Artefact Design
Principal: Tanya Symons Bredehoft
Environmental Graphics
Concept development
Interpretive planning
Wayfinding
Exhibit Design
Concept development
Interpretive planning
Production consultation
Graphic Design
Identity
Illustration
Information
Interface Design
Utility and application UI
Artefact Design is an interpretive design studio.
Our staff and collaborative colleagues are design, information, technical, and education professionals. We provide planning and design services for environmental graphics, exhibits, graphic design, and user interface design.
We are committed to bringing a thoughtful, integrated and engaging experience to every project. We use our skills and our extensive experience working with museums, aquariums, public agencies, and private industry, to find new solutions to the challenges which arise in the design and development of public communication.
Tanya Symons Bredehoft is the principal of Artefact Design. She is a designer with 15 years in the interpretive design business. George Spicer Bredehoft is an artist. He provides Artefact with behind-the-scenes Macintosh software and hardware support as well as Photoshop and QuickTime expertise. Tanya and George have a very small worm ranch in their front yard.
Artefact Design is based in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, a small community in coastal north county San Diego, California.
Who owns the copyright to this site and the content?
That would be us, Tanya Symons Bredehoft (tsb) and/or George Spicer Bredehoft (gsb). All rights to all our original images and words are reserved by us.
The limited use license for all legal uses of the images and/or words which are viewed on or obtained from this site is detailed here.
Occasionally there may be images, sounds, and/or words posted to this site which are the works of others. These works will be duly attributed and tagged with the appropriate copyright notice and, when possible, linked to the creator of the works.
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What are the basic uses for content on this site?
View them, download them, enjoy them, and post them - UNMODIFIED - to your own site as long as the images are indeed unmodified, are linked to the home page of our site, are properly credited to us, and include the proper copyright info.
Please do not directly link a tag on your site to an image or page as the address is likely to change.
For a review of the details of the limited license one has agreed to by entering this site click here.
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Why are there limits on the use of these images and words?
A good question and the answer to which is found in the balancing of multiple issues.
First is that we want to share our work with prospective clients as well as any others who may appreciate it.
Second is that we have spent our lives-to-date learning how to create these works. Creating images and words - conveying thoughts and ideas - is our livelyhood.
Third is that we feel it is less-than-fair for people to take shortcuts at other's expense and/or to claim credit for that which is not theirs. See point two.
Fourth is that if we do not make an effort to protect the rights to what we have created, we will have, by the lack of such action, diminished the right to call our creations ours.
Fifth is, just like everyone else in the world, we need to eat and a place to live. These works are central to our generating an income. If someone takes them, calls them their own, and/or uses them in a fashion other than what is allowed in the licences we grant, that someone is jeopardizing our livelihood and is therefore endangering our lives.
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What will we do to protect our copyright?
Protecting our works starts with establishing the limited licenses for their use. These licenses set what we believe to be reasonable and reasonably enforceable usage guidelines.
In terms of determining what is a non-licensed use...
As an example, since we do not license the vast majority of our work for other's content-creation purposes, when an image of ours shows up in, or as part of, someone's work, it is rather easy to deem the use as being non-licensed.
For details of the limited licenses, click here..
It is our hope and intention, that with these reasonable guidelines, which are easy to abide, people will treat us reasonably and not steal our livelihood.
The far shorter answer is... we will do whatever it takes.
:-)
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Site Content License
Anyone visiting, viewing, or downloading data or files from this site (the user) attests that they have read, do understand, and fully agree to the following...
This site, including all of the images, sounds, and words (the works) are the copyrighted property of Tanya Symons Bredehoft (tsb) and/or George Spicer Bredehoft (gsb) with all rights reserved (unless otherwise attributed).
There are NO LEGAL COMMERCIAL USEs of the works which are granted to the user by either tsb or gsb, when the user visits, views, or downloads any page or the works published here by tsb and gsb.
There are only three explicit and/or implied rights which are granted to the user when accessing the works on this site...
The first legal use of the works is to view the works as they are displayed unmodified on the user's screen.
The second legal use of the works is to enjoy (or not) the viewing of the works as they are displayed, unmodified, on the user's screen.
The third legal use of the works is the posting, along with any and all included URLs, claims, attributions, and copyright information, of the works as they exist - UNMODIFIED - to another's web site for the primary purpose of directing others to this site.
There are no other rights or obligations offered, nor other legal uses of the works which are granted, by either tsb or gsb to the user, by the sole act of the user viewing, accessing, downloading, or "possessing" the works which were created by tsb and/or gsb and/or that which reside on this site.
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Other Use License
The following text represents the core of our original creative content license which is part of all of our contracts for client projects...
All original creative content (the work) - which was created by Tanya Symons Bredehoft (tsb) and/or George Spicer Bredehoft (gsb), for use in theProjectName (the project) produced for theClientName (the client) - remains the copyrighted property of tsb and/or gsb with all rights reserved.
Included in the cost for services, the client is purchasing the right to use the work exclusively and specifically in accordance with the terms set forth in this license and the enclosing services agreement.
When contracting and paying for the project, the client is granted the right to use and/or display the work as it exists - unmodified - on the original medium and in the original context of the project.
There are absolutely NO OTHER LEGAL COMMERCIAL USEs of the work - other than the specific case called for in the original context of the project - which are granted to the user by either tsb or gsb, when the client contracts and pays for a project service (the project) and which was performed by tsb and/or gsb.
There are no other rights or obligations offered, nor other legal use of the work which is granted, by either tsb or gsb to the client, by the sole act contracting and paying for the project.
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