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Five for Friday: 12.26.2008

Obama logos that weren’t chosen Interesting look into the process that created the highly-recognizable Obama Campaign logo. Design contest debate Steve Douglas, founder of The Logo Factory, responds to some issues brought u[ about the legitimacy of logo design contests. On the other side of the ring, George Ryan, who made the original post Steve…

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Five Questions for Kristen Harris, Portfolio Creative Staffing

This is the kick-off of what hopes to be a regular series of short interviews with other professionals regarding a variety of topics. For the first one, I start with a person I’ve know for a number of years, Kristen Harris of Portfolio Staffing. Kristen Harris is the co-founder and Director of Associate Services for…

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Inspired or Stolen?

The online design community has been in an uproar this week (and rightly so) over the apparent thievery of Dan Cederholm’s logo design for his design studio, Simplebits. There are several opinions on the matter, and I felt compelled to share mine. Innocent coincidence? Was the Simplebits logo stolen, or was it pure coincidence that…