flag based original design from visualsportdesign.blogspot.com, published december 2012.
please, don't plagiarize basic idea, few days latter, after appierance visualsportdesign.blog spott.com here.

thank you.

Accusing someone of ripping off your idea for a Flag based Croatia design is like accusing someone who builds a bicycle of ripping off the first guy who did it. Every single shirt Croatia have ever worn has been based on the national flag, and accusing someone else of ripping your design off is misguided in the extreme.

On the competition, the designs for Croatia (and for other countries, such as Germany) are going to be based on the national flag by default.

Well for a start I've never heard of your blog, never mind visited it. The template used here I created for the Latvia kit I made before this one.

ok.
coincidence!
but l would do it on different way, just because of 'coincidence', because l really don't like her...

cheers!

p.s.
you made mistake...
-croatia away noway has white socks, that is not possible. if you want change blues one, rather change them in red. whiite noway.
--you have competition demanded shorts number
-you have on the back two different fonts
- ' Republika Hrvatska' is noway possible headline on the kit, only 'croatia'(eng.) or 'Hrvatska'(cro.), or HNS(football association )...is possible

The basic design idea is very similar.

There are so many more differences than similarities.

visualsportdesign's has a red collar with white trim - CiaranW90's blue with no trim
visualsportdesign's has a halftone pattern watermark - not on CiaranW90's.... infact it's a Warrior W
Solid red bar along shoulders - CiaranW90 has a red and white checkered pattern
visualsportdesign has the Croatian badge centrally inside white bar - CiaranW90 has the Croatian badge centrally overlapping the white bar with a blue border.
No cuffs - red cuffs
side pattern - no side pattern

I could go on...

The main similarity is the badge centrally (like it is on the flag which is the point of the competition!!) but even then they're both done differently!!!

Jesus f**king christ - just run his IP address against your blog and see if he even visited it, if he didn't then this thread becomes more silly than it already is - and since Im 100% sure he didn't plagiarize, you should apologize for such a statement.

Accusing someone of plagiarism is a serious thing and should not be thrown around easily - I honestly do not think they are that similar. If I were to do a Croatian away kit, I think this one would appear in my sketch book, even more so if they are based on the flag.

Ciaran is in my opinion one of the best designers on this page and often uses decorative secondary graphics (look at his stuff, he often uses a middle positioned emblem); his stuff looks well put together, subtle and innovative in many cases - not like a Power Ranger suit.

Whats with your attitude? Telling people off without a shred of proof. Also, telling people 'noway has white socks', 'competition demanded shorts number', '' Republika Hrvatska' is noway possible headline on the kit' etc etc, not to mention the excessive use or sarcastic smileys. This is a fantasy kit forum - its here to experiment and try out new things, so dont tell people 'noway' 'you made mistake', offer your opinion, not a final judgement.

Also, Im a typeface designer and I promise you - It is absolutely fine to mix 2 fonts... its called a complimentary font.

to be fair to visualsportdesign (if that is his real name...), i'm guessing he is croatian therefore very passionate about their designs, it's no different from anyone else being highly critical of kits made for the club/country they support (although he has crossed the line a little), maybe his english isn't best as well, hence why it seems like he writes with a lot of attitude

My comments don't mean I don't like you designs, visualsportdesign.

In fact I really like a lot of them. The Croatian kit away you've done which has caused this debate is very very good.

It's just that I see a similarity with your design and this one and that's it. I don't think there has been any intended copying of ideas.