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hey, aiga has their Symbol Signs (passenger/pedestrian) symbol set that they produced for the us dept of transporation available for d/l in eps and gif format for free. schweet. free being way cheaper than the $150 ultimate symbols is charging (although they do have a bunch of other stuff they throw in…) segd charges $75 for just the symbol signs. the only crappy thing about the symbol signs is that there’s no one big archive. what’s neat though is that aiga is actually really adding content onto their pages.

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my design prof had mentioned this the other week in class: California Illustrator Wins Tax Victory in State’s High Court

“Although the justices disagreed on some issues,” Preston’s attorney, Nicholas Blonder, commented, “all seven concluded that payments received by an artist for the licensing of a copyright interest are not subject to sales or use tax. This effectively ends the Board’s long-standing practice of applying tax to all royalties received by an artist.”

“The state got their head handed to them in a big way,” said attorney Eric Miethke, California counsel for the Graphic Artists Guild and a coauthor of the amicus curiae brief filed in the case. “Guild members should feel vindicated by the Court’s ruling. We’ve been saying all along that tax should not be applied to the copyright — that at most only the rental value of the disk should be taxed — which is an infinitesimal amount.”