much ripping-off, makes my wife, Fi, and I are constantly sick of it, not just in the paper toys but the illustration and design world too!

I'll let you know what they say, and also perhaps I'll show and tell a few more rip-offs later too!

More power to Shin's 'We Don't Need Fake' project!

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Permalink Reply by Tephlon on March 13, 2009 at 4:02am

Ah, so that's what "We don't need fake" is about?

You should also submit those rip offs to http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/

It helps to shame people.

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Permalink Reply by Tephlon on March 13, 2009 at 4:30am

Hmm, I see I already posted that link. Heh.

Anyway. There is a reason I feel strongly about this stuff.

I too got inspired by Ben's Speakerdog. But, and I hope that I am right here, I was inspired by the shape, and didn't just stretch and maybe remove stuff.

My little devil has the speakerdog curves (Not that noticable in the photo, cheap paper version...) and has the same way of making ears (or horns in my case), The feet construction is also based on how the speakerdog has them.

Still I feel that it is different enough to show to people.
It's made out of one piece of paper, it has arms etc.

Inspiration is not a bad thing. Stealing is.

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Permalink Reply by Methuup da Funky One on April 28, 2009 at 12:12pm

Yo guys,
This time I found a Hedkase twin very blatant! doesn't even mention Hedkase, NiceBunny or Brian Castleforte.

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Permalink Reply by BW on May 3, 2009 at 1:57pm

we want a WDNF police! :D

these ones are so...... http://www.amitel.fr/papertoys

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Permalink Reply by Matthijs Kamstra aka [mck] on May 4, 2009 at 5:59am

wow, that is very low.. just a copy of the originals

I see a
- Macula
- Harlancore
- Horrorwood(?)
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- Marko Zubak
- Hedkase by Nick Knite
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- Big Chief

Not Nice.... :(

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Permalink Reply by ben the illustrator on May 5, 2009 at 12:52am

That's quite a find BW! Amazing number of rip-offs, with no credits, no links, nothing, crazy stuff.

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Permalink Reply by BW on May 6, 2009 at 1:12pm

these are not twins but real clones....
It's a shame because it is from a company who use them to promote their own skillz...

N°7 has a nice template. I dont know who is the copied artist...

for the involved artists: copycontact@amitel.fr