Copy Right Issues

Copy right Issues for Fonts
Fonts can be found and used from a variety of internet sites. Some are free other require you to pay for a licence. In a job a licence is always required by law. You pay for the use of that font lending you the copyright for that font for that one job. Repeated use requires repeat payments.

Identifont- Indentifont is a font website that allows you to search through fonts by appearance, name, similarity, picture, designer and publisher. This site supplies free fonts but also fonts that you can buy but it refers to another site to do so.


Font Shop - Has over 150,000 fonts in every style and category. You can search the fonts through type, style or structure of the font you desire. 


Font Font - FontShop International and its FontFont label was founded by Neville Brody and Erik Spiekermann in 1990 in Berlin and is now one of the largest manufacturers of digital typefaces in the world. The world’s largest library of original contemporary typefaces. There are about 743 font families.


Terms & Conditions - 
Identifont website has a link dedicated to Terms of use which is the same for most font sites. There is conditions on personal use, privacy policy, copyright, links and disclaimers. Their copyright statement for the fonts and typefaces on the website states  that the components of the Web site, including the text and graphics, are copyright materials and may not be copied or used for any other purpose without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Typeface names featured on this Web site are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.


Copy Right Issues for Images
Images off the internet are copyrighted unless purchased. Using images in work found on the internet and websites such as Google are illegal because you don't not have permission from the owner to use his/her work. You can how ever purchase images from off certain websites. 'stock images'.


iStock - iStockphoto is a website source for royalty-free stock images, media and design elements. All iStock files are royalty-free which means you only have to pay once to use the file multiple times as long as its used within the terms of the license agreement will not infringe on any copyright, moral right, trademark or other intellectual property right, or violate any right of privacy or publicity.


Shutter Stock - Shutterstock is one of the largest subscription-based stock photo agency. Consists of 18,999,510 royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, and vectors.


Sourced Stock Images


Image 1

Lighting Bolt- Could be used within the logo or to support the logo in the background or behind the text or shield.














http://www.shutterstock.com/


Image 2

Shield - Used in the logo with 'T' on top.Help create depth or a 3D effect.














http://www.shutterstock.com/


Image 3

Football & Hands- Used in advertisement for the team or recruitment. Logo in between the arms up the top or one of the bottom corners.















http://www.istockphoto.com/

Developed Thumbnails

Culture In Design

Indigo Talking Stick- Happiness for Daily Life by Sali Sasaki

http://www.indigodesignnetwork.org/?p=4653&cpage=1#comment-424

Its inspiring to see designers and artist out in the world that still inspire so many. Creating the dull into a vibrant and interesting environment that can be enjoyed by all. The colour scheme really helps send the message of happiness and would love to see more of these cafes around in other cities/countries. 
It is also interesting to see so many different professions working together with the community :)

Aboriginal Motifs

Functions and Philosophies


Principles and Protocols:


1. Respect: "The rights of Indigenous people to own and control their heritage, including Indigenous images, designs, stories and other cultural expressions, should be respected."
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/32368/Visual_arts_protocol_guide.pdf

When organising an event, exhibition or festival of local, state or national significant it is respectful to invite representatives of the traditional owners of that land to attend and give a welcome address. It is also respectful of other official speakers/attendees to acknowledge the land and its traditional owners. This would refer to any use of motifs, symbols and methods from or relating to the Indigenous Australians culture. References to their dream time, elders or their land (i.e Uluru) needs to be treated with utmost respect.

2. Recognition and protection
The Indigenous Australians visual artists own copyright in his or her artwork. This means that he or she can control the reproduction and termination of the artwork. Such rights apply to all artists and are granted under the national copyright law. This protects any interpretation or alterations to traditional or recent indigenous artwork. Respect also goes hand in hand with understanding boundaries and rights.

Moral Rights and Issues

The Moral Rights Amendments to the Copyright Act was introduced in December 2000. It provided some new ways to challenge any inappropriate treatment of Indigenous artworks. 

The new law provides the following rights to artists; The right to be attributed as the artist (Artist can require their names to be clearly and prominently produced alongside with all and any reproductions of the artists work), the right not to have work falsely attributed to another artist (Artist can take action against parties who falsely attribute others as the artists of their work), the right of integrity (Artist can take action against parties who subject their works to inappropriate treatment i.e anything the results to material distortion, destruction of the work, public harm to the artist reputation, reproducing in poor quality. The artist always has moral rights to his or hers artwork.

Bibliography:
http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/32368/Visual_arts_protocol_guide.pdf

Native American Motifs

SPOKANE INDIANS

Minor League Baseball

Spokane, Washington, United States.

FORMER LOGO – CURRENT LOGO – SECONDARY LOGO

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Spokane_Indians_former.PNG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/SpokaneIndiansLogo.PNG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Spokane_Indians%2C_Amerindian.PNG

The Spokane Indians former logo was re-designed in 2006. They're intention was to avoid using traditional native american/indian imagery. The new and current logo is supported by the Spokane Nation and respectfully portray certain Native American elements that have been given permission by the Spokane Nation to use. They honour this privilege with making a secondary logo in the Spokane traditional language, Salish.

