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MartinSilvertant In reply to Dramira-Official [2012-09-03 02:57:52 +0000 UTC]

Thank you.

Part of the credit should go to Gerrit Noordzij who designed the typeface Burgundica which I used as reference to do calligraphy which I then used to develop this tattoo design. I actually showed the design to him because he's one of my idols and I thought he could appreciate my work. He told me "The mistakes are original. The rest is plagiarism". What an arrogant twat. It's like he assumed I was trying to copy his typeface and so where I consciously deviated from his work apparently he saw that as mistakes. I showed him the original calligraphy I did which I used to develop this tattoo design so he could see I didn't just copy his work but I never got a response back. What a fuckwad. It did teach me not to idolize people though.

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Dramira-Official In reply to MartinSilvertant [2012-09-03 06:46:00 +0000 UTC]

Well, that was one hell of a reply. Yeah, what a douche. He's either full of himself (like you said and most likely) or paranoid people are ripping him off. Still not right to say that to somebody. I never really had an idol but I can imagine feeling really peeved and disappointed. Hey, better you know he was a douche than to go on idolizing him, right?

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MartinSilvertant In reply to Dramira-Official [2012-09-03 08:56:15 +0000 UTC]

I think he's just arrogant. He's an old guy and one of the master type designers of the Netherlands. He actually taught a man I worked for for a year and who helped me a bit with my typefaces now and then.

And I think "idol" is perhaps too big of a word. I do have many people I consider "heroes" in a way; big inspirations. A lot of type designers, a few graphic designers and a few physicists.

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