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"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 18:45:28 on Tue, 31 Oct 2017,
Peter Able remarked:

This is overt plagiarism.

"the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them
off
as one's own" where 'draws on the pioneering information design work of
Harry Beck' comprehensively refutes that.


and who wrote that quotation?


David Rumsey's website..


Precisely.



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In message , at 17:54:12 on Wed, 1 Nov 2017,
Peter Able remarked:

This is overt plagiarism.

"the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing
them off as one's own" where 'draws on the pioneering information
design work of Harry Beck' comprehensively refutes that.

and who wrote that quotation?


David Rumsey's website..


Precisely.


Do you have any evidence the author was passing it off as their own?
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er.org, at 11:21:41 on Mon, 30 Oct 2017, Recliner
remarked:

I'd expect them to exist in various degrees of hand-drawn sophistication
before being productionised by an artist rather than a designer.

Perhaps recliner can tell us if this map was ever a public document
circulated by the airline.


I don't know, as I just spotted it on Twitter.


Of course, one explanation is that it's a draft commissioned as part of
the process of producing the Maholoy-Nagy poster (which contains a
substantial geographic representation of the routes, as well as the Beck
insert).

The mileage numbers of the Beck map won't necessarily have been easy to
research independently, so perhaps he was a subcontractor for the bigger
project.

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