A person named Yogesh Darge, based in Mumbai, India, has just plagiarized the logo I created for the Baguio Centennial 2009. The final version of the logo can be seen above.
Here is his Flickr page and the website of his “professional” Design-Studio.
Ay naku these plagiarists!
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UPDATE: 16 January 2008
I sent one warning FlickrMail and a Cease and Desist Order via eMail.
The plagiarist has so far removed the butterfly logo from most of the branding on his website, although the favicon is still the same copied logo based on this one.
The photos/graphics on his Flickr page are also now hidden (not deleted)… but his avatar is still the same plagiarized logo.
Even spelled “believe” wrong… 
Whoever you are, if you want to make it big in the design industry you’ll have to be incredibly ORIGINAL and IMAGINATIVE. You can probably use somebody else’s work as INSPIRATION but never as a stencil for your own work.
Bad karma, bad karma, bad karma to you.
2 Responses to “I’ve been ripped (again)! Baguio Centennial logo plagiarized”
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January 25th, 2008 at 4:45 am
I’m sorry to hear that this happened but I can’t say I’m surprised. Your work is amazing and the nature of the Web is that all good things are plagiarized. Sad, but true.
However, I am glad that the situation was largely resolved. On that note, if there is anything that I can do to help, please let me know!
January 26th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
All I can say about your logo is WOW! Maybe you should look into registering your intellectual property before releasing it so you can sue