Dinnerware for the Hardcore Brooklynite
Fishs Eddy, the china and glassware company, has introduced a 12-inch-square serving platter –the result of a competition the company sponsored last Spring at Pratt Institute. The winning design, by Jordan Awan, a 21-year-old junior, has a Brooklyn landscape, including its best known bridge. The platter, the first piece in a line of heavy restaurant-style…
Fishs Eddy, the china and glassware company, has introduced a 12-inch-square serving platter –the result of a competition the company sponsored last Spring at Pratt Institute. The winning design, by Jordan Awan, a 21-year-old junior, has a Brooklyn landscape, including its best known bridge. The platter, the first piece in a line of heavy restaurant-style china that will be made with Mr. Awan’s design, is $28. Information: (877) 347-4733.
House and Garden Currents [NY Times]
Fishs Eddy has made over 450,000 dollars a year ( profit) from the 212 patterns according to The Times story a few years back I remember seeing in the metro section.
where do you get this million dollar figure?
Just because certain companies make that common practice doesn’t mean it’s right. Who do you think makes the world work that way? We’re just supposed to accept it because that’s “how the world works”? You’re making the world work that way by thinking it’s acceptable.
Yes, I worked in a company with a profit sharing program. And when I do work for hire, I try to make sure I’m compensated in a fair way. That’s how I see the world working. It’s not always ideal, and I’ve been reamed a few times but it doesn’t mean I have to resign myself into thinking that is how the world works.
There are still companies that are fair out there. Hope they don’t realize they don’t have to be because some people think that the world is unfair and artists should just suck it.
I don’t get the fuss. If the company actually hired this student to do the work, he would have probably been paid the same — or less — and not gotten to share in profit.
Do you all work in companies with profit sharing programs? Sheesh. Work for hire. This is how the world works.
I wrote articles for a magazine for no money. That was my internship. Not exactly getting coffee. That internship got me clips, those clips got me my first job.
Sure, they sold those magazines for a profit. I was happy to see them sell as many as possible
Just Us & Paul, not debating whether or not the deal was fair or not. Everyone has their own idea of what they think is fair. Contests are voluntary. You either think the agreement is fair, sign it and enter or you think its unfair and walk away. Am I wrong by looking at this too simplisticly? Personally, I would not enter into such an agreement if Fishs Eddy business practices are as bad as claimed.
Does anyone have a copy of the entry form for the design contest? With the way some contests are run, you might give up rights to the artwork once you’ve entered the contest. Same way those ‘funniest video shows’ work.
umm…yeah, anonymous, please analy rape me at your leisure fish’s eddy, too, while you’re at it.
the fact is that it’s hard getting your name known in new york, especially as an illustrator. but just because you love what you do as an artist, and you get a little piece in the times doesn’t mean that you should let people take advantage of you. make no mistake, the piece in the times is promoting the sale of those dishes, not you.
there is a huge difference between an internship where you are getting coffee for people and making photocopies and selling a design on which a company will make a substantial profit. the company assumes some risk in production, but in the end, the plates are selling because of that design.
If they used my design and then got it into the Times, etc, I would be happy with no money at all.
What’s next? Are you anti-internships too?