Comments on: When logos look alike

By: Els

Els — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:15:09 +0000

The chemistry company Phenomenex’s logo is even more similar to the (Anton Stankowski) Stadt Bruhl logo!

By: Lucy

Lucy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:45:20 +0000

How wonderful that I was just able to forward this article to a client, due to recent similarities between a recent identity I developed for them and another brand (as with entries above – admittedly reflecting a completely different sector)

On that note – Edinburgh’s Scottish Gallery identity is a very close bedfellow of the Sumpter & Gonzalez LLP and Stylegala logos!

By: Chinmay Deo

Chinmay Deo — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:16:15 +0000

I don’t know if someone has brought this up before. Please excuse me if someone has.
You said that logo designers are influenced by similar shapes,similar ideas etc.
Yet in the comparisons that you’ve posted, the two companies/organizations have absolutely NOTHING to do with each other.For example:Applied Materials & Planned Parenthood.
How would you explain this?

By: David L. Campbell

David L. Campbell — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:57:33 +0000

The Los Angeles Clippers were once the San Diego Clippers, and had a royal blue and orange graphic that would have been great for a nautical museum, but that had nothing to do with basketball. When the team switched to the current symbol, I was shocked that the NBA let it do such a blatant knockoff of the Lakers iconic logo, with its identical italicized font and enlarged first letter. The only significant difference (besides the team colors) was the word “San Diego” instead of “Los Angeles.”

I figured that after they moved from S.D. to L.A., the Lakers would say “enough’s enough.” But I guess the legendary franchise with its full roster of Basketball Hall of Famers figured nobody would ever confuse the hapless Clippers with them.

So far, they’ve been right.

By: clare

clare — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:29:05 +0000

Wow, it can happen and is bound to happen with the amount of brands and the saturation of design. Interesting… I do wonder how many of the above where directly taken from the above source and how many were genuine ‘wow we did the same thing’ moments?!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:18:08 +0000

Hey David… check this out, talk about doing a “double-take”: http://www.mutualmobile.com/ and http://www.squarespace.com/

Which one do you like better?

By: 29 Pixels

29 Pixels — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:13:22 +0000

Back in 2002 I created a HIV Positive logo t-shirt. That same year I ran into a women from South Africa who happened to be wearing an HIV POSITIVE shirt. I learned that back in 1999 a HIV POSITIVE campaign was started in Africa.

Then of course Annie Lennox wore her version of the t-shirt and that definitely made the design infamous.

I guess in this case these logos are about awareness from organizations not necessarily companies competing.

By: dragon

dragon — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:39:19 +0000

the duo “sinarmas and airbus” are not that similar compared to the duo “airbus and hotspring”
http://www.hotspring.fr/htm_fra/getpage.asp?i=1

By: Brian Piper

Brian Piper — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:49:52 +0000

Hi David, always appreciate your blog posts! You must have seen this then on the same subject?

http://www.rockpaperink.com/content/column.php?id=88

A great new site by the way!

Cheers,
Brian

By: Goodby Silverstein & Partners | Logo Design Love

Goodby Silverstein & Partners | Logo Design Love — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:07:34 +0000

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