Pillow love!

Hello MONDAY!

            Hello to a new week too!

Doing some mix 'n' match this time. Blue Lotus pillow with a 'grey-blue-yellow-red' printed pillow. Both the pillows are available for sale in my Society6 Shop.

Enjoy your festive shopping!

Lotus pillow and other products

Hello!

My newest love is this 'LOTUS' print!

See here for more home products with this pattern...

Something retro, playful, and geo-magical in GREY!

Enjoy !

My design has been copied, AGAIN!!!

Hello Tuesday,


 Today I am writing something different in my blog... Something that most of you designers have already written or are thinking of writing in near future. The topic is nothing new or amazing... Its just as simple as it can be --- '' My design has been copied by a company and is been used without my permission/without my knowledge!!! ''

So, is there anything new in this--- ah, NO!!! YUP, I hear this answer.

Most of you, my fellow designers/artist, have been going through this pain of getting your work copied and used without your permission. I know it hurts. Whether the company that uses it is big or small, but you are genuinely hurt. You are hurt because you are not given any credit of all those hard work, all those super brilliant ideas that had gone wasted just to create that ''simple'' design/artwork that catches other's eyes and are stolen quietly, printed on some beautiful products (as it is or may be sometimes the colours are changed to misguide YOU---THE CREATOR!!! ) 

Haa...haa... funny, isn't it???

And the one common thing you'll notice in all these crime is that the cheaters are designers themselves...!!! Working for some GREAT and REPUTED companies. Getting a good pay cheques for the cheating done properly--- very cleverly!

This is the case with me. My ''LOTUS MOTIF'' that I had posted in this blog sometimes in Aug-2011 has been copied and printed as stationery product, and now it is very gracefully decorating one of the shelves of an Indian company --- INDIA CIRCUS!!!

In my very own country, wow, really!!! Amazed, are you...??? Hmm... me too!
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You would have noticed that I used the word--- AGAIN --- in my blog title. Wondering why I used this word! Hmmm? Simply because this is not the first time that my design has been copied and used by some company... Yes, you guessed right, it had happened to me a few times before too... and may be now I am quite used to it too (smile). I know I am a fabulous designer! No, not kidding, seriously!

OK, OK, jokes apart, how do you feel or what do you do in such a situation...? OK, what I did was to keep mum, yes, I didn't had guts to fight with big companies... I was new in this treacherous industry at that time!

But now I have learned from my experience that ''This is a highly competitive industry, and everyone is ready to cut your throat to get to the TOP!''

I am a designer too... I am a hard-working surface designer, burning my midnight oil to create every single motifs/repeat patterns... And the result ends in getting it been copied and selling elsewhere without my knowledge. Why? Am I cheating on any other fellow designer? Am I copying your work to get that topmost position in this creative market?  No, I am not doing anything like this.

Why do people don't understand that without true knowledge, without creativity inside you, how many times will you cheat others and get the credit??? Don't you feel any guilt when the companies praise you for your super brilliant ideas and designs that are not originally your own??? Do you ever get the peace within when you know deep inside your heart that you are not a designer--- YOU ARE A CHEATER!!!

I am a designer and have written very clearly in GOOD ENGLISH too that I do commissioned work and give my designs for licensing too!!! So, why don't these cheaters read these lines when they come to my blog searching for some ''so-called inspiring designs and ideas'', and who all the time end in coping my design--- taking all the credit and leaving me feel hurt and lost! LOOSERS--- that's what we are, isn't it..???
Its simply because we are the people who always stay behind the scene. Because we are the people with small websites and no big and famous brands are behind our backs to support our talents--- our Creativity. We do commissioned works, meet deadlines, get cheated, rejected... but we never complain! NEVER!

I know I sound harsh today... very harsh, but this is the only way I can release my failures, my anger!

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Do you think I am wrong? 

If you want to share your experience with the readers about how you felt when something similar happened to you, you are absolutely free to write it down in the comment area. And, if you want to be anonymous because of any fear then you can mail me about your thoughts and views... I will be glad to read it! 

Thank you for your patience for reading this long post....

Have a lovely week ahead, see you all soon next week!

colour of the week--- yellow !

                                                   --INDIAN LOTUS--

Hello,


           I thought of choosing my own colors of the week. In this way I'll be seriously doing some creative work !

So, this week I choose our own pretty color 'YELLOW'. It can be in any mood--- the sunshine yellow, mustard yellow, lemon yellow,  yummy 'custard' yellow, golden yellow..... but it will be just a yellow ! Excited ...? Yes, me too !


