A high-end GTA tattoo studio is apologizing after a New Zealand-based illustrator called it out on social media for copying her work in promotional material used online and on storefronts at two local malls. Toronto tattoo artist Tristen Zhang, a co-founder of studio Chronic Ink, has apologized to New Zealand-based illustrator Jiayue Wu after she accused him of copying one of her artworks, left, in signs and online images, right, used to promote the studio. “No one at Chronic Ink and none of the other artists were aware of the situation until yesterday. “At Chronic Ink we pride ourselves on being a custom tattoo studio, and this isolated incident with Tristen Zhang reflects neither the way we work or our values as artists,” it wrote. Chronic Ink has several locations in the GTA and Vancouver.

Source: thestar May 09, 2019 16:38 UTC