“We borrow ideas and imitate designs all the time, so when we lift a vintage image to use in our own projects, is that stealing? It, err, depends, says Gene Gable (and the law). In this installment: Gene admits to graphic thievery, or what he learned from Joe Wieder.” See also WHEN U.S. WORKS PASS INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

“What’s it like to work at your company? Is anything beyond 8 hours a Big Exception, or does leaving at 5 PM evoke the ‘working a half-day again?’ crack… In all my various jobs, from independent contractor to start-up employee to one of the thousands at the big monolithic tech company, I’ve worked in every conceivable tech scenario. But the worst are the ones that become slaves to their clients–often driven by the fear of losing one. And fear leads to underbidding. And underbidding leads to… pulling all-nighters to make an impossible deadline on too few resources.”

“…i’ve created this site for students to be pro-active about their education, it would also be great to develop some visual projects inline with this idea. Any thoughts?”

“On the heels of their first short feature film debut, Coudal Partners talks with Designorati about the piece, its intentions, and the firms overall feelings towards self-promotion. Earlier this week, Coudal Partners released Copy Goes Here, a short film about the life of a Copywriter as he joins a small Graphic Design studio and then soon realizes he is the only one who can read the copy he creates. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Delahoyde, Copywriter for Coudal Partners.”

“Most people who have bought any musical recordings over the past 60 years might have assumed they always came in covers, or sleeves, or jackets, that featured a colorful graphic designed to enhance the lure of the music. They didn’t. Album covers had to be invented. This was a task that largely fell to a Brooklyn kid named Alex Steinweiss.”

“I recently ran across a 1997 journal entry that read, ‘If you think you have an original idea, stop reading or risk discovering otherwise.’ Now, it appears, there is more we should avoid.”

Really useful: “‘I want to…’ or ‘I need to’ or ‘How do I?’ These are all questions we all ask all the time. This is a small collection of resources that will help to answer those questions. It is not complete, nor will it ever be. I will be adding to this on a regular basis, so feel free to bookmark it and come back and visit.”

“A virtual road trip through the country shows their varied efforts to lure tourists with interesting branding through their flag, logo, and license plates.”

“The pages below show prints I made from processing film I found in old cameras. In many cases the exposed films were over fifty years old. You are seeing them for the first time as they were lost by the photographers that took these images.”

“sparklines are ‘intense, simple, word-like graphics’ so named by information design guru Edward Tufte. in fact, the infosthetics website now features two small sparkline diagrams that are updated hourly, showing data grouped by day over a period of about two months. one sparkline shows live web statistics grabbed from my AWStats log file analyzer files, the other depicts the amount of words used in the infosthetics daily posts.”

“…So take a long, last look at Saul Bass’s finest moment. AT&T will live on, but its logo is about to disappear. American Telephone & Telegraph was founded in 1885 as a subsidiary of Alexander Graham Bell’s Bell Telephone Company to create a long-distance network for Bell’s local operating companies…”

“Advertisers wanting to reach an influential and loyal group of web publishers, writers, developers, editors, reporters and bloggers can now buy an ad that runs across three sites: A List Apart, Signal vs. Noise (this site), and Coudal. There are only five ad spots per month across the entire network so there’s very limited availability but very high visibility.”