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Deconstruction of electronics / devices that talk to each other /hardware and software merge.

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While the fashion industry ratchets up their efforts to legally be able to stop design copycats, the long tradition of large retailers selling knock-offs of work by individual designers or small shops still marches on. The St. Paul Business Journal reports that designer Heidi Panelli has taken Kohl’s to court over a t-shirt design now sold by the retailer that she claims is far too close to one she had been selling on her site for years. Seeing the two side-by-side, it’s hard not to agree with her, as just a handful of very slight changes are the only thing that make the shirts distinguishable from one another. While it’s easy to vilify the retailer in these instances, it seems as though these cases are more often a matter of poor due diligence on behalf of their buyers for not having discovered that one of the brands they order from was pushing a potential knock-off. Panelli, who stumbled across the copy of her design while shopping, is asking that Kohl’s remove all the shirts copying her work and pay damages it may have cost her business.

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Deconstruction of electronics / devices that talk to each other /hardware and software merge.

Hand-Inked on 220g/m2 Fabriano paper
330 x 240 mm.
Price: 280 USD
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Deconstruction of electronics / devices that talk to each other /hardware and software merge.

Hand-Inked on 220g/m2 Fabriano paper
330 x 240 mm.
Price: 280 USD
E-mail me for more info and shipping options.

We’ve posted our fair share about the trials and tribulations of the seemingly always rocky creation of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards development, from the early protests to Frank Gehry‘s removal to the disregard for public design reviews and the lawsuits that have nearly shut it all down at times. But as often as we’ve written about the project, we can’t hold a candle to Norman Oder, the man behind the Atlantic Yards Report, a blog that, since 2006, has laboriously chronicled all the many ups and downs the development has been through. Thanks to a tip from a reader, we were passed along the news that Oder has decided to quit his job as news editor of the Library Journal to concentrate on turning his blog about the Yards into a book. Though he doesn’t yet have a publishing deal for it, he’s striking out on his own in order to tell the story of this storied development. Here’s a bit from the Observer‘s conversation with Oder:

“I think the story needs to be told,” Mr. Oder said in his demure way. “It’s been told in dribs and drabs. It will be mythologized, and it will be spun, and parts of the story will get lost. The story needs to to be synthesized and made sense of. And made compelling.”

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