Yep,

The pirates strike again. My old site's design has been ripped off, and the guy is a... freelance designer??? what!?
I think he should swap that title with SCAM ARTIST.

I would love to see someone design a site that is inspired by my work.. that would be awesome. By why do people have to straight copy it... they actually take the time to download every single one of my images (I have hotlink prevention), and every line of code.

Anyway, check out the thief here: http://www.livestudio.be/

He even has a blog post announcing "his" new re-design: http://www.livestudio.be/fr/index.php?newsid=5

To Jeremy the priate from livestudio.be: Try asking before stealing.

Thanks a ton to Colum for the heads up on this one :)

Someone needs to create a community site that exposes these types of crooks (like a css gallery), and the ENTIRE design community can know when this happens. Then these guys will "never work in this town again". lol

Peace,
Drew

*** UPDATE: The thief has taken the site down, that was quick! But it gets BETTER!! He put up a coming soon page, and on it there is a light blue gradient background... THAT IS MY BACKGROUND IMAGE for the Valio, inc. site!!!!!

Open up my Valio site in one tab and his coming soon page in another. Switch back and forth and you will see it is the SAME repeating image. This is hilarious!! This "freelance designer" lacks sooo much creativity he can't even make his own gradient from scratch... he has to go and download mine... unbelievable!!

This is a first, normally people tear down my stolen design, but this guys tears it down only to steal more of my images!!

To the Pirate Jeremy: Come on bro, you are better than this. Just open photoshop and have fun.