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History and Analysis of Design

Week 1: Assignment 2 Discussion

Assignment 2: Journal Assignment

Deadline and Deliverable

By Tuesday, January 20, 2015, read the two questions given in this assignment and submit your responses in a single post to the Discussion Area. Do not post your answers as an attachment.

Steps to Success
Review the content of the lectures and reading assignment.
Write a response to each question using direct quotes from the lectures, textbook reading, or other sources to validate your answers.
Cite your sources using MLA style. (For information on how to properly use direct quotes and cite sources according to MLA style, go tohttps://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/. Additional help on using MLA style and writing essays is available in the Student Portal underAcademics → Tutoring Center.)
Participate in class as described in the Review and Critique section.

My Work: 

Being a book cover artist, I have a lot of font use involved and therefore I have to make sure that my fonts are legal and that they are able to be used either for free or to purchase a license for a commercial license to use the font. The site I use most often is dafonts.com. I find that the fonts there are very precise in the terms and that you can get a hold of the creator if you need to purchase a commercial license. According to the information given by dafont.com,
“The fonts presented on this website are their authors' property, and are either freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain. The licence mentioned above the download button is just an indication. Please look at the readme-files in the archives or check the indicated author's website for details, and contact him if in doubt.
If no author/licence is indicated that's because we don't have information, that doesn't mean it's free.” The general breakdown of this statement is that there are buttons on this site that allow you to download the .zip file of the font to install to your computer. However, above the download button, you will see the status of the licensing of each font to dafont’s best abilities. Any font created before 2005, if they don’t have access to the creator, has limited information for the licensing available for each font. The best way to go about using fonts from this site is to read the extra “read me” file that comes with each font, or to do some quick general research to make sure the font is indeed free, and if not, who to contact for an extended license.

For images, I normally purchase directly from the photographer, however in cases where using a stock image is permitted, I normally use Fotolia LLC. You can purchase a subscription from their site allowing you to purchase stock images for personal or educational uses, and if you need to use the images commercially, you can purchase extended licenses for each photo as needed. Part of the extended license agreement states;
“Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Fotolia hereby grants to the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, non-transferable sublicense to use, reproduce, modify or display the Work an unlimited number of times in the authorized media solely for (a) personal or educational purposes and (b) in connection with the operation of a business, and in the case of each of (a) and (b), with the right to sell or distribute for sale the Work or any reproductions or modifications thereof, if incorporated or together with or onto any item of merchandise or other work of authorship, in any media or format now or hereafter known. The Non-Exclusive Downloading Member shall have no right to grant further sublicenses. The Non-Exclusive Downloading Member shall have the right to transfer files containing the Work or permitted derivative works to employees, or have the Work reproduced by subcontractors, provided that such employees and subcontractors agree to abide by the restrictions of this agreement. In the normal course of workflow, the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member may also convey to a third party (such as a printer) temporary copies of the Work that are integral to the work product and without which the work product could not be completed. Third parties, employees and subcontractors shall have no further or additional rights to use the Work and cannot access or extract it from any other file provided. The Non-Exclusive Downloading Member may create a digital library, network configuration or similar arrangement to allow the Work to be viewed by their employees, partners and clients. The Non-Exclusive Downloading Member shall pay to Fotolia a sublicense fee in accordance with Fotolia’s Standard pricing and payment policies; provided however that such fee (or a portion thereof) may be required to be paid by the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member to Fotolia’s subsidiary, Fotolia Netherlands Cooperatief U.A., depending on the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member’s country of residence or on other similar parameters to be determined by Fotolia. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, with respect to electronic formats, the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member's reproduction, distribution or display of the Work : (i) shall be limited to a resolution of 2,000 x 2,000 pixels in website uses (regardless of the resolution of the Work available for downloading from the Fotolia.com website); and (ii) shall be limited to the resolution available for downloading from the Fotolia.com website in other electronic uses. For clarification purposes but subject to the foregoing restrictions, it is intended that this sublicense shall permit use, reproduction and display of the Work in or for a business or commercial setting or circumstances, display in an office or other place of business, on advertising and promotion materials, and the like.

For clarification purposes but subject to the foregoing restrictions, it is intended that this sublicense shall permit use, reproduce, distribute or display the Work in connection with design template applications intended for resale and use, reproduce, distribute or display the Work in connection with any goods or services intended for resale or distribution, including, without limitation, mugs, t-shirts, posters, greeting cards, posters or other merchandise, and any of the foregoing in "print on demand" or tangible or electronic formats, as applicable; use, reproduce, distribute or display the Work in connection with a PR campaign aimed at the promotion of goods or services to the medias. Furthermore, if the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member is incorporating a Work into a promotional press release that is being released to the media, then the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member may distribute the stand-alone image file of such Work to the media in connection therewith, under the condition that the media may only publish such Work in connection with the publishing of such press release, and that the Work shall not be used or disseminated by the media in any other manner.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement (including, without limitation, the restriction in subsection 3(a) below), the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member may utilize all the rights under this Agreement for itself, and additionally, on behalf of one (1) of its clients. As such, the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member may sublicense its rights and obligations hereunder to one (1) such client, and such client shall have all the rights, restrictions and obligations under this Agreement, but without the right to further sublicense these rights to additional parties. If the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member desires to use the Work on behalf of more than one (1) client, then the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member will have to download and pay for additional license(s) to the same Work.

Notwithstanding the above, if a Work is in violation of Fotolia’s Terms and Conditions of Use, Fotolia reserves the right to instruct the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member to cease all use, distribution and possession of such Work, and the Non-Exclusive Downloading Member must promptly comply with such instructions.”

One form of visual communication used in the early years is the cave paintings at Lascaux, France. According to our lecture for this week, it states
“There have been no definitive conclusions about what is being communicated. It is clear, however, that there was a desire to communicate, and record some of the experiences of the people who created them.”

Now while most people aren’t going around drawing on walls to get these memories, this is a lot like a tattoo, pr photography. We use tattoos to record experiences, or moments in our lives that we want to remember and be able to share with others. The same can be said for photography as well. I know that I take pictures with my iPhone on a daily basis. I can’t go a single day without finding something to photograph whether it be with my phone, or my camera, I’m always catching a good shot to share with family and friends on social networking sites and in print.


Works Cited:

"DaFont.com." Dafont.com. Web. 3 Dec. 2014. <http://www.dafont.com/>.

"Extended License." Extended License. 1 Jan. 2005. Web. 4 Dec. 2014. <http://us.fotolia.com/Info/Agreements/ExtendedLicense>.

"PETROGLYPHS.US." Petroglyphs, Pictographs and Rock Art. Web. 9 Dec. 2014. <http://www.petroglyphs.us/>.

"Royalty Free Images, Photos, Vectors and Videos on Fotolia." Royalty Free Images, Photos, Vectors and Videos on Fotolia. Fotolia LLC, 1 Jan. 2005. Web. 4 Dec. 2014. <http://us.fotolia.com/>.