Campbell Interactive

Via: Airbag Industries - Longboard

I hate when I hear about things like this. I know Dan, which is to say we’ve met, I attended his Carson workshop in Boston a while back. He’s a real nice guy, very mellow. I have both admired and learned from his design work using CSS. I own his books, I read his blog, SimpleBits, and I believe that he has been wronged in this situation.

Now I have my own opinion about sites like LogoMaid, the one involved in this little brew-ha-ha, that sells templates and/or logos for prices that we designers couldn’t compete with. While it is their every right to do so, assuming of course that it is in fact an original creation they own, I feel their existence is part of the reason that design as a profession is not looked upon by the general public with the regard it deserves. It is a craft that takes talent, training and experience and it is disheartening to see it packaged up and sold in bulk as though it were toilet paper on the shelves of Costco. Where it really starts to go off the tracks though is when these designs come dangerously close to out right theft.

This appears to be the case here in Dan’s situation and while that in and of itself is a shame the attempts to derail the attention brought to this by the site’s owner are enough to make me ill, even going so far as to threaten legal action against Dan for using his own logo. Well it’s just shameful in my opinion. I don’t have a flickr account to comment in the thread so I comment here. Dan, just so you know I’m behind you bud, go get em.