Intellectual property: what a term! It’s sometimes hard to prove that you imagined something before someone else did, although examples such as this appear to be clear cut.
This is the cover of the October issue of Social Education, one of the magazines that I design and produce. I designed this cover to illustrate an article from the National Archives on campaign memorabilia.
Then, last week in Baltimore, I picked up an educational catalog from one of the exhibitors at our national teacher’s conference. Compare this catalog cover with my cover, and tell me if their designer should have been a little more… “independently creative”.
I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?
