Fuck You Ripper

Don’t Hire: Brandon Day / Invocation

Hey guys. This is the first post on FYR and boy do we have a doozy right out of the gate. Meet Brandon Day. Brandon is a “graphic designer” from Kentucky who owns and operates a clothing company called Invocation.

Brandon’s body count includes tracing artwork, stealing entire designs, and even stealing code from competitor’s websites.

It should be noted that it would be hard to find any remaining evidence against Brandon because once he knew the art community was on to him, he dumped everything and shut down his store. Luckily we were able to get facebook to shutdown his page and get screen shots of everything before it was deleted. Lets take a look!

Matthew Skiff did this design for Ruckus Apparel. Brandon Day live traced the skull and deleted the pupil and spade.

Indonesian designer, Yoga did this design. At least Brandon made it…worse?

Sam Kaufman design for Middle Class Rut, stolen and reused for a tattoo shop.

Here’s a couple of designs he ripped off from Electric Zombie owner, Kyle Crawford
While it might be probable that Brandon made these two designs and it was a coincidence that they looked exactly like Kyle Crawford’s, I doubt he never saw the originals first. Here’s a blurb from an interview Brandon did discussing Invocation:
And Electric Zombie isn’t the only store he ripped off. This is a store called Monster Mash next to the Invocation store:
Its no surprise they look nearly identical. Brandon stole the CSS style sheet from Monster Mash
Well after everything he’s done at least Brandon can sleep at night knowing that, despite everything, the vision he planned for his company was unique and all his ide- wait. What’s that?
Jesus…

Thanks to the awesome crew over at Mintees for the great detective work. If you want to find some incredible apparel designers, that’s the place to go. Goodnight!