COMD4900 Internship: Ethics in Graphic Design 2A

Image by Antoni Shkraba

When it comes to crediting the work that you use from someone else it is important to credit the person. It’s unethical for a professional to do a project of their own and even if you got inspiration from a person’s work you still have to give credit to the person because you are incorporating elements of that piece into your work. As a designer and illustrator I had done and work on pieces in which a lot of them i had source of inspiration. I had followed illustrators and their work in which I love their art style and the pieces they make like one time i was scrolling through instagram and i saw this illustration with a beautiful concept and I wanted to recreate the piece with my own style and posted in my page and give credit to the artist and she loved it . Also, creating a poster which involved photography, whenever I get to use a photo from a website giving credit to the person.

It’s very important and ethical to do and websites like Pexels and Unsplash to get stock images that are free to use by everyone. According to the AIGA article about photography, “Use of stock images avoids the many contractual issues that may arise when photography is done on assignment”. This demonstrates that when doing a project where you need to use photography there are many websites that offers free stock images which are taken by professionals and you have the right to use them and avoid any trouble you can get into by using a random photograph in the internet that is not in stock  and evades a problem on getting sue for stealing an photo.

Links:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_oZ8_xNgcicLMkGZCsMAbpyOFWTlEvBK/view?usp=sharing

https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-woman-writing-on-tablet-computer-while-using-laptop-4348401/