Stealing Cliches

STEALING CLICHES

 

Dear LoveLiza,

Whats the difference between using a cliché idea or stealing an idea, as both ideas have been done before?

Junior, Madrid

 

Dear Junior,

Stealing is using someone else’s good idea in a bad way. A cliché is using someone else’s bad idea in a good way.

LoveLiza

Illegal Fonts

ILLEGAL FONTS

 

Dear LoveLiza,

All the fonts I have, I either downloaded illegally or copied from friends or previous companies I have worked for. Do you think its a problem if I use them?

Anonymous

 

Dear Anonymous,

If your mission as a designer is to ensure that type designers are malnutritioned and badly dressed, then there is no problem.

LoveLiza

Pen Pal

PEN PAL

 

Dear LoveLiza,

I keep dropping the studio pens in my bag, it has become a sort of automated action. To my surprise I seem to have acquired a large amount over time without even noticing. Is it OK to steal the studio pens, if I am not actually conscious of doing it?

Designer, London

 

Dear Pen Pal,

I hope you are not referring to Wacom pens?

LoveLiza