My new blog is up and running – not finished yet, there’s still more to add, but I’ve made the first post today. After a false start, I’ve actually gone over to Typepad – I can do pretty much everything I want to with it, and it’s rather easier than setting up a WordPress blog with a host. So I’m sorry WordPress, I loved you, but we must part because I’m not a techie 
Anyway, please come and say hello!
(I’m leaving this blog up though, as it’s an archive of my direct response drawings).
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Tagged: archive, new blog
Strong Arvid
isn’t he just – a direct response drawing with details (and weights) added afterwards.
This is another one which has it’s origins in the incomparable Swedish Outdoor Life.
Things have been busy round here – and hot! It’s so stuffy here. August has wrapped us in a warm damp blanket – urgh. Still the corn is high, the courgettes are coming on and we have a bumper crop of garlic and red onoins to lift and dry this weekend – so it’s not all bad.
An update on the Lauren Nassef/Samantha Beeston issue – SB has stolen more than 32 drawings by Lauren – and a few others by other illustrators too. There are images of her website on Book-by-it’s-Cover and even her header was one of Lauren’s drawings. Incredible! What was this girl thinking?! I’m astounded.
Categories: direct response · illustration · sketchbook
Tagged: art, direct response drawing, drawing, illustration, sketchbook
I’ve just discovered that one of my favourite contemporary illustrators has had her work stolen and used by a young British designer by name of Samantha Beeston. Not only that but Beeston won an award for the work – but of course, it’s precisely because she won the award that she has been discovered – poetic justice, I think.
You can see Lauren Nassef’s extraordinary drawings here: http://www.laurennassef.com/
And some photos of Beeston with the stolen images here:
http://www.texprint.org.uk/2009/winners_2009.htm
http://www.newdesigners.com/page.cfm/Action=ExhibitorLibrary/LibraryID=3/ProductID=327/viewHiRes=_self/
I’m appalled that she did this and staggered that she thought she could get away with it.
Since copyright law applies regardless of whether one displays a copyright statement on one’s blog or not (or so I understand it anyway!) I have never displayed a statement, but clearly there are people out there who need constantly reminding that plagiarism is not only morally repugnant, it isTHEFT.
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Tagged: copyright, lauren nassef, plagiarism, samanthat beeston, theft
