Ninja Beaver Tai Chi Chart

By Sarah on March 9, 2010

As promised, this bad boy is artwork complete now. All we have to do is source a printer. We haven’t decided whether to try a print on demand service, or get some printed locally and sell them direct through the website. The latter feels like a better option, but we’ll have to see.

Tai Chi Poster

I’ve tried to make sure that the 24 form names are correct by looking at a cross section of other charts, but I have noticed a slight bit of variation.. so have just used the ones that feel ‘right’. Hopefully if anything is catastrophically wrong someone will point it out!

Click the image above for embiggenment and the full version.

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Coming Soon…

By Sarah on February 17, 2010

… to a quality poster shop near your mouse (I hope!)

Ninja beaver Tai Chi

Here’s a WIP snapshot of the upcoming Ninja Beaver Tai Chi chart. Which we’re currently trying to source a good poster shop for. I doubt we’ll sell this through Cafe Press as I want it to end up on good thick stock and be really worth the purchase for people. The chart will come in a clean vector style, and as soon as I manage to get it done – a softer, hand drawn style.

Watch this space!

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In the Spirit of Rich Johnston

By Sarah on February 13, 2010

Seeing as how he hasn’t done a Swipe File for it yet ;)

The last few days have seen something of a twitter-storm, and one that I’ve taken a great deal of interest in as an artist who has concerns about plagiarism myself.

It all kicked off after Neil Gaiman tweeted a link to the site of the UK artist Hidden Eloise, high-lighting the issues she was having with her work being plagiarised and used on products sold for mass market consumption by Paperchase.

Fascinating Paperchase plagiarism over at http://bit.ly/cdrzKZ . Bad Paperchase.

From Neil Gaiman’s Twitter feed

Obviously, having a Twitter user with a profile as high as Neil Gaiman (around one and a half million followers) post about your problems is going to have a major impact, and indeed the proverbial fan has been spraying bird crap as far as a National newspaper and has forced both Paperchase, gathernomoss & finally the designer from who the plagiarised design was originally sourced to come out and make public statements.

Hidden Eloise GathernoMoss

The image on the left is the original © Hidden Eloise, and the image on the right is the design sold by gathernomoss to Paperchase, and subsequently put on a wide range of products and sold by them.

Paperchase’s responses so far have been disingenuous at best, and they have moved from a stance of seemingly insinuating that Hidden Eloise could be lying…..

Mr Melgund said the issue raised serious concerns about the “powers, and there in the danger of Twitter”.

“I am sure it can be beneficial but if you get an untruth (on it) it can be very dangerous,” he said.

….. to one of furiously passing the buck back down to the design studio gathernomoss and the designer herself. Their current response to people emailing to complain about the plagiarised work is to send them the direct email address of the designer who copied the work of Hidden Eloise.

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