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 Post subject: Making the simple seem complicated
PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 1:02 pm 
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I came across a moderately interesting thread about "visual plagiarism."<p>I had to laugh because there's only so many ways to lay out a page. <p>Note to Visual Editors.com: "No offense intended."


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 Post subject: Re: Making the simple seem complicated
PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:16 pm 
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Are these people serious?<p>Maybe not.<p>Say I'm making a design hire ... and someone hands me a stack of clips full of blatant NPD rip-offs (one of which, flatteringly enough, is of my work) ... It's immediately obvious to me because I'm monitoring NPD, and I'm not hiring that person. <p>(snip)<p>So while it happens, and annoys us when it does, it's not something that would seem to be very productive, from a career standpoint, for the visual plagiarist out there.<p>So it's annoyingly flattering? And it's damned productive from a career standpoint if a designer gives a whit about making deadlines.


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 Post subject: Re: Making the simple seem complicated
PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:35 pm 
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So, you guys use the *rectangular* paper, eh? Where'd you get *that* idea?


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 Post subject: Re: Making the simple seem complicated
PostPosted: Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:15 am 
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Blanp, thanks for a much needed laugh.


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