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- gramme0
"Gramme: I'd like to see this thread resolved and die just as much as the next guy, but I must ask you this: How did you go about this 'issue' when you decided to throw an Apple Cinema Display on your website?"
When I designed the current site in 2009, I bought an image of a monitor from LiveSurface. That image is still for sale at their site, so I think it's safe to say there's nothing illegal about it. I decided against using that image again, because (1) it's an outdated monitor, and (2) it takes up too much space and detracts from the actual website design.
For web work on my new site, I've decided to do something similar to Lundgren+Lundqvist and just use a simplified browser bar. For the iPad app I designed this year, I'm using renderings from Teehan Lax. I know Apple owns the industrial design, but they don't own those images. And, as others here have pointed out, I really doubt that Apple cares one whit about people comping apps onto iPads for their portfolios. It might be different if I was using iPad images to sell something, or modifying the industrial design in some way, but I'm not.
- akrok0
oh, i bet cause you want apple products. some goes nuts cause of that. (samsung fuckers!)
- doesnotexist0
who cares
- monospaced0
for reals yo?
- ?gramme
- just didn't expect this kind of thread from anyone here. carry on, happy new year Mmonospaced
- Hey B, same to you. Yeah things got out of hand here.gramme
- omg0
Damn, all this time spent talking about the issue, you could have went out, bought yourself a monitor and shot it yourself.
- dyspl0
No one cares.... not even Apple.
If it was only about showing UI to your audience, there are plenty of tablets smartphones nowdays, not only Apple.....
The only issue if there was one to be is that as many other designers (myself included) you put apple device all over your portfolio and you advertise their devices and keep maintaining the idea that Apple are the only designs to go. We are just monkeys advertising for free...
- dummies0
Of course to use an iImage image on your site as a display frame infringes on Apple, but more importantly is a cheap ploy to use the Apple name to make yourself look good.
But i digress.
Can you recommend a large leather bound bible for me? I'm thinking of making a gun case out of it.
- gramme0
Seriously?
1. I respect other people's rights, hence my question. I don't mind paying for a stock image, if such a thing is available. I just don't have time to shoot an image or hire a photographer.
2. Skinning a website or an app onto a monitor or iPad provides useful context. That's it, and that's all. For a company that designs for print as well as screen, this is helpful. I don't need Apple products to make myself or my work look good.
3. By your argument, nearly every design firm and agency in the world would be guilty of copyright infringement. From what I've seen, it looks like people are using stock images or renderings. Most firms I've seen are not actually shooting their own pictures of a monitor or iPad.But thanks for the snide remarks, it's very helpful.
- Daithi0
These might be free from the trademark issues:
http://caicardenas.bigcartel.com…and this is a good example of how to do it without the images:
http://emilolsson.com/- ...and http://www.freebiepi…Daithi
- I've seen/admire Olsson's work. But everything else on my site is photographic.gramme
- A vector iPad or monitor would look incredibly odd among the hundreds of photographs I've very nearly finished prepping.gramme
- doesnotexist0
imo sites that use a full computer to show a website aren't nearly as successful in showing said work as sites that show a website in a browser. plus if it's just web work, the work is tiny because the computer's there too.
and you can do it a little differently like syrup:
http://www.syrupnyc.com/work/spe…or use it when you're showing new media work across platforms like they do — iphone next to computer &c.
anways...just take apples hi-res images and 'shop the logo out if you're concerned about EULA.
- gramme0
I'm not avoiding your point at all. It's a very weak point, but I'll bite. I'm not looking to use an Apple product in a way that infringes on their intellectual property. I've merely designed some things for use on their devices and need some context when showing the work.
I really don't think other firms who show their work on an Apple monitor or iPad are violating Apple's copyrights. If an industrial design firm were passing an Apple product off as their own, then that would indeed be infringement. But we're not talking about doing anything of the sort.
- ideaist0
Go vector and switch it up a bit homey; customize for the look & feel of your site:
; )
- Now, see? This is helpful. The sarcasm in this case might be deserved. ;)gramme
- What's the difference between this and a press image? Still an Apple product.MarleyMarl
- MarleyMarl0
You're making a mountain out of a mole hole. Do you think Apple gives a shit about you using their image in a mock-up?
- utopian0
If anything by using Apple related photographs of their: laptops, iphones, ipads, etc... in our portfolios we are helping perpetuate and expanding their brand. Apple should be at least thanking us if not paying us for all of the free advertisement and product placement.
- BattleAxe0
a psd of ipad
http://www.pixeden.com/psd-mock-…
- dummies0
Weak? More like solid. Simply put, to use the Apple mark & images w/o permission is an infringement. Anything past that point that is subjective justification. IE lying to yourself.
- gramme0
Dude, give it a rest. I had no intention of showing Apple's logo (In any event, I would've photoshopped it out), and if Apple isn't cool with people using their press photos for self promo purposes, then fine. This is why I asked if anyone had a different source for images of Apple products, and several people offered useful suggestions.
Move along.