Creative Collaborator Mugs

'This one writes some fine lyrics, and the other one has composed some beautiful music, but they just done't seem to hit it off as collaborators.'

'Okay, let's go over this again: You tell me your great ideas, I repeat them back to you, then you tell me I have a great idea and I get all the credit for it!'

"It's those creative types you ought to be checking on."

Team Cat

"Dave, we need to talk about office props and work productivity."

'I'll recommend your cartoons if you recommend mine.'

'If you do not stop smudging, I'm getting a new cartoonist.'

Brainstorming

"You can build it with me, but you can't wreck it with me."

"So when my dad said I couldn't have a dog..."

A sign that reads "ART...and plenty of it!" hangs above the entrance to a museum.

"I'm leaving. It's just way too much collaborating."

'I love these afternoon jam sessions.'

Teamwork: Innovation, Success, Evaluation, Development, Growth, Solution, Progess, Market.

"Tonight the part normally played by the audience will be played by actors playing the part of the audience."

Using teamwork to paint a lamppost.

Thanks for being such a fabulous desk partner!

"I tried bouncing a few ideas off Bob but they bounced back."

"Alexander Bell? Louis Daguerre here - I have an idea that may enhance your telephone invention...!"

"Have a great day, dad and don't try to be a hero."

"Oh Gary, I wish you could see this."

Art Gallery: All my own work.

Working Together

"You act like you've never worked with an art director before."

"Rather than plagiarism. . . I'd like to think of myself as a co-author!"

An artist paints a tree using a nude model.

Duo for Flute and Hobo

'I understand that the two of you had a rather successful collaboration on our new sex manual!'

'It's our new assembly line. When the person at the end of the line has an idea, he puts it on the conveyor belt, and as it passes each of us, we mull it over and try to add to it.'

Architects and engineers arms clasping same pencil to write the 'master plan'

Manufacturer using the 'Littleville web site.'

"The funny thing is that when I invited you to contribute to the anthology. I never expected you to accept."

Joe and Joe, synchronized thinkers.

"Then Marc from our creative team tells the client to 'like it or lump it' – can you believe that?!"

'We like to bring together people from radically different fields and wait for the friction to produce heat, light and magic. Sometimes it takes a while.'