CHRISTOPHER DOMBRES
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This experiment within public domain resources is now achieved (December 2021), I won't be posting any more new material.
I regularly update the information under the photos, the last update was in May 2025. This graphic diary will stay accessible as long as possible. Born in 1968, I believe I am representative of what you call Generation X. I come from a middle-class, liberal Christian background. I am dyslexic.
I first opened this account to display and promote my personal artwork as an illustrator in a chronological order. Today, most of the "bricolages" are available via Creative Commons licensing to provide quality images for online resources.
The drawings on display span more than thirty years of work (1989–2021). This may be useful for someone looking to learn more about the evolution of graphic design over that time. I always questioned consumerism, but I deeply believed in globalization, United Colors of Benetton® style. With age, I became more tolerant of religion. I dropped some of the most substantial of my commissioned jobs, a large part is still under copyright. Whenever I find them, I include links utilizing my illustrations. I do not support the information found through those links. I never get in contact or interfere with people using the public domain work I produced. As of 2020, nearly all the images left on Wikimedia have been removed for different reasons, among them, unwanted self-promotion, irrelevant personal artwork, or copyright violation. I've also been accused of license laundering, aka Flickr washing“. The Battle of Copyright illustration has almost disappeared from the web since its peak utilization in March 2017, thanks to Google’s ‘Project Owl’. I exceptionally contacted the scholars, journalists, and institutions that had used this design in the past to inform them of the situation. In 2021 copyright doesn't seem to be an issue anymore.
Should access to information be a commodity to be sold and controlled by copyright holders, or is it a civil right for all citizens ?
I believe a new moral duty is on its way and will change the world as we know it. We can't pay back those who came before us for everything we have taken from them, so we have the ethical obligation to pass our shared knowledge freely to the next generation. If the battle of copyright was lost, the war of intellectual property is still ongoing.
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- JoinedMarch 2010
- OccupationIllustrator
- HometownSETE
- Current citySETE
- CountryFrance
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