Images and credits

Story illustrations

Each story carries an original drawing made at the picture desk under Noor Haddad, Illustrations Director. The drawings are flat editorial illustrations in the paper's house style, with a palette anchored on the story's beat. They are made for the story from a written brief, not adapted from anyone else's photograph or artwork. A drawing never depicts a real or identifiable person, never reproduces a brand's logo, and never presents a named property as though it were a photograph of that property; where a story concerns a real company or place, the picture shows the idea, the object or the kind of place, not the thing itself.

Every drawing is reviewed and approved by Noor Haddad before it runs, against a shared picture-desk standard used across our titles: the picture must be on the story, in the house style, and free of stray text or lettering, a logo, a real face, and the AI ‘sparkle’ — the glitter and floating specks the image models like to add — that the paper does not publish. A drawing that fails is redrawn with the desk's corrections. Every published picture is also checked against the paper's recent drawings so the desk never runs a near-copy of an earlier one.

The scene library

Stories filed before the picture desk opened in September 2026 are illustrated from a library of twenty-five studio scene pictures (houses, apartments, lobbies, pools, streets) made for the paper. They are generic by design and show no real property. They are being replaced with story-specific drawings over time.

Masthead portraits

The portraits on the desk page are studio portraits made for the paper in a single consistent style.

The wordmark and marks

The Stay Gazette wordmark and icon are the paper's own. The Cavmir wordmark in the footer is used with permission of Trousdale Digital Technologies LLC, the publisher. Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and other names that appear in stories are trademarks of their owners and appear only in editorial reference.

The standing audit

The picture desk keeps a register of every image the paper has published and checks the site regularly for broken, duplicated, over-used or uncredited pictures. Because the paper uses only its own images, the register has no third-party licences to track; if that ever changes, the credit for any licensed picture will be rendered on the page where it appears, with the author and the licence.

Reusing our pictures

The illustrations are © Trousdale Digital Technologies LLC. Publications wishing to reproduce one should email dan@cavmir.com; a credit to Stay Gazette and a link are the usual terms.

Concerns

If you believe a picture on this site infringes a right of yours, email dan@cavmir.com with the page address and the picture concerned. We review every notice and respond within five business days.