Hi everyone! My name is Pablo, I live in Buenos Aires (Argentina), and as you can see on the left, I'm really a newcomer here, as this is my first post. Sorry for my primitive and awful english.
I took the time on registering and writing this post just to explain a few things, hope you understand me. I'm a freelance designer, and I named my portfolio "Ars Nova", you can see it at http://www.arsnovadesign.com.ar . Please take a look at it.
As you can see, Mark's site is identical, not just and "idea" of it. Logo, colors, the Bauhaus type on logo is -i hate to say this- copied from me. The point on the "i" letter even has the same three colors than my flower.
You can say "well... ok... but who came first?". Please let me refer you some entrys in which my site was featured:
Ala Brasil (11/08/2007). You can see date on the URL: http://www.alabrasil.com/2007/11/08/arsnovadesign/
Gouw.nu (11/19/2007). Go to the archives section... it was featured as the "styled" site of the day: http://www.gouw.nu/
The Daily Slurp (11/10/2007). Take a look at the Slurp for this day: http://www.dailyslurp.com/default.aspx?dts=11/10/2007
Web Creme (11/2007): http://www.webcreme.com/2007/11/ars-nova/
Design Snack (11/07/2007): http://www.designsnack.com/?page=info&id=5113
And many others as CSS Mania, CSS Clip, etc...
I'm really aggrieved that I have to came to this point, but as I saw that you gave Mark a recognition, I thought it would be fair that you know this. I'm not really stick to my work, in this few months I even had been asked for permission to make a Wordpress template based on my design (PortfolioPress), and my answer was "Good, go ahead!". That designer was Magnus Jepson, from Norway... and he did a really good job! And I didn't get a penny for that... but this one thing came too far.
Sorry for this post. But I really needed to express myself. Hope you understand me. If I bother somebody, my most sincere apologies.
Regards,
Pablo Rodriguez Molinari
www.arsnovadesign.com.ar