There are endless posts out there about how to deal with tough, cheap, ignorant or just plain bad clients, but are they really the hardest people to please? Try and remember the design process of your last personal project and you’ll probably understand what I mean.

Alex Gould (of Rhyme With Orange Creative) wrote a note on Facebook late last night while working on some work for himself. It was a brief note, but brought up some great points. Branding for yourself calls for your most creative ideas, ideas which can sometimes take months to come up with. This got me thinking about another design anomaly.

People in the creative industry are always looking for something new and fresh. With so many designers out there now, how many new concepts can we come up with? Will there ever come a point where there are no ideas left when wanting to design a simple yet powerful logo?

David Airey has posted a fantastic comment by one of his readers, Douglas Bonneville, about how logos might be viewed as the fossil fuel of the design industry. Is there a limit on our creativity? Will different trends be the root of new and innovative ideas? Take a look at Logos: the fossil fuel of design? and to read more about it, or leave your comment below.