Cardians wrote:Similarities don't equal rip-off. They're completely different designs. Leave it to Amy to push a future designer away by having them shutdown their IG account because they got "caught".
First off, I wrote literally one comment on his OPENLY PUBLIC IG stating that they looked similar; something along the lines of
"wow - those look great but also a lot like @dkngstudio's Wheels deck they designed for @artofplay." I didn't delete his IG nor even suggest that he do so - he did that all on his own - so how can you possibly hold me responsible for his or anyone else's actions???
And I think it's only socially responsible to make others aware when their designs seem awfully close to someone else's work because
if he was
only "inspired" by another's work as it seems he obviously was in designing this deck, he should give credit where it is due to the original illustrators that came up with the concept and created the designs to avoid copyright infringement; but instead of defending his work and being open to discussion, he chose to immediately shut it down as if he was trying to hide my comment and his work from anyone else taking notice, which seems kinda suspicious, don'tcha think??
oh, and fyi: "rip-off" means inferior imitation, ie. similar - so yea, similarities can equal rip-off as I do believe this deck is proven to be; I was very deliberate in NOT calling these designs a copy as it's obviously NOT an exact copy and even went as far as to point out & credit the designer's effort (although very minimal) for the minor difference he did happen to make in the linework as seen with side-by-side comparisons I provided, but anyone with eyes can see that even with small elements added/removed/changed, there's some very, VERY strong resemblance between the two designs that I personally find VERY hard to fathom that the two deck designs just so happen to have been created completely by coincidence...
