Celebrate Authentic Australian Design: Workshopped12 Exhibition
This year’s Workshopped exhibition – the 12th from the talented team – is themed ‘Local Design, Global Market: Be an international designer‘. The event will showcase over 60 designers from around Australian plus guests from New Zealand and the USA. Workshopped Director, Raymond Scott said, “We were overwhelmed with applications for this year’s exhibition – ...
Emeco sues Restoration Warehouse for stealing Navy Chair® Design
The Emeco Navy Chair® vs The Restoration Hardware ‘Naval Chair’. Emeco, the genuine handcraft company based in Hanover, Pennsylvania, today sued home furnishing giant Restoration Hardware and its former CEO and present “Creator and Curator” Gary Friedman, asserting claims for trade dress and trademark counterfeiting and infringement. What Restoration Hardware is trying to do is ...
Cobonpue Counters Counterfeits…
Arguably one of Asia’s biggest names in International design, Kenneth Cobonpue has hewn for himself a career that marries the best of Eastern manufacturing techniques and aesthetics with contemporary collections that are as relevant and practical in Western applications. Trained in the US and Europe, the now Cebu based designer continues to spearhead the contemporary ...
Pirates of Beijing…
Looking for fakes? ”Back in 5″ – Thats the word on the street where counterfeit material is most common in Beijing last week. In areas where procurement of pirated DVDs and access to designer clothing rip-offs is most prevalent, a peculiar blackout on dodgy trade had descended, leaving locals and visitors on the hunt for ...
Inve$ting in Value…
The breadth of argument against the replication of original design commonly includes: quality, craftsmanship, ethical manufacturing and commitment to environmental practice, but perhaps one of the strongest cards the anti-counterfeit campaigners have in appealing to the ambivalent consumer is that of the embodied value in an original design piece. Where the term “value” is used ...
Dwelling on Design Knockoffs…
We applaud the team at dwell.com who have dedicated much of their recent content to raising awareness about counterfeit design. Deputy Editor Jaime Gillin has penned numerous pieces in recent months addressing the “real cost” of replicas, as well as publishing the opinions on this issue put forward by design industry luminaries. From the evils ...
Lights! Camera! Take Action!
Piracy plays a very real and very damaging role on every level of the film, television and entertainment industries. Much like the ongoing battle the broader arts and creative community are waging to protect their work, our friends in the local and International film and television industry are very much feeling the impact of copying ...
France Fights the Fakes…
The French luxury brands industry association, Comité Colbert, are taking their battle against counterfeit goods, to the streets. With the expansion of the luxury goods industry and a global boom in online retail being blamed; the likes of Chanel, Hermes and YSL are banding together in a new advertising campaign aimed at educating consumers to ...
UK Stepping Closer To Copyright Clarity…
Our friends at ACID UK (Anti Copying In Design) have shared with us some very exciting news this week. The Government has announced an increase in the scope of protection for Classic designs. Under the new measures, certain ‘artistic’ designs of manufactured goods (for example certain furniture, lamps and jewellery) created prior to 1987 may ...
Re-Released, Re-Issued, Re-Launched : REAL…
Though the doors really only swung shut on the party 48 hours ago, much has already been written of this years Milan Furniture Fair. What is always intriguing about the reports and reviews that trickle out (seemingly quicker and quicker every year) is the disparity and variation between what were deemed to be the trends ...
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