Copyright

Copyright
As soon as you create something, it's your property. You don't need to register it, others will need written permission in order to use your work.
If you're self employed you also own your work unless in your contract with a client it states they have ownership.

Public Domain 
Until 70 years after death the work still belongs to you, otherwise the work is open to use by the public domain

Reproduction Rights
You own both he copyright and the rights to reproduce your work

Licensing
In some instances you may be asked to license your work i.e a stick illustration
You will gain a fee each time your image is used, you can limit the license to single use so you can get paid extra for use on printed material, exhibitions and so on.

Sound and music can also be protected: phonographic copyright looks like this:

Leeza Pritychenko- Graphic Designer

Leeza Pritychenko

Pondering through It's Nice That I found Graphic artist Leeza Pritychenko, the feature was due to her new release 'HOW TO STOP BEING HUMAN: Guidelines for becoming a squirrel'

I found this work particularly fascinating: Welcome to the desert of the real 

Ugly and overused fonts can also be used non-ironically or can they?

Hero's journey 

Her work challenges use of typically clashing use of typography especially in 'Ugly and overused fonts can also be used non-ironically or can they?' which I love, the purposeful 'bad design' cliches of having every line in a different typeface is aesthetically pleasing when pushed like this and reminds me of the project I did last year 'Object', when incorporating a vaporwave aesthetic.

I draw inspiration from her fusion of old school design with her publication designs and digitally rich garish aesthetic of other pieces of work.