Chinese Arts Professor Awarded With ‘Oscar’ of Design Caught Plagiarizing

Chinese Arts Professor Awarded With ‘Oscar’ of Design Caught Plagiarizing
A comparison between Chinese arts professor Fan Yu's Red Dot-award-winning work (left), and British illustrator Russell Cobb's 2011 work, "New Ideas II" (right). After plagiarism claims surfaced online, Fan's award was revoked. Screenshot via Oriental Daily News
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A Chinese arts professor who was awarded a prestigious international prize for design has been exposed to have plagiarized the winning material, according to a report by Hong Kong’s Oriental Daily News.
In October 2017, associate professor at Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Fan Yu, won a “Red Dot: Best of the Best” and a “Red Dot” award for communication design, for two poster series titled “Open Air Cinema National Museum” and “Brain Art Museum,” respectively.
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Annie Wu joined the full-time staff at the Epoch Times in July 2014. That year, she won a first-place award from the New York Press Association for best spot news coverage. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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