Design Work Life: Cataloging Inspiration Daily

Right. Personally I was really impressed with the for­mal qual­i­ties of the design, so I the typos didn’t imme­di­ately catch my atten­tion. They could be the result of some sort of trans­la­tion issue. Paul is a stu­dent in Poland.

I could agree this is cer­tainly Sagmeister-inspired, but I think call­ing it a “rip-off” is a lit­tle harsh. Is any­thing design that’s ever writ­ten on the body now going to be deemed pla­gia­rized? It’s an info­graphic about tat­toos so it makes per­fect sense that it’s han­dled in this way, and while the con­cept is the same the style, con­tent and exe­cu­tion is com­pletely dif­fer­ent. Everyone has their own unique thresh­old of where they think some­thing veers from inspi­ra­tion into imi­ta­tion, so I know the answer isn’t black and white. But for me, they are dif­fer­ent enough that I wouldn’t clas­sify it as a rip-off, and aside from the spelling errors, I think it’s pretty well done.