Have a lovely time ....

vintage --- revisited

 
        Hi,

                   

              This Monsoon , decorate your homes with bright and beautiful pink lotuses that dates back to 1970 , the time when I wasn't even thought of in this world ...!!!

        Once again , I bring before you another motif from my mom's collection ...

  

        This is a patchwork design , done in checks , dotted , or simply solid coloured clothes . Starting with an outline stitch on the traced pattern and then leaving the seams ( for folding inside ) , cut the extra cloth , then patch it on the main cloth , at the desired ( and already planned and marked places ) , in buttonhole / carpet stitches ... Well , this was ( and is ) the way beautiful patchworks were made then , and are made today , too ...

        This can be done on cushions ...

            Patch it , embroider it , stencil it or paint it on fabrics or on any other surface ...

          Rotate the design as desired --- diamond , square , inside out ... ( whatever suits your eyes )

         Repeats are beautiful too ...Stencil it , repeating it to give an over-all print look ...

          The above aqua coloured print will give any wall a new and fresh look ...

          

              Heavenly white with pinks .... a print for fashion fabrics and for paper ...

                                       

          And last is an all-over lotus pattern with some swirls ...

                               Have a nice time with these fresh lotus patterns .

            Stay tuned to see what next week has in store for you all . More of vintage collection --- revisited and remixed --- to give a contemporary look . I'll try to dig out more patterns and motifs from my mom or from my grand-mom's '' SUPER - TREASURE -  TRUNK '' ...

                                         

                                   

old sketches.....

           Hello,


                           Today I thought of sharing some of my old sketches, in the form of old memories !!!


         I love to go back, time and again, in search of my long-forgotten ideas. I keep all my  ideas in the form of rough sketches when I'm in a hurry... And  later on I develop these in icons/motifs and patterns to be used as repeats on textiles, wallpaper, cushions, invitation cards, etc !


          But there are still left in my sketch collection which I haven't started yet.

           Some of these designs have ended as an embroidery on my own outfits ! Yes, I do love to sew my clothes... and love to decorate with my own designs too ! Nothing surprising in this, isn't it ? Why not try to experiment some of the designs first on my own fabric and see the effect it gives, before sending it out to the world !


Some of them are for sale in my Society 6 store, and some are in my Spoonflower fabric store... And a few were done for Tigerprint design contests, and a few are still waiting to be used somewhere !

           Ahaa... quite a lot are these for today's showcase !


Have a lovely week, happy designing !


These are all my original works and ideas, so I request you all to enjoy your visit here, but please do not copy or use any of my designs for commercial purposes. If you want any of my motifs/ patterns, then please contact me here nanditark17@gmail.com through mailing me... I'll love that, and it takes only a minute or two...!

Society6 products.....

          Hello Monday !


                Hi dear, how are you all...? I'm rather excited and nervous today. Its simply because I've joined Module 3 of  'The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design'  e-course, by Rachael Taylor & Beth Kempton...

             Now, in between, I'll be posting some of my 'homeworks' from this lovely and motivating e-course.

Hee..hee... as you can see I'm already feeling like a small kindergarten student...!
OK dear, I forgot to tell you that the above images are from my Society6 store. You can enjoy your shopping in a more stylish way with these tote bags, and you can gift these cute bags to your shopaholic friends/kids/relatives too...!

   See you all, (almost daily), with new assignments and new progress...

stationery cards.....

                 Hello,


                               My stationery cards on http://society6.com/nanditarksingh...

                    Hope you like my products !!!


                 Have a lovely day ...

Indian lotus.....

           Hello,


                   Today's post is about lotus... a beautiful flower !

          see you soon !

 These are all my original works and ideas, so I request you all to enjoy your visit here, but please do not copy or use any of my designs for commercial purposes. If you want any of my motifs/ patterns, then please contact me here nanditark17@gmail.com through mailing me... I'll love that, and it takes only a minute or two...!

my Society6.....

      Hi,


                 Today I thought to display some of my Society6 products here...
with the patterns I used on the products, bright Indian motifs...

           tote bags with bright Indian motifs,

               stationery cards...

           T-shirts in floral pattern

            hoody

                          Link to my store is here   http://society6.com/nanditarksingh


         see you soon...

stationery and more .....

       Hello ,


                This week I bring custom made notebook  and letter pad pages ...

                      Indian designs and Indian flavours ...!

    Have a happy week ahead ... see you next week !!!

flowers .....

                 hi ,

                         This week is a flower -special week ...........

                                                                          enjoy ,

                 .............lotus love ,

                .........have a nice and lovely festive week .........


                     see you next week...