While this is awful, I want to encourage you and other designers here to investigate who is responsible. I’ve noted three occasions this week where a company was sold a design from a wannabe artist, causing the real creator to throw a social networking fit (and rightly so). The CEOs from these companies very publicly stepped forward and apologized, offering to contact them to resolve the issue. If you haven’t heard from them yet with all the flaming, someone internal is likely to blame.

I wish you luck and hope all of us can do our best to make the online community a safe place for both artists and businesses of integrity!

I know you’re upset and I’m going to get a bunch of hate for this, but they do actually look like different designs. The pins are larger in the Lululemon design, and the links are wider in the middle, and the space between the links is smaller. And while it follows your overall pattern of a spiral, the actual turns the chain takes are different.

While your work is lovely, I think you’d be hard put to prove that someone else didn’t come up with it up on their own, or that the idea is “yours” rather than the specific image.

Best of luck.

best of luck.

Yes, the folks at lululemon are such innovators. That’s like me printing a company logo on a golf ball and saying I partnered with Titleist to create the best loft and distance in the sport. (SMH)

Good luck with the infringement lawsuit, Jen!