Style Dilemma

20111206 Style Dilemma

Today I stumbled upon a webstore called Style Dilemma that stole 6 of my illustrations.

UPDATE: Since posting this I was able to find an email address for their site that actually worked. They have since pulled down my designs. Since I know they have stolen from many other artists I am going to leave the email address here so that you can contact them if your art has been stolen as well. silverd3@naver.com

Daily Drawing #989.

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  • kaitlin

    wow that is horrible!! Didn’t even try to cover that one up a little bit HAHA! How did you come across it????

  • http://chrispiascik.com chrispiascik

    Ugh, I know. Terrible! I was playing around with the Google image search and I dragged a drawing onto the window and found this as a match. It was the first drawing I tried…

  • ben Thompson

    Links no longer work.
    Remember to Copy pages and art on pages before they take them down.
    Post on your own website (here). Compare yours with theirs.
    If not, did it happen?

  • Truebluemeandyou

    I forgot how to do something in photoshop, so I went to find MY tutorial on YouTube to refresh my memory. So I type in my tags and find it’s been copied onto 5 other YouTube photoshop sites, which is odd because it’s not one of my popular tutorials. Luckily YouTube has a good copyright infringement process. For my images and my father’s images I routinely use the chrome google search by image extension so all I have to do is right click on my images to see where they’ve landed up. It’s sucks when people steal things.

  • ben Thompson

    When someone has a simple, graphic design I always wonder if it is always wise to post it on the internet.
    Myself I have cut back from posting everything I draw and do on the internet.
    One has to ask themselves why post everything?
    Who is one trying to impress or get the attention of? Is 5 of one’s designs enough, why put up 100 or more? And if your best 5-10 aren’t enough to get attention, will 100-200 more help?
    (And put copyright and your name on the graphic.)
    Say one is trying to let an art director know of one’s talent. How about instead print up a postcard or flyer and send it to them? Anyone have any other ideas?

  • http://chrispiascik.com chrispiascik

    Ben, posting daily drawings is what I do. I’ve been doing it for 4 years—I’ve built my career around it.

  • ben Thompson

    Chris – I do not understand why you do not (at least on the internet version) put your name, copyright and date on or next to your art, part of the digitial file.
    As is, if your art gets copied from your website & passed on to others, no one would know who created the art. (Some copier could give the excuse of “somebody emailed it to me, there was no name on it so how am I supposed to know who created it or the rights restricted or it was not freeware-art?)
    A single line with copyright info would up your protection level and let others know who created the art.
    Plus (on your website) slicing the images into 2-3 parts makes it a bit more troublesome for those who “right click and save the image”.
    Artists can do a bit more to protect their art.

  • http://chrispiascik.com Chris Piascik

    Ben, I’d have to overlay that info on the actual drawing (which would look awful). If not, it could easily be cropped out. I’d rather risk having a drawing stolen once in a while than make all of them look bad.

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Chris Piascik is a New England artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. With 8 years of professional experience at award-winning firms in New England, he is currently working as a freelance designer and illustrator, and just presented his 6th solo exhibition. He holds degrees in Visual Communication Design and Art History from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, where he has moonlighted as an instructor of design courses. In 2008, the American Institute of Graphic Arts selected his poster design as a winning entry for its Get Out the Vote campaign. His other recognitions include Gold Awards, Silver Awards, Excellence Awards, Judges Award and the Spirit of Creativity Award from the Connecticut Art Director’s Club as well as a BoNE award from the AIGA. In addition his work has been published in numerous books and publications including Print and Communication Arts, the Logo Lounge series, Typography Essentials and Lettering, Beyond Computer Graphics and Bike Art: Bicycles in Art Around the World. Previous clients include: Chronicle Books, Nike, Goodbyn, Mayer Hawthorne, Odyssey, Gnarls Barkley, Monolith Music Festival, Eat Boston, and Theaterworks.

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