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I found the AirBnB logo in Trademarks and Symbols of the World published in 1988

70 points by tylermauthe 11y ago

pentestercrab 11y ago
High resolution version for comparison can be found here [1] and airbnb logo over here [2]. 1: http://www.graphis.com/logos/cc1c717c-4b40-11e2-ae70-f23c91dffdec/ http://www.graphis.com/logos/cc1c717c-4b40-11e2-ae70-f23c91d... 2: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Airbnb_Logo_B%C3%A9lo.svg/1280px-Airbnb_Logo_B%C3%A9lo.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Ai...
abrookewood 11y ago
Did the Azuma one expire? Or did the company go out of business?
- toyg 11y ago
  More likely nobody knew of it. It's the sort of design treatment of a A that multiple people could come up with it independently.
jitl 11y ago
This is an outrage
amrrs 11y ago
Did people forget Automation Everywhere Logo? http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-07-17/0717_airbnb_630_INLINE.jpg http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-07-17/0717_airbnb_630_INLINE....
fenomas 11y ago
So last month it was the Tokyo Olympics emblem[1], two days ago it was Google's new logo[2], and today it's this. Is the world ever going to come to grips with the fact that many tens of thousands of thousands of logos and trademarks are registered each year [3], and it's fairly inevitable that some of them will look alike? [1] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=tokyo+olympics+theatre+de+liege https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=tokyo+olympics+thea... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10176974 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10176974 [3] Or a lot more, I'm just going from this: https://oami.europa.eu/tunnel-web/secure/webdav/guest/document_library/AnnualReport/2013/content/en/trademarks.html https://oami.europa.eu/tunnel-web/secure/webdav/guest/docume...
- wyldfire 11y ago
  > Is the world ever going to come to grips with the fact that many tens of thousands of thousands of logos and trademarks are registered each year [3], and it's fairly inevitable that some of them will look alike? "This logo was designed by Akisato Ueda for a Japanese drive-in called Azuma in 1975." So, not a big deal methinks. US Code calls for the standard to be confusingly similar and in the same industry.

70 points by tylermauthe 11y ago

High resolution version for comparison can be found here [1] and airbnb logo over here [2]. 1: http://www.graphis.com/logos/cc1c717c-4b40-11e2-ae70-f23c91dffdec/ http://www.graphis.com/logos/cc1c717c-4b40-11e2-ae70-f23c91d... 2: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Airbnb_Logo_B%C3%A9lo.svg/1280px-Airbnb_Logo_B%C3%A9lo.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Ai...

abrookewood 11y ago

Did the Azuma one expire? Or did the company go out of business?

toyg 11y ago
More likely nobody knew of it. It's the sort of design treatment of a A that multiple people could come up with it independently.

jitl 11y ago

This is an outrage

amrrs 11y ago

Did people forget Automation Everywhere Logo? http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-07-17/0717_airbnb_630_INLINE.jpg http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-07-17/0717_airbnb_630_INLINE....

fenomas 11y ago

So last month it was the Tokyo Olympics emblem[1], two days ago it was Google's new logo[2], and today it's this. Is the world ever going to come to grips with the fact that many tens of thousands of thousands of logos and trademarks are registered each year [3], and it's fairly inevitable that some of them will look alike? [1] https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=tokyo+olympics+theatre+de+liege https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=tokyo+olympics+thea... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10176974 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10176974 [3] Or a lot more, I'm just going from this: https://oami.europa.eu/tunnel-web/secure/webdav/guest/document_library/AnnualReport/2013/content/en/trademarks.html https://oami.europa.eu/tunnel-web/secure/webdav/guest/docume...

wyldfire 11y ago
> Is the world ever going to come to grips with the fact that many tens of thousands of thousands of logos and trademarks are registered each year [3], and it's fairly inevitable that some of them will look alike? "This logo was designed by Akisato Ueda for a Japanese drive-in called Azuma in 1975." So, not a big deal methinks. US Code calls for the standard to be confusingly similar and in the same industry.