I found a recent post on Toni’s blog to be very informative and it brought up some strong valid points about professional designers having the same inspiration sources. Jacob Cass was noted as having designed a similar logo to a previous 2 year old design. Regardless of whether he was inspired by it or not, Toni asks some simple important questions I think designers need to answer;

are designers so much alike that we can’t seem to come up with new concepts? Are we all so influenced by the same sources of inspiration? or are we now taking advantage of our high profiles and using that to bend the rules?

- Toni Z

Good read, nice find, eye opening questions.