Jim Niehues Bonus Question!

Yet another thing I forgot…the interview that keeps on giving!

I remember seeing this snowboarding jacket from the company DC a while ago and wondering if it actually featured your map work, or just borrowed from the style. I remember it having a signature of your name, but not in the same block letters that are your trademark. Any thoughts on your work being used in this way?

The DC image was painted using the same color palette as other trail map illustrations.  They have come in with the computer and “stylized” it.  Usually I will call the client and insist that they remove my signature from it since it is NOT any longer my work.  I have not in this case since it is an obvious computer-altered image and the audience realizes that it is.   Many other cases come up when a resort decides to make the winter trail map into a summer view and it is not so clear that tampering is involved.  Then I will ask them to take my name off.