Anti-Copying in Design and Make it in Design partner to help artists and designers protect their rights.
Online design school Make it in Design is delighted to announce a new strategic partnership with ACID (Anti Copying in Design), the UK’s leading membership and campaigning organisation for design and intellectual property, in order to help artists and designers to protect their rights.
Together our two organisations, which have supported more than 30,000 designers over the past decade, are uniting in our commitment to helping creatives understand and protect their design rights. At a time
when we know that AI for many artists and designers, is becoming a real threat, it’s more important than ever that pioneering organisations like ACID and Make it in Design work together to best support our community in a rapidly evolving landscape. Together we can better understand the emerging challenges and threats, as well as identify areas of potential opportunity. Partnership working and advocacy have never been more vital.
Together we will bring our experience from a combined 35+ years working in the creative industries to deliver:
Make It in Design Co-founder and course instructor Rachael Taylor is an official member of the official ACID Design Sector Council. Lead by CEO Dids Macdonald OBE and her team, ACID have shown incredible support throughout Rachael’s own career, standing by her during her own legal battles (including a highly publicised battle against one of the UK’s largest retailers).
Dids Macdonald OBE., Co-founder and CEO of ACID, said,” Rachel and the team at Make it in Design are exemplars of encouragement, imagination, reinvention and collaboration of all things which make design such an exciting sector to work within. Make it in Design are champions of IP respect, ethics and compliance and we so value the formalisation of our relationship.”
Of the partnership Rachael, Co-founder of Make it in Design, says, “I’m absolutely delighted to be partnering with ACID (Anti Copying in Design) to offer this essential support to designers and artists. ACID has been instrumental in helping me protect my own designs, and I am indebted to the team for their expertise and support, which got me through one of the toughest experiences in my career.”
About ACID (Anti-Copying in Design) acid.uk.com
ACID is the UK’s leading design and intellectual property campaigning organisation. We are a forward-thinking trade association for designers and manufacturers; a not-for-profit organisation funded by membership fees. Our aim is to provide cost effective tips, advice, and guidelines to help our members protect their intellectual property to achieve growth through a proactive IP strategy.
To retain the integrity of our membership, all potential members must be designers or have a design capability and the majority of their products must be designed either in-house or by commissioned designers. We also welcome manufacturers to join ACID who have entered into license agreements with freelance designers in which the intellectual property rights are assigned to the manufacturer.
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About Make it in Design makeitindesign.com
Make It in Design is home to the longest running online design school in the world. Our expert team of tutors, with decades of industry experience between them, offer practical and inspiring courses, portfolio reviews and career advice.
We help artists and designers learn how to design digitally in Adobe, hone their drawing skills, develop commercial portfolios, and build thriving creative careers.
Our alumni have gone on to win awards, set up their own design studios and labels, landed major design gigs with household brand names and built careers they love. They have described our courses as “pivotal in making the leap to becoming a professional designer”, “an amazing experience”, “such a great investment” and “endlessly inspiring.”
Make it in Design has helped more than 30,000 designers in 100+ countries to develop their design skills, break into the industry and make life-changing moves.
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