Might I start by saying that nothing in art/design is original. Some famous artist said something along those lines long before me and I think Keith Richards said the same thing about music. However, taking inspiration from art/design is a lot different than outright pilfering someone’s design. If you call yourself a web designer and can’t even muster the ability to design your own damn site, what’s that say about you? Not much in my book. I’m a big fan of integrity and the woman below has none. She did something worse than rip off someone’s design; she ripped off a friends design and now my wrinkled collar is getting a bit warm.

My good friend Lorissa came across this site because the idiot who stole the design, Joanne Lousie Gailitis, left the original Google Analytics code in her “redesign.” Not a smart cookie. What’s even worse is her tag line she puts in the footer of the site; “Please don’t steal. That’s naughty.” For the paranoid among us, this makes me think she was setting it up to say that Lorissa stole the design from her but like I said, that’s for the paranoid among us and those of us, mainly me, who have doubts about the integrity of most of the people walking this basketball we call earth.

I would love to start a blog meme entitled ‘Joanne Lousie Gailitis is a thief.’ Wouldn’t that be fun? Instead I decided to write this post and encourage people to contact the thief with the subject line of ‘Please don’t steal. That’s naughty,’ and let her know what we think of her acts. I’ll even make it easy for you by giving you her email address une_cute_tomato@hotmail.com with the subject line in place; all you have to do is click the link and tell her what you think.