The current logo design follows the shape of a baseball- circle. Its circular shape makes the logo unified and stable/fixed in position. Your eye is drawn directly to the centre of the logo with large 'S' then follow the edges around to read the words. The direction is helped by the position and orientation of the feathers.

The feathers are in relation to the native americans culture. Feathers relate to nature and they would use them in ceremonies, rituals and to differentiate from other tribes and ranks/leadership. To the Spokane Nation the eagle feather is a most revered symbol. 
The circle too can be related to Native Americans the sun, moon and earth. Circle is a very universal symbol and relates to alt of spiritual connections.

The logo colours are red, navy blue, light blue and beige. These are all colours of or based off the primary colours. And the beige and the blue contrast slightly but not too garish which gives the red the chance to be the dominant colour in the logo.
The team is believed to be the first professional sports team to work in conjunction with a local Native American Nation/Tribe to create a sports identity.


I believe the current logo has down a successful job in keeping a respectful and cultured logo but also aesthetically pleasing. Its unified and strong. Can be used on various applications (uniforms, labels etc). It also still portrays its main reason which is a baseball team and that is evident with the use of the baseball within the logo.

Bibliography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane_Indians

http://www.whats-your-sign.com/circle-symbol-meaning.html
http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?S=6415306

Greek Sport Logo Thumbnails (Titans)

Movie: Clash of the Titans Questions

Who are the titans? 

There were a lot of Titans. There were 12 original Titans, out of the twelve their daughters and sons some became the second generation of Titans but were better know as the Gods of Olympus. In the movie, 'Clash of the Titans (2010)', the Titans reference applies to the Gods of Olympus. There 12 main Gods, Zeus – leader of the gods, Hera – wife of Zeus and Goddess of all Goddesses, Poseidon – God of the Sea, Dionysus – God of Wine, Apollo – God of Light, Artemis – Virgin Goddess, Hermes – messenger of the Gods, Athena – Goddess of Wisdom, Aphrodite – Goddess of Love, Demeter – Goddess of Fertility and Hephaestus – Blacksmith of the Gods.

How are there any interesting motifs you see frequently? (eg. lightning bolt)

How do they interpret their meaning? Can you do a modern version?

There a numerous motifs appear through out the movie. One is the symbols relating back to ancient greek - the pillars, greek keys and the fashion. There is a lot of focus on the colours and classes. The Gods are shiny white and silver- representing holiness and purity. The upper class of man (humans/mortals) is over the top gold – representing wealth, superiority and luxury. The lower class of man is dull greys, neutrals and off whites – representing average, dull and sadness. However the use of white in the lower class can be read as a connection to the gods – therefore the lower class worships and respect the gods more than the upper class does (which in the movie is perceived true). This is still relevant in modern times as high upper class/superiority is white with appearance, style, luxury and with their belonging i.e apple products are generally white. Also gold still represents wealth and class especially in jewellery. And as for greys and neutrals, our basic/standards items and products appear in the grey/off white colour schemes.

Another motif used frequently in the movie is Zeus's eagle. Zeus constantly transforms into an eagle and it is true that Zeus is connected to an eagle. This can be related to modern day with eagle being noble and proud. Especially relevant to the American culture being the national animal and emblem. 

The Greek helmet is apart of the Greek amour attire, it appears a lot with the soldiers representing the kings army and used to show rank. The Greek helmet is replicated in modern times for sport, war, duty and combat.

Also apart of the armour attire is a three headed dragon symbol on the soldiers shield. This can be interpreted to the symbol/representation of Hydra – a serpent like dragon with multiple heads and the difficulty of with each head cut off, two would take its place. It was slain by Hercules. Dragons have been used on armour, ships and weapons as an ultimate creature that was near difficult to defeat and would strike fear in its opponents. Representing strength and immortality.

The are many motifs relating to specific gods; Zeus and his lighting bolt which appears from the heaven to strike down and either cause destruction or give power to objects/beholders. The mechanical owl appears near the start which in legend is a replica of Athena's owl which guides Perseus to the three witches, which in todays times owls are still perceived as wise creatures. The three witches themselves used as fortune tellers also appears in Shakespeare's production Macbeth.

Is your character in the movie? 

YES! Well technically. The original Titans are mentioned in the place where they were defeated by the Gods of Olympus- the second generation of the Titans and God's themselves are technically Titans.

Is the film interpretation accurate?

Yes how ever there are different legends on the Clash of the Titans and the Titans themselves.

Is there a constellation of starts named after your greek character?

The is a Titan responsible for the starts and the sky – Astraeus a Titan of the stars and planets and the art of astrology. There are few constellations relating to the titans; Aquila is a constellation of an eagle – related to Zeus's eagle. Capricorn is a constellation of a goat – who represents a god that had goatish features that assisted Zeus in the war against the Titans. Centaurus (Sagittarius) a constellation of a centaur with bow and arrow – the wisest of the Centaurs and son of the Titan Cronus.

How is medusa killed?

In the 'Clash of the Titans (2010)', Perseus cuts her head off in order to defeat the Craken with her stone death stare.

Bibliography

Watching the movie 'Clash of the Titans (2010)'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Olympians

http://www.medievalcollectibles.com/s-6-greek.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra

http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanAstraios.html

http://www.theoi.com/Cat_Astraioi.html