Milton Glaser on Shepard Fairey & Plagiarism

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…But some in the design community feel the “by” in that first sentence is in question, since many of Fairey’s images are based on preexisting photos and illustrations. And this week the issue exploded: The Associate Press accused him of copyright infringement for his ubiquitous blue-and-red Obama poster–which they claim was based on an AP photo—and Fairey retained Anthony Falzone, a lawyer and executive director of Stanford’s Fair Use Project. Milton Glaser wades into the fray.

Read it at Print Magazine

drop. dead. gorgeous.

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Studio On Fire’s stunning letterpress and design blog. Drop dead gorgeous letterpress pieces that make me giddy like a schoolgirl.

enough said.

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Just use your hands.

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Michael Bierut in the Times

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Michael Bierut in the Sunday NYTimes.

It’s all in the details

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Beautiful, detailed illustrations by artist Lorenzo Petrantoni.

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You Suck at Photoshop

The ‘You Suck at Photoshop’ tutorial series (two complete seasons thus far) are some of the funniest videos on the net, and you’ll actually learn some photoshop trickery too!

Check out Episode 2 above, and the rest at My Damn Channel. Be sure to have a free hour or two, because they are addicting.

Gorgeous (affordable) coffee table

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It wouldn’t work in my livingroom – but this is a slick coffee table for an even slicker price of $199 over at Shabby Chic.

(seen @ decor8)

Did it get hit by two shipping trucks?

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The Yellow and Roadway merger to YRC paves the way as an early contender for worst logo redesign of 2009.

I’m sad to see the Yellow logo go. I always got a bit of a chuckle from seeing an orange Yellow logo. Also sad to see Roadway go. The simple trucks from each company are gonna get this bastard emblem on it instead. Yay for more visual pollution.

Sad sad.

(image credit: UnderConsideration)