Business plans are hard
Does "I am wicked cool" count as a unique selling point?
Those of you who know me well understand how much I hate designers who steal. (Actually, I've probably ranted about this before). I'm all for parody, homage, inspiration etc., but you need to give credit for these things to work. Sometimes it's tough if you are working for a client who wants something that already exists, but when you are making your own stuff, then there's no real excuse (and coincidence only goes so far). Boing Boing have posted a link to a cool site which shows David and Goliath t-shirts (which are all over the place at the moment and are probably uber-rich by now) next to similar, older designs. Check it out here before it gets pulled (the guys already had a letter from lawyers). Boing boing also have lots of comic related items items up today, including Scott McCloud, banning Comic Sans (Yay!),John K.,Jack Chick and underwear perverts. They also mention Aranzi Aronzo, who I've been telling people about for years and years, not that anyone has listened (except for Andy, Sheriff and Emma), and now I bet they're all super cool because they've been mentioned on boing boing. They've been making lovely toys and doing photo stories with them for a really long time, way before it was cool to do it on Flickr and way before that stupid car commercial. Credit where credit's due! (I guess that's todays motto)