I finally got an email back from someone at Forever 21. However, It seemed like a generic, automated email, the same one everyone else who raised a stink about this issue got.
‘This 21Men’s graphic tee was purchased from a third party vendor and as soon we received word we removed the item from our inventory and contacted our vendor.’
This is not good enough. I want compensation, an apology, and a more detailed explanation as to how this happened. Forever 21 and other huge clothing corporations need to be more vigilant about finding the source of their designs, and make sure their images aren’t stolen from hardworking independent artists.I’m not gonna let this go. Who knows how many other artists are being ripped off like this?
Thanks so much for your support, everyone.
a man-made maze without an exit that we call brain
a tumblr gallery by alivegurl
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2 years, 9 months and counting…
Earlier today… (photo by @crystar3)
☼ ELLIOTOILLE SKETCHBOOK 2012 ☼
◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖° PREORDER AND GIVEAWAY POST! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜
I’m so excited to announce the release (finally) of my first book!! It’s a collection of sketches from (mostly) 2012. I’m taking preorders so I know what quantity to get printed. The first 20 preorders will get a small sketch of a character of their choice inside!
And if you reblog this post, you can win a free copy, no shipping cost or anything, with the preorder bonus sketch too. I will randomly select someone from the reblogs at the end of the preorder period.
ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS:
since my site’s store isn’t working with paypal at the moment, we’re gonna have to do this the hard-ish way.
-The price of the book is $22 for US orders and $34 for international. Shipping is included in these prices.
-Send the appropriate total to elainesmailaddress (at) gmail.com through paypal, and INCLUDE YOUR FULL MAILING ADDRESS with the payment!
-If you want to try for the preorder bonus then include links to references for the character you want in the message with your payment. ACTUALLY if the first 20 is already passed then you can add $5 to your order and include the references and I’ll add the bonus in for you!
-preorder period ends on April 15!
-if you’ve any further questions please message me.
*all prices in USD*
One of the pretty treasures I found upon yesterday’s afternoon walk
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A lil’ bit o’ winter reading?
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[#1260: When people ask if you can draw them and their response to the sketch is “Why does the face look like that!? That doesn’t look like me.”]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/df001adecc9661ba4465d29f4a5652cb/tumblr_mglmmqZO6j1r5rnmxo1_500.png)
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[#1260: When people ask if you can draw them and their response to the sketch is “Why does the face look like that!? That doesn’t look like me.”]
This just shows how dumber today’s generation has become :’<
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the latest in the lois-gets-her-art-stolen chronicles: a chilean publisher has decided to take this artwork, drag it through photoshop hell, and use it as a cover for this book, obviously without permission or compensation of any kind. not only is it copyright infringement but making book covers this ugly should be outlawed too.
anyways, i went through this before when i found my art printed on sweaters in south korea. i talked to a few different lawyers at the time, who told me that i needed a lawyer in the actual country that the theft was taking place.
The thief is Puerto de Escape in Chile (a publisher) and i intend to go after them. however, i need someone who is familiar with chilean law and ideally could hook me up with a lawyer in chile to help me out and give advice. i could also use advice from anyone familiar with these situations and how they can be resolved. if you guys could spread the word and e-mail me at loishh@gmail.com with any information, that would help me SO much! thanks a ton for reading!!
ouch :(
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Researching at this time on a Thursday just because I can
by Bitter-Cherry.
This is really true, I really am utterly amazed at the amount of people that view artists as “something not human”, almost as if we were machines. Then attack and become absolutely horrid because we won’t appease them or we don’t act a certain way like they want us to or because we “are getting attention we don’t deserve.” Artists work really hard on their works and to treat them like they don’t deserve attention for all that work or that they’re not human but a machine to appease you all is pretty lowly behavior…
This is also…really ironic since art is one of the most human subjects………. I….. This is painful to read. Painful because of how home sticking this is. I’m terrified of trying to hard because it means I will be exposing myself to this. There will always be the yin with the yang, negative to take along side the positive. It doesn’t make it any less disturbing when it pops its ugly head up to say hello.
REBLOGGING THIS SHIT SOOOOOO HARD!!!!!!!
WOW!